Articles tagged as "Orbis Global Equity Fund"
Orbis Global Equity: The art of adaptability in turbulent markets
Against a backdrop of heightened volatility, rapid advances in artificial intelligence and ongoing geopolitical tension, an adaptable, disciplined and...
Disconnect between economies and markets warrants caution
2025 was a great year to own South African financial assets despite mostly negative news headlines and lacklustre economic growth – a theme common among...
AMETFs: A new way to access the Allan Gray - Orbis rand-denominated offshore feeder strategies
There are three ways to access the Allan Gray - Orbis Global Equity and Global Balanced feeder strategies. Julie Campbell explains the avenues for investment...
Orbis Global Equity: Biotech breakthroughs in a crowded market
In an increasingly competitive and crowded market, the biotech sector offers unique opportunities to capitalise on overlooked, undervalued shares. Graeme...
How to unlock value through offshore investing
The volatility of 2025 has underscored the importance of diversification. Global markets have swung from sharp declines to record highs, reminding us that a...
Orbis Global Equity: Discipline in the face of volatility
The US market has long represented a safe haven for many investors, although the tide may finally be turning. Adam R. Karr, president and portfolio manager a...
What can we learn from Fartcoin?
At the recent Allan Gray Fund Provider, Graeme Forster, portfolio manager at our offshore partner, Orbis, shared an update on the Orbis Global Equity Fund. I...
2025: Risk remains heightened around the world
Following a year that saw political regimes shift in many parts of the world, investors need to brace themselves for a period of elevated risk as geopolitica...
2024: What will the election year hold?
From macroeconomic decisions to political outcomes, markets – and sentiment – can be temporarily influenced by various external factors. If 2023 will be...
Orbis: Navigating market change
To do well over the long term, you need to be positioned differently – particularly when markets are going through change. Fiona Jeffery, from our offshore...
Central Banks and Big Macs: Finding value in currencies
One of the easiest ways to lose money is to buy something for more than it is really worth. When picking stocks, we seek to avoid permanent capital loss by...
Orbis Global Equity: Value in a changing Japan
Optically, Japan has not been an attractive investment destination over the last 30 years. However, Brett Moshal, from our offshore partner, Orbis, illustrat...
The power of 1%
As we celebrate our 50 th anniversary, we are mindful of the collective efforts of teams, past and present, in building our long-term track record....
Orbis: President’s letter 2022
In his president’s letter, Adam Karr, from our offshore partner, Orbis, reflects on the actions that he and the team took during 2022 to ensure they delivere...
Was 2022 a secular turning point and if so, what does it mean for the years ahead?
In his first investment update of 2023, Duncan Artus discusses the current investment context and how it differs from the past, shares a review of 2022 and...
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...
Understanding the impact of the Ukraine crisis on your investments
Like everyone else, we have been watching with dismay as the war in Ukraine unfolds. While in this piece we address some of the economic and investment...
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...
Orbis: Unpacking the risks from regulatory change
For Chinese companies, regulatory change is a perennial risk. In July, the government gave investors a stark reminder of that risk when it announced sweeping...
Orbis: Global perspectives on Naspers
One of the largest positions in the Orbis Global Equity Fund is Naspers, whose key underlying asset is a 29% stake in the Chinese internet juggernaut Tencent...
Orbis: Are there real long-term opportunities in the US?
With just 30% of assets invested in US shares versus 66% for the MSCI World Index, the Orbis Global Equity Fund’s current underweight to the US market is the...
Podcast: A candid conversation with Orbis' Adam Karr
Taking a long-term, contrarian approach has influenced every aspect of how we invest and do business at Orbis and Allan Gray. From the way the firms are...
Orbis: Harder to get into than Harvard
If 2020 was an emotional roller coaster, the first month of 2021 provided a peek inside the darker corners of the funhouse. We remain hopeful that more...
Investment update: Taking advantage of disparities in the market
One of the key preconditions for successful active management is the level of disparity in the markets. Duncan Artus discusses this in our first video and...
Orbis: The power of perspective
It is easy to get caught up in the noise of short-term events like politics. What we have learned over the past 30 years is that a long-term view often revea...
How is the market up?
