Local insight, global expertise
The Global Investment Strategy Group (GISG) brings together Investec Wealth & Investment International professionals from the UK, South Africa and Switzerland.
We combine data-driven intelligence with human wisdom to build a holistic, unified view of the markets, enabling you to navigate complexity and create opportunities for long-term growth.
Global investment process
A rigorous process, informed by a wide range of perspectives
Our investment process draws on the expertise of leading strategic thinkers with over 350 years of collective experience. Our global perspective informs every local portfolio decision, removing the risk of emotionally driven choices and ensuring your strategy reflects a broader, more balanced view of the markets.
Unified perspective. Smarter decisions.
The Global Investment Strategy Group
Our Global Investment Strategy Group (GISG) brings together professionals from the UK, South Africa, Mauritius and Switzerland, with hundreds of collective years of experience across regions.
Our global footprint and outlook, combined with our intellectual capital and sustained tenure, enable us to form a more balanced, considered view, so that investment decisions are always made with the bigger picture in mind.
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The GISG meets every quarter to:
map out and analyse
The global economic outlook for the next 18 months, establishing the backdrop against which every decision is made.
co-ordinate
The risk appetite of the group and define how much risk we are comfortable to assume.
align on risk
And how the risk budget is to be spent, including the most and least appealing areas to assume risk and how we insure against it.
identify and validate
The key investment themes shaping markets, testing each one before it informs how portfolios are positioned.
look for threats
In a global investor's path – the risks beneath the surface that could disrupt returns if left unseen.
discuss new developments
That could have an impact on returns, so our view stays current and our positioning never stands still.
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global investment view
Unified perspective, smarter decisions
The Global Investment Strategy Group meets quarterly to distil the thinking of Investec’s leading strategic thinkers and map out an 18-month outlook, setting a risk budget and identifying some of the potential risks that lie in the global investor’s path.
SA Asset Allocation Committee
Shaping investment views within a local context
Global insight is only relevant when it's translated within a local context. This is the role of the South Africa Asset Allocation Committee (SA AAC), which meets every quarter – after the global GISG and Global Asset Allocation Committee (GAAC) meetings – to shape our investment view within a distinctly South African context, while remaining informed by global perspectives.
The SA AAC meets quarterly to:
Assess the local landscape
Map out and analyse the broad, SA-specific economic outlook over the next 18 months.
Build a strategic view
Develop a strategic asset allocation view considering specific trends of the broad macro and asset classes.
Test themes and threats
Identify, test and validate key investment themes and threats.
Discuss risks
Discuss risks and determine how the risk budget should be spent.