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The pendulum is swinging back to active funds

17 August 2017 | General

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. To us, passive investing has been a positive development for the industry.

Value investing in Nigeria

17 August 2017 | Equities

Active managers in Africa and frontier markets have to counter the perceived higher risk of investing in volatile markets prone to political and economic uncertainty.

How to invest in times of political change

16 August 2017 | General

The last few years have thrown up a series of political surprises. In South Africa, we have no shortage of political stories making the headlines on a regular basis, but we’ve seen some unexpected changes on the global stage too of late. According to Andrew Howard, Head of Sustainable Research at Schroders, rank outsiders overturning the odds have become so normal that global equity markets have learnt to brace for impact and as a result, those impacts have become more muted.