After the worst five-week crash ever, global stock markets have recovered all of their losses in just five months, with the MSCI World Index setting a new...
Orbis: Resilience and enthusiasm at a time of uncertainty
In a presentation to advisers and clients via Zoom webinar, Matthew Spencer, from our offshore partner Orbis, discusses the disappointing recent performance ...
Orbis: Contrarian investing in an unconventional environment
Orbis has been going through a period of painful underperformance. Jonathan Brodie reminds investors what Orbis is trying to achieve, examines performance ov...
Orbis: Is value investing dead?
Over multiple decades, the traditional value approach of buying cheap stocks has worked remarkably well. Over the last decade, it hasn’t, leading an...
Will Value ever be fashionable again?
Fashion trends tend to move in cycles. Anyone who lived through the 1990s and kept wearing their Doc Martens and bright neon colours would have spent 25 year...
Orbis: enthusiasm for the portfolio
Contrarian investing is a strange profession. When things are going well, you can look like a magician – earning extraordinary returns while others flounder....
Changes to Orbis’ fee structure – good news for investors
Allan Gray’s offshore partner Orbis is introducing a new fee structure for African investors.
Orbis: Can you be patient and excited at the same time?
As contrarian investors who invest differently, periods of underperformance are part of the investment cycle and, while disappointing, they can offer...
Orbis: Key detractors from recent performance
Periods of underperformance are stressful and disappointing, and while they are an expected part of the investment cycle for us as a contrarian manager, we...
Understanding recent performance
2018 was a difficult year for investors with most asset classes falling in price. The prices of all assets are volatile; the only asset to seemingly lack...
Orbis Global Equity: Investing differently
Over the last five years, the median global equity manager has underperformed the MSCI World Index and many value-oriented global equity managers have done...
Finding value in an over-valued world
Defensive shares are normally a safe place to “hide” when valuations look high, but Orbis is currently finding more opportunities among cyclical shares where...
Orbis: Tech can be contrarian - if the price is right
We are contrarian investors, and technology shares are often popular. Given that, you might expect us to shun them. At times, we have: when tech stocks trade...
Global jitters: Avoid safe havens, opportunity in overlooked sectors
The uncertain global political and economic backdrop created by unexpected recent shocks has spooked investors. However fear, particularly when spurred by...
Orbis: Two myths about emerging market equities
At the end of 2015, emerging market (EM) shares had meaningfully underperformed developed market (DM) shares over the previous five years...
Contrarian investing and different performance
The valuation-based approach to investing used by Allan Gray and our offshore partner Orbis is often contrarian since the shares that are most attractively...
Orbis Global Equity: Guided by our investment philosophy
This piece was originally published in the Orbis March 2015 Quarterly Manager's Report. Over the 25-year history of Orbis' Global Equity Fund, the underlying...
Orbis Funds: Reflecting on 2014 and looking ahead
This piece was originally published in the Orbis December 2014 Annual Manager's Report. In 2014, Orbis identified several new opportunities, including select...
Orbis funds: Finding the best long-term value for clients
The Orbis Global Equity Fund will mark its 25th year at the end of December. In that time, Orbis has provided access to the same fundamental, contrarian,...
Finding value in global markets
Emerging markets have come under intense focus so far this year and while the main worries have centred on countries such as Argentina and Turkey, the market...
Investing offshore to reduce portfolio risk
Five years on from the start of the Global Financial Crisis, as economic uncertainty continues across the world, investors remain sceptical about exposing...
High correlations present challenges
Actively managed funds, including the Orbis Global Equity Fund, have struggled to outperform the market over the past year. Actively managed funds are able t...
Looking back at 2011 and preparing for the years ahead
South Africa has thus far been spared the crushing austerity measures affecting Europe. Three important factors have been in our favour so far: a decade of...
Things you can control, and things you cannot
In this current very uncertain world, we cannot begin to control or predict political or economic outcomes. But we can control what shares we buy and we are...
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....
Responding to challenging times
Performance does not come in a straight line, which means that periods of long-term outperformance will always be accompanied by periods of, sometimes...
The story is in the stocks
Investors who give their money to professional managers to invest still wish to remain informed about what their managers are thinking and how therefore they...
