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Is being early indistinguishable from being wrong?
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Excess returns of South African equities vs. Cash
Allan Gray Research, Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns, Princeton University Press, 2002, INET BFA, data to 31.12.2018 (NW070119ns)
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Historic US$ Returns
Bloomberg, AG research, numbers may be rounded
11 Year Returns 20 Year Returns
All Share Index 1.6% 10.8%
MSCI World Index 3.7% 4.4%
S&P 500 7.3% 5.6%
MSCI World ex US 0.3% 3.7%
US CPI 1.8% 2.2%
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Central Bank Balance sheet expansion
Bianco research, Bloomberg
5 2666 742
10 049 10 13011 291
13 60714 658
15 760 16 296 16 91318 748
21 562
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Bubbles
BOAML
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Bubbles
St Louis Fed
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Central bank balance sheet contraction
Bianco research, Citi
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US T – bill
INET BFA
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World Index: broad bear market in stocks
MSCI, Datastream, Orbis. Data shows the drawdown from the highest price in the last 12 months to the price on 31 December 2018, for each constituent of the MSCI World Index.
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Percentage of JSE ALSI Top 40 companies within 5% of all time high
RMB Morgan Stanley Research, data to 31 December 2018
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Percentage of JSE ALSI Top 40 companies off all time high
RMB Morgan Stanley Research, data to 31 December 2018
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Historic distribution of net equity exposure
Based on total month-end net equity exposure; data to 31 December 2018.
65,0%
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Avoiding big mistakes was important
IRESS , AG research ^ Looking back two years
Share Spot Peak Price^ Fall Low Price Fall Relative
Fall Peak PE PE DY
ALSI 51485 61766 17% 51454 17% N/A 24 16 3.6%Steinhoff 170 7401 98% 107 99% 98% 16 N/A N /A
MTN 8555 14000 39% 6907 51% 37% N/A 15 7.3%Aspen 13351 32750 59% 12818 61% 56% 35 9 2.4%
Resilient 5748 15350 63% 4432 71% 56% 31 N/A 9.8%EOH 3052 16650 82% 2339 86% 82% 24 11 0.0%
Tiger Brands 27033 47806 43% 24696 48% 36% 22 17 4.0%Intu 2136 5007 57% 1925 62% 56% N/A 7 10.5%
Mediclinc 5928 15261 61% 5655 63% 59% 28 12 2.3%Impala Platinum 3698 5889 37% 1561 73% 32% N/A N/A 0.0%
Hyprop 8375 13545 38% 8007 41% 38% 24 11 9.0%BAT Plc 46358 96074 52% 46358 52% 50% 24 10 7.5%
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BAT plc: valuation and net debt
Allan Gray Research
Market cap, 58,8
91,7
11,5
Net debt,43,6
ITC, 12,1
Minorities,1,5
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BAT plc: but… volumes and currencies
UBS
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BAT plc: but… regulation
UBS, BAT Capital Markets Day
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BAT plc: holdings and price
IRESS, Allan Gray research, data to 31 December 2018.
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Fixed Income Instrument Yields
IRESS and Allan Gray research
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Listed property has de rated
IRRES, Allan Gray research
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DY 3.5% + slightly above trend growth in real earnings 3% p.a.+ alpha= reasonable prospect for real returns over medium term
Real returns from fixed income (currently)
Currency risk
Local outlook
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Local opportunity setWeak ZAR – resources Strong ZAR – SA consumer
Weak ZAR – global / other Strong ZAR – SA financial
Risk
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Relative attractiveness
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SOL
SPG
SAP
GFI
BHP
IMP
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WHL SUI
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PIK TBS
NTC
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Top 10 local equity holdings as at 31 December 2018
Allan Gray Balanced Fund % of Fund
Naspers (*) 6.7
British American Tobacco 4.5
Sasol 4.5
Standard Bank 3.0
Remgro 2.9
Glencore 2.7
Investec Ltd 2.1
Woolworths 1.7
Old Mutual Ltd 1.7
Life Healthcare 1.6
Total 31.5
(*) Including positions in related stub certificates
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Offshore opportunities: Chinese Gaming / Internet
Citi
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Gaming market in context
Statista
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Offshore opportunities: biopharmaceutical
Source: Thomson Reuters Datastream
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As at 31 December 2018
Stocks % of Orbis Funds
NetEase 5.6AbbVie 4.5Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. 3.4Naspers 2.7Bristol-Myers Squibb 2.5XPO Logistics 2.5Celgene 2.5Mitsubishi 2.4SPDR Gold Trust 2.4BP 2.2Total 30.7
Allan Gray Balanced FundTop 10 Foreign holdings
Allan Gray (MH 080119)
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There has been significant creation of credit and distortion of interest rates globally.
In US$ terms, SA equities have gone nowhere since 2006
Fixed income is currently giving you real returns & property is on our radar
There are some interesting local valuations but a) the market is not at trough valuations and b) earnings need to start growing
The world index performance has been very narrow: a significant amount of global shares are already in a bear market
Reversion to mean for Orbis alpha
Conclusion
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The world has been flooded with money
Bank Credit Analyst (https://www.bcaresearch.com/reports/view_report/25756/ems)
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Market valuation relative to history
INET BFA and Allan Gray Research, data to 30.11.2018 (SK031218m)
50 664 52 190
38 376 39 532
31 127
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Current Market Price 50 664Spot PE 16.7Long Term Average PE 12.7Current Earnings 3 034Trendline Earnings 3 125Bottom Earnings 2 461