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How much is Enough?Winning the Losers Game

*The Raging Bull Award for Best 3 Year Performance – Global Equity General was awarded on 31/01/2019 for performance on the 3-years to 31/12/2018. Full details are available on request.

S&P 100 Top & Bottom 10yr Returns

Source: Bloomberg 2

Top 10 10yrs (cumulative)

Netflix

Amazon.com

Booking.com

Nvidia Corp.

Starbucks

MasterCard

Apple

Adobe

Visa

United Health

6,168%

2,828%

2,238%

1,554%

1,261%

1,220%

1,194%

963%

906%

837%

Average 1,917%

Bottom 10 10yrs (cumulative)

General Motors

PepsiCo

Walgreens Boots Alliance

Exxon Mobile

Schlumberger

Exelon Corp.

Citigroup

Kraft Heinz

Kinder Morgan

General Electric

-2%

-7%

-10%

-15%

-15%

-19%

-22%

-41%

-50%

-53%

Average -23%

In comparison, the S&P 100 Index returned 158% over the period

*Price returns are cumulative over 10 years to December 2018

The Folly of Rebalancing?

Source: Bloomberg, BlueAlpha Research 3

SA looking “cheap”?

Source: RMB Morgan Stanley 4

Mind the Gap

Source: Bloomberg 5

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Growth has been a persistent weak point for SA

Source: Maddison Project Database (2018)

7

Growth has been a persistent weak point for SA

Source: Bloomberg

*Consensus EPS estimates in ZAR

South African Skills Emigration

Source: United Nations, ETM Analytics 8

Origin of Incoming Migrants (2013): 1,566,594 people Destination of Outgoing Migrants (2013): 582,580 people

South African Skills Emigration

Source: United Nations, ETM Analytics 9

Origin of Incoming Migrants (2017): 1,641,115 people Destination of Outgoing Migrants (2017): 607,175 people

South African Skills Exit Acceleration

Source: FNB 10

Reason for selling – Emigration %

South African Skills Creation

Source: ETM, Department of Education 11

South African Unemployment

Source: Bloomberg 12

Unemployment rate

Age 20 – 24 50%

Age 25 – 29 37%

South African Productivity and Private Sector

Source: Macrobond, ETM Analytics 13

10 year percentage change

% %

-20

-10

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

-20

-10

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

75 80 85 90 95 00 05 10 15 20

Source: Macrobond, ETM Macro Advisors

South African Fiscal Degradation

Source: National Treasury 14

South African Savings Depletion

Source: FNB 15

Data smoothed with 5yr exponential MA

Percent Percent

-2.5

0.0

2.5

5.0

7.5

10.0

12.5

-2.5

0.0

2.5

5.0

7.5

10.0

12.5

60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 00 05 10 15 20

Source: Macrobond, ETM Macro Advisors

Percent Percent

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 00 05 10 15 20

Source: Macrobond, ETM Macro Advisors

South African Growing Disparity & Unrest

Source: World Bank, ACLED 16

“Cheap” South Africa = Expensive Investment?

Source: FNB 17

• High skills emigration

• Low skills immigration

• Poor skills creation

• Weakening productivity or rising inefficiency

• Depletion of tax base

• Rising debt burden

• Crowding out of private sector vs. government

• A poor savings culture

• Erosion of its capital base

• Widening disparity between rich and poor

18Source: Mapping Worlds, Bloomberg

“Prudential” guideline?

19Source: Bloomberg, BlueAlpha Research

Preference of high-return “expensive” vs. low-return “cheap”

For SA investors, global exposure provides opportunity

20Source: Bloomberg

No. of companies in Index per ROE Decile

Presenter
Presentation Notes
Speak to why investing globally allows investors to gain exposure to economies that are growing vs. SA’s lack-lustre growth. If you don’t invest in hard currency assets, you’re getting poorer through time, given the effects of local inflation.

Conclusion

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• Ignore “prudential” guideline

• SA Cheap?

• SA Risky?

• Get much more global exposure

• How much ?

BlueAlpha’s Global Equity Fund Performance

22Source: MoneyMate

1 Year & Rank3 Years

(annualised) & Rank

4 Years (annualised)

& Rank

Since Inception (annualised)

& Rank

BlueAlpha BCI Global Equity 23.8% 15.1% 14.9% 16.8%

Benchmark 21.9% 9.8% 12.2% 13.7%

Category Rank 9 / 59 1 / 44 1 / 39 1 / 35

MSCI World Index (ZAR) 22.5% 11.6% 12.5% 13.7%

Outperformance to MSCI WI 1.3% 3.5% 2.4% 3.1%

Performance reported for A Class net of fees in ZAR as at 30/04/2019, Inception: 02/09/2014; Annualised return is the weighted compound growth rate over the period measuredBenchmark: 80% MSCI World TR Index, 20% USD LiborCategory Rank is against the Asisa Global Equity General Category

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