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Stonehage Fleming

21 Sep 2022

Steps to building an inflation-proof portfolio

By Staff Writer

The global environment remains volatile and elevated inflation levels are likely to continue for some time.
27 Jan 2022

Little sense pitting value against growth – they perform different roles

By Staff Writer

To compare the merits of value investing over growth investing is to ignore their fundamental differences. One is tactical, while the other is structural.
24 Aug 2021

Stonehage Fleming launches first global sustainable equity fund

By Staff Writer

Stonehage Fleming Investment Management, the UK investment division of one of the world’s leading international Family Offices, announces the launch of its Global Sustainable Equity Fund (GSEF) in South Africa, having successfully launched its Global Sustainable Investment Portfolios (GSIP) in 2019. Stonehage Fleming Investment Management is a signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment.
21 Jul 2021

Stonehage Fleming acquires Maitland's Private Client Services

By Staff Writer

Stonehage Fleming, an independently owned international Multi Family Office, today announces that it has agreed to acquire the Private Client Services business of Maitland, a privately owned global advisory, administration and family office firm.
16 Jul 2021

Take 100% of surplus assets offshore, says Stonehage Fleming

By Staff Writer

Investors always ask how much of their portfolios should be invested offshore. After many years of analysing this question from different angles, Stonehage Fleming Investment Management in South Africa suggests that all surplus assets should be invested offshore.
09 Jul 2021

Foreigners have been selling SA bonds - but who is buying them?

By Staff Writer

Foreign investors have almost constantly been selling South African Government Bonds (SAGB’s) over the past three and a half years, as the seriousness of the South African fiscal situation and resultant rising debt levels have become clearer. If anything, this selling has increased over the past year as the already dire fiscal situation was exacerbated by the economic impacts of the measures taken by governments to slow the spread of the virus.

29 Jun 2021

Understanding cyclical stocks

By Staff Writer

Ongoing vaccination efforts and economic re-opening have seen the global economy well-positioned for a substantial pickup in growth for the remainder of 2021 and the year ahead. This resurgence in economic prospects has seen the share prices of cyclical stocks improve materially since the lows of 2020.
17 Mar 2021

Avoid investing for cyclical recovery

By Staff Writer

While Covid-19 gave markets a massive shock last year, the carpet was not pulled out from under the global economy the way it was during the 2007-2008 Global Financial Crisis – everything was just shut down. As a result, economies around the world should be able to recover a lot quicker than before.
21 Nov 2019

Female investment clients on the rise in South Africa

By Janice Roberts

A third of Stonehage Fleming investment clients in South Africa are women and the number is growing, according to Reyneke van Wyk, Head of Stonehage Fleming’s Investment Division, South Africa. “The percentage of women in our South African client base today is 31% – an increase of 35% in four years”, he says. “In Johannesburg...
14 Oct 2019

The potential perils of passives

By Janice Roberts

By Carolyn Levin, Director – Investment Management, Stonehage Fleming South Africa. With passive equity funds threatening to take over their active peers in the US, and active managers struggling to outperform the market over recent years, one may be tempted to start switching into passive investments. However, as the global economy potentially heads into more...
20 Sep 2019

Stonehage Fleming SA appoints new partner – tax advisory of family office

By Janice Roberts

Stonehage Fleming welcomes Dr Charl du Toit to the Stonehage Fleming family in South Africa. Starting 1 November, Charl has been appointed as Partner in the South African Family Office Division, with responsibility for Tax Advisory services.  He will be based in the Group’s Cape Town office.
06 Sep 2019

Late Cycle Investing – when and where?

By Janice Roberts

By Bryn Hatty, Chief Investment Officer, Stonehage Fleming South Africa. Often some of the best equity returns can be achieved in the last few years and months before a recession. Of course, staying invested late in the cycle is not without risks – the biggest being overstaying your welcome. Where should you invest late in...
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