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11 Dec 2019

How to use private market investing to beat inflation as JSE lags

By Janice Roberts

By Ashburton Investments Private Markets team. Can private market assets such as private equity, private debt, real estate and infrastructure funds help investors beat inflation after the JSE has struggled to do so over the last five years? Private market investing, or alternative asset investments, refer to those not traded on a public exchange. The FTSE/JSE All...

20 Nov 2019

How the Jobs Fund and Ashburton put pension funds to work

By Janice Roberts

A successful partnership between The Jobs Fund, a R9 billion challenge fund that leverages relationships with the private and public sectors to create jobs, and the Ashburton Credit Enhancement Fund (ACEF), saw an innovative guarantee mechanism leverage R679 million in private funding off the back of a R68 million guarantee grant. The resulting matched funding...

23 Oct 2018

SA equity market likely to struggle but bargains emerging

By Janice Roberts

The South African overall equity market has shed more than 20% from its highs at the beginning of the year in dollar terms, a similar sized drop to the ‘Nenegate’ slump of 2015.

30 Aug 2018

10 years on since Lehman - what is the greatest market risk now?

By Janice Roberts

By Mark Appleton, SA Head of Multi Asset and Strategy at Ashburton Investments. A new paradigm of fear and uncertainty was unleashed on the world with the demise of Lehmans on the 15 September 2008. And while markets have recovered, spectacularly in some cases, a lingering symptom of the crisis could be one of today’s biggest risks...

02 May 2018

Ashburton Investments to spin-off its Dynamic Equity Hedge Funds into standalone empowerment business

By Janice Roberts

Ashburton Investments, the asset management arm of the FirstRand group, announced this week that it will be spinning off the Ashburton Dynamic Equity Hedge Funds business at the end of April 2018. There are two hedge funds in the business: the Ashburton Dynamic Equity Qualified Hedge Fund and the Ashburton Dynamic Equity Retail Investor Hedge Fund. As of 1st May...

20 Nov 2017

Ashburton fund recognised

By Janice Roberts

Craig Farley, lead Fund Manager of the Ashburton Chindia Equity Fund, has been ranked 17th best emerging markets equity manager 2017 by Citywire, a leading independent information provider for professional advisers and investors globally.

13 Nov 2017

FNB repositions its investment offering

By Janice Roberts

FNB has announced its intention to significantly enhance its investment offering to clients by investing heavily into its Wealth and Investment business that now combines the existing investment capabilities from FNB, RMB Private Bank and Ashburton.

04 Oct 2017

AI and Robotics: Rise of the Machines?

By Janice Roberts

By Robert Lea, Head of Global Equity Research at Ashburton Investments. Recent rapid advances in technology have led to a surge in media interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotics and Automation.

26 Sep 2017

New Ashburton Global 1200 ETF will capture 70% of world's market cap

By Janice Roberts

The new Ashburton Global 1200 ETF will provide investors with efficient exposure to global equity markets by tracking the S&P Global 1200.

23 Aug 2017

The pendulum is swinging back to active funds

By Janice Roberts

“The active versus passive debate is clearly one of the most polarising arguments in the investment industry today – but at Ashburton Investments, we do not believe it should be an argument at all,” says Steve Kelso, chief executive of Ashburton Investments (International).

08 Aug 2017

'Thou shalt invest as prescribed'

By Janice Roberts

By Albert Botha, Fixed Income Portfolio Manager at Ashburton Investments. With the ANC policy conference over and political fatigue setting in, one of the final little nuggets released on the last day was that the ANC is mulling over the possibility of prescribed assets in pension funds.

11 Apr 2017

The 10 key themes investors must not ignore in 2017

By Janice Roberts

By Marianna Georgakopoulou Head of Asset Allocation at Ashburton Investments. Global macro indicators are currently strong, with a clear cyclical recovery underway in most regions of the world. In particular, industrial and consumer survey data in the US is extremely positive. However, we are cognisant expectations are high for a continuation of this economic strength,...