Articles tagged as "risk"
Seeking a bridge for South Africa’s troubled waters
As South Africans breathe a sigh of relief that load shedding has tailed off, water risks have come to the fore. Multiple provinces are grappling with...
Beyond our borders: A case for investing offshore
Investing offshore should always form part of your long-term diversification strategy. South Africa comprises about 0.3% of the world’s market capitalisation...
Is South Africa winning the inflation battle?
Following the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) aggressive near-two-year interest rate hiking cycle, headline inflation in South Africa seems to be getting...
Three golden rules for achieving long-term, real investment returns
Whether you are accumulating capital for retirement, school or university expenses for your children or simply trying to ensure that you have money saved for...
How to overcome the fear of losing money
Research shows that our brains are hardwired to avoid loss. This behavioural bias can often drive us to make irrational decisions, especially when it comes t...
Investment update: How to invest in a changing world
At Allan Gray we are bottom-up investors, but we want to be on the right side of long-term trends, particularly at secular turning points. During the recent...
Q&A: Allan Gray and Orbis investment update
After an eventful year, many investors are feeling uncertain about how to position their portfolios to fare well in 2023. At the recent Allan Gray and Orbis...
Investing – risky business?
Understanding your investments, and the risks you may face when investing, can go a long way towards helping you successfully navigate trying times. Lydia...
How to invest in an inflationary, energy-short and increasingly divided world
At Allan Gray, we are bottom-up investors, but we want to be on the right side of long-term trends, particularly at secular turning points. One way is to...
Orbis Global Equity: The duration dislocation
In investing, risk and opportunity are two sides of the same coin. Graeme Forster from our offshore partner, Orbis, unpacks current distortions in the market...
How do you cater for extreme events when constructing resilient multi-asset portfolios?
Gladness Rupare and Martine Damonse, who hosted panels with members of the Allan Gray and Orbis Investment teams, capture some of key questions and insights,...
Orbis investment update: Risks in the real world
Alec Cutler and Rob Perrone, from our offshore partner, Orbis, discuss the real risks the world is facing and the attractive investment opportunities Orbis h...
Navigating the impact of world events on your investments
In just two years, major world events have run a terrifying course, from a health pandemic and ensuing market and social distress to a geopolitical threat...
Orbis Global Balanced: Russia-Ukraine conflict accelerates market shifts
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a painful reminder that there is more to life than markets, and our concern goes out to the people suffering. As investors, o...
Banking on green shoots at Nedbank
Siphesihle Zwane discusses the green shoots emerging at Nedbank and explains why they may reward investors who have enough conviction to stay the course.
Key questions that advisers and clients are asking
Uncertainty is a fact of life, and ever present in investing. There are times, however, when uncertainty seems to dominate sentiment and news flow – and...
Active management: Potential for a comeback in a divided inflationary world
For most of the 2000s, the developed world has been characterised by disinflation and falling interest rates. This is despite a large increase in leverage, t...
Markets change quickly, investments shouldn’t
We often say that we play the hand we are dealt by the market. We can control our research efforts and our decisions, but we certainly can’t control the...
Why should you consider a global balanced fund?
Balanced funds aim for the investment “sweet spot”: Minimising risk while still delivering return. If you are looking to achieve a decent return investing...
Orbis: The great imbalance
At its heart investing is a balancing act. Balancing how much you stand to gain if things go well, with how much you could lose if things don't work out. Now...
Your questions answered
As you embark on your investing journey, you’re likely to have a number of unanswered questions. In the final instalment of our 6-part Personal investing 101...
Has your risk perception changed as a result of the market crisis?
Historically, deep economic shocks have prompted significant changes in investment and saving behaviour. During times of uncertainty, investors scramble to...
Is your trust in your investment manager well placed?
It has been a volatile six months in the markets, following a five-year period of disappointing equity returns. At times like these, it is understandable for...
The framing fallacy
We humans are fallible creatures who suffer from several cognitive biases. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as an example, Rory Kutisker-Jacobson highlights how...
Q&A with Allan Gray and Orbis: Investing beyond COVID-19
While financial market volatility as a result of COVID-19 is expected to continue over the short term, the investment teams at Allan Gray and Orbis are focus...
Perspectives and portfolio positioning amid COVID-19
The world as we know it has changed dramatically over the last two months, with the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown strategies causing extreme volatility on t...
Two decades for the Allan Gray Balanced Fund
The Allan Gray Balanced Fund celebrated its 20-year anniversary on 1 October 2019. The local industry looks vastly different today to how it looked two decad...
Mindful of risk
Uncertain times may cause investors to shy away from risk. While it is important to be mindful of risk and understand the risks you are taking on when...
The benefits of independent financial advice
Many investors underplay the importance of financial advice to the detriment of the performance of their portfolios over time. A good financial adviser can...
