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Q&A with Allan Gray and Orbis: Positioning our portfolios for an inflationary environment

By Gladness Rupare on 01 Jul 2022

Viewing time: 40 min

With rising global inflation and the possibility of a recession on the cards, investors are tasked with protecting their capital and looking for opportunitie...

Insights categories - Investment insights

Podcast: How to think about investing in an energy-short and volatile world

By Tamryn Lamb on 08 Jun 2022

Listening time: 61 mins

From the global technology stock sell-off and rising inflation, to the war in Ukraine exacerbating a global energy crisis, investors are tasked with navigati...

Insights category - companies

What has gone wrong with Naspers?

By Tim Acker on 26 Apr 2022

Reading time: 12 mins

For many years, Naspers was the star performer of the South African stock market. The onset of COVID-19 drove the Naspers and Tencent share prices to new...

Insights categories - Offshore investing

Orbis: Tech opportunities rise in the East

By John Christy and Stanley Lu on 03 Jul 2020

Reading time: 13 mins

Technology stocks have performed remarkably well in recent years and particularly amid the COVID-19 pandemic. John Christy and Stanley Lu, from our offshore...

Insights categories - Markets and economy

COVID-19: Evaluating market risk versus opportunity

By Duncan Artus on 25 Mar 2020

Viewing time: 1 min

We have managed our portfolios through a range of different crises since 1974. Over the last 20 years, the dotcom collapse in 2001/02, the global financial...

Insights categories - Offshore investing

Q&A: Understanding Orbis’ performance and potential

By Duncan Artus and Edward Blain on 28 Oct 2019

Reading time: 11 mins

Market breadth has been very narrow offshore, with few winners and many losers. Among the losers have been emerging markets and select cyclicals. At the same...

Insights category - companies

Prosus marches forward: What should investors be looking out for?

By Nshalati Hlungwane on 10 Sep 2019

Reading time: 5 mins

Naspers, the world’s sixth largest internet company by market capitalisation, will list its foreign internet assets separately via Prosus NV, a newly created...

Insights categories - Offshore investing

Orbis: There are bigger risks than swimming against the tide

By John Christy on 06 Sep 2019

Reading time: 5 mins

We have always described ourselves as “contrarian” investors. While many of our best investment decisions on behalf of clients in the past have been at odds...

Insights category - companies

Our Tencent(s) on VIE structures

By Radhesen Naidoo on 11 Mar 2019

Reading time: 3 mins

As at 28 February 2019, Naspers made up just over 18% of the FTSE/JSE All Share Index. Because of its dominance, including or excluding the share will have a...

Insights categories - Local investing

The year of payback

By Duncan Artus on 15 Feb 2019

Reading time: 4 mins

Excess returns from the FTSE/JSE All Share Index (ALSI) relative to cash have disappointed over the last five years, with cash now outperforming, on average....

Insights categories - Investment insights

Orbis: Think like a business owner

By Rob Perrone on 02 Nov 2018

Reading time: 5 mins

Say you own a small stake in a company. Every day, one of your partners tells you what he thinks the business is worth, and he offers to buy your stake or se...

Insights category - companies

An investment case for Naspers

By Ruan Stander on 17 Oct 2018

Reading time: 9 mins

As at 30 September 2018, Naspers made up 18.2% of the JSE. Whether you are for or against the stock, adequate time needs to be devoted to considering the...

Insights categories - Local investing

Are you overly exposed to China?

By Duncan Artus on 13 Jun 2018

Reading time: 7 mins

As South African investors we are very tuned into the local political and economic risks that we face. But what about the less obvious risks?

Insights categories - Offshore investing

Emerging market equities: looking beyond the mega-caps

By Woojin Choi on 24 Oct 2017

Reading time: 7 mins

Our offshore partner Orbis launched an Emerging Markets Equity Strategy in January 2016. Later that year it broadened the mandate of its Asia ex-Japan Equity...

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