Markets relaxed about tariffs | S&P 500 at record high | Amazon's robots
14 July 2025
The effective US tariff rate on imports is now about 18%, the highest since the 1930s. Despite this, markets remain relatively calm.
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Retirement investments that evolve with your clients
We offer several pre- and post-retirement solutions to help your clients save towards their retirement goals within the regulatory framework. For pre-retirement, our regulation 28 compliant unit trusts are neat, diversified solutions, whilst our segregated portfolios provide transparency for a more sophisticated client.
Post retirement, we are able to offer a range of unit trusts and could amend a discretionary mandate to allow for your clients’ personal circumstances in a more flexible manner. We are also able to offer more bespoke solutions, partially in post-retirement. For example, a client could hold offshore securities within their Living Annuity.
Scale and experience
As the largest private client manager in South Africa, you will benefit from our scale and experience across different geographies and asset classes.
Active investment management
We are active investment managers which means we can take advantage of investment opportunities as they arise with the aim of delivering benchmark-beating returns.
Diversification
A well-diversified portfolio is one of the best ways to protect against shocks in global markets. This is why we invest in different shares, sectors and geographies that don’t correlate with one another.
Find a balanced retirement portfolio to suit your
clients’ needs
Pre-retirement unit trusts
We run two regulation 28 compliant, multi asset unit trusts/funds which are suitable for pre retirement savings. A single manager fund, the Investec BCI Balanced High Equity Fund, has an equity bias. The Investec BCI Balanced Fund of Funds is further diversified by fund manager; we partner with the finest managers we can find to find opportunities and maximise your retirement savings.
Pre-retirement discretionary portfolios
We run three discretionary multi asset class portfolios which are backed by our rigorous investment process. They provide a transparent investment solution for a more sophisticated client. The minimum investment is R3 million. They cater for different risk appetites and can adjusted as client circumstances change by amending the mandate.Investec Balanced Portfolio (without offshore)
Investec Balanced Portfolio (including offshore)
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