Managing risk through our investment process
Our primary objective is to build long-term wealth for our clients. To do this, we balance investment performance with the risk incurred in generating this...
Is a money market fund right for you right now?
Money market unit trusts have become popular as they appear to provide a safe, secure and reliable haven for your investments. During times with extreme...
Orbis: How to balance risk and return in the current environment
As we look at opportunities around the world, one thing seems clear – it is no time to be a hero. According to Alec Cutler, from our offshore partner, Orbis,...
Cloudy crystal ball
Two years ago, our crystal ball was cloudy. Shares and commodity prices suffered a rout in early 2016, and markets were concerned that economies around the...
Allan Gray-Orbis Global Fund of Funds update: Balancing risk and return
A large portion of the Allan Gray Orbis Global Fund of Funds (the Fund) is invested in the Orbis Global Balanced Fund. But what is a “balanced fund”? The...
Thinking about your view of risk
Our primary concern as an investment manager is creating wealth for clients. To do this, we need to balance investment performance for clients with the risk...
How to achieve a sustainable retirement income
Shaun Duddy discusses how to meet and manage risks while drawing a stable income in retirement. He explains why investing at least 50% in growth assets is a...
Is now the time to invest?
Is it time to put your money under the mattress or is it time to invest? Watch this 7-min clip with Andrew Lapping, our chief investment officer, and Todd...
How to be a discerning investor
Negative sentiment and lower expectations for future growth are sending investors scurrying...
Striking a balance
Where many investors define risk as the volatility of returns, or the risk of looking different, our focus is always on avoiding permanent loss of capital...
How much risk can you take?
Risks are elevated in the current environment. This means you should think about how much risk you are prepared to take on...
Why the classic 60/40 is dangerous
Sixty percent equities and forty percent bonds has become such a standard for “moderate risk” that any other allocation raises eyebrows...
How to resist the lure of the herd
While humans take comfort in mimicking the behaviour of one another – we would rather be wrong in the company of many...
Stable Fund update: Finding value in SA equities
South Africa has a history of political uncertainty. The 15 months since the removal of Nhlanhla Nene as finance minister in December 2015 have been a stark...
Pursuing long-term returns without simply reaching for risk
Ben Preston and Maurits Ovaa explain why Orbis believes minimising losses is arguably more important than maximising gains at a time when many stock markets ...
The upside to downside protection
Warren Buffet famously said that there are two rules when investing, 'Rule No.1: Never lose money, Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.' Shaun Duddy discusses...
The theory of risk and return
Wanita Isaacs offers some insights into how you can think about risk in your investment process. Efficient market theory holds that there is a direct...
Understand the impact of inflation
There are different types of investment risks, some more obvious than others. One risk that people often forget about is the risk that their invested money...
Are your investment goals, products and expectations suitably aligned?
Our investment goals depend on our personal priorities in life and there is no generic set of goals that applies to everyone, and no set timeline for achievi...
Do not confuse stability with safety
According to Ben Preston, from our offshore partner Orbis, Orbis and Allan Gray's strict adherence to our bottom-up research process keeps us focused on...
Not the time to relax risk appetite
In his 1988 annual letter to shareholders, Warren Buffett wrote: ‘We have no idea how long the excesses will last, nor do we know what will change the...
Make financial planning a priority in 2013
Research from the US1 shows that financial planning is a critical factor separating those who are on track to meet their financial goals and those who are...
Make sustainability a priority when planning your retirement income
Over the last 20 years pension funds have increasingly passed the responsibility for generating income after retirement on to retirees and insurers, rather...
Planning for income post retirement
If you are knocking at 60's door and fall into the small minority of South Africans who have saved enough to retire comfortably, you may be planning your...
A balancing act
We have written at length about the perils of switching and trying to time the market, noting how investor behaviour plays an important role in investor...
Facelift for Allan Gray fund factsheets
We have redesigned our fund factsheets as the first phase of a review of the fund information we provide in all of our documentation and on our website...
Japan: economic pessimism creates buying opportunities
As bottom-up stock pickers, we believe that great investment opportunities can be found in even the most challenging conditions. Japan is a perfect example....
The risk that matters
Discussions about investing are incomplete without including the topic of risk. Delphine Govender elaborates, focusing on the most important risk in investin...
Questions for personal investing
Rob Formby suggests five questions you may want to ask regarding your personal investments. Every person's situation is unique, so the list is not exhaustive...
What safeguards are in place to protect your individual investments?
At Allan Gray we believe that a critical part of your investment decision is arming yourself with full knowledge of the risks you will be exposed to. There i...
Tough to be different
In the Q2 Quarterly Commentary, Jonathan Brodie and Trevor Black of Orbis discussed the fact that long-term outperformance requires a partnership between the...
The benefits and pitfalls of foreign diversification
Most South African investors looking to diversify will choose to include offshore assets in their portfolio. The trick is to select the right combination of...
