18 Aug 2017
Investing offshore for sustained quality returns: is the approach justified?
By Clyde Rossouw and Neil Finlay, Investec Asset Management. Selecting an offshore equity manager is daunting and the apparent simplicity of a passive strategy often seduces investors. Getting broad exposure to difficult-to-outperform global equity indices at low cost is often used to justify the allocation. We argue that a long-term active approach, with low...