
Articles tagged as "Orbis Global Balanced Fund"
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...
Back to the future: Why studios are betting on the box office
While many continue to doubt the viability of theatrical exhibition, viewing it as another legacy business that will crumble before the rising tide of...
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...
Holding steady when global markets are in flux
In the latest episode of The Allan Gray Podcast, Radhesen Naidoo, Allan Gray’s joint head of Institutional Clients and the client-servicing lead for Orbis in...
Holding steady when global markets are in flux
In the latest episode of The Allan Gray Podcast, Radhesen Naidoo, Allan Gray’s joint head of Institutional Clients and the client-servicing lead for Orbis in...
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...
Orbis Global Balanced: Investing through the cycles
History seemingly often repeats itself, but it might be dangerous to assume that the investing landscape over the next 20 years will be similar to that of th...
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...
Orbis Global Balanced Fund: A tour of the portfolio
After the extraordinary performance of 2020, global stock and bond markets both appear unusually expensive. From this starting point, long-term returns for...
Orbis: Finding an edge in tech
The future of society and technology requires ever-increasing connectivity, data speeds, and computational power, and those improvements depend on ever more...
Orbis: Performance and positioning during COVID-19
There has been little else to talk about as COVID-19 dominates world headlines. Globally, everyone is trying to evaluate the real impact the pandemic will ha...
Orbis: Hunting for value
Buying cheap stocks and selling them for a profit sounds like a reasonable way to make money. But there’s a bit more to it when it comes to the way we invest...
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,...
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...
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...
Global perspective: Do value shares deserve to be this cheap?
The Orbis Global Balanced Fund aims to balance capital appreciation and income generation with the associated risk of its investments. These objectives...
Global perspective: Do value shares deserve to be this cheap?
The Orbis Global Balanced Fund aims to balance capital appreciation and income generation with the associated risk of its investments. These objectives...
XPO Logistics: Diversification through owning both shares and bonds
Forming contrarian views about the intrinsic value of companies is the core of what we do. In the Orbis Global Balanced Fund, this fundamental company resear...
Introducing the Orbis Global Balanced Fund
Like Allan Gray, Orbis has a limited range of funds which it believes addresses the needs of most investors. New funds are only introduced after very careful...