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The Risk/Return Tradeoff: Results from the SPIVA South Africa Year-End 2022 Scorecard
The year 2022 was riddled with investment challenges worldwide, as fears of recession, rising inflation and geopolitical uncertainty ranked among a whirlwind of other market pressures. In South Africa, these risks manifested in two notably different halves of the year, with major equity and bond indices ending H1 in negative territory, but then rallying to…
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The Climb: SPIVA South Africa Mid-Year 2022 Scorecard
A clever (yet ill-fated) character once said, “Chaos is a ladder.” The first half of 2022 was indeed full of chaos in many major markets, including South Africa; our latest SPIVA South Africa Scorecard for the region shows where the rungs were slippery and where active funds were able to climb the fastest. Overall, the…
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Even Smarter Beta in South Africa? – Diversifying and Optimizing
The equity risk premia from factors (such as quality, momentum, and low volatility) have been widely accepted and adopted by investment practitioners across the globe and South Africa alike. The belief by many is that exposure to these risk factors, in addition to the market, could reward investors over the long term. While the long-term…
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Outperformance in South Africa and Avoiding Single-Stock Risk
The returns of two liquid equity benchmarks in South Africa with the same target market have been significantly different YTD as of Oct. 26, 2018. Over the period, the S&P South Africa 50 has declined 8.8% while the FTSE/JSE Top 40 has fallen 12.6%—a difference of over 380 bps—a considerable performance gap over a fairly…
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Active Fund Management in South Africa Continued to Struggle in 2016
Equity markets in South Africa, as measured by the S&P South Africa Domestic Shareholder Weighted (DSW) Index ZAR, increase 5% in 2016. Aside from the GDP contraction experienced in the last quarter of 2016, conditions were generally improving in the country. For example, the South African rand strengthened during the year and the municipal elections…
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How Have South African Active Fund Managers Performed?
The performance of the South African equities market has been lackluster as a result of poor employment data, weak consumer confidence, and continued power shortages. This has led to an underperformance of approximately 5% in ZAR-denominated domestic equities, as measured by the S&P South Africa Domestic Shareholder Weighted (DSW) Index, compared with global equities. Equities:…
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