BUSINESS DAY TV: Traditional assets still win out in SA — but that could be about to change
Gyongyi King is deputy chief investment officer at Investment Solutions. Business Day TV: With a low return environment from traditional investments, one would expect investors to be expanding their horizons, but despite Regulation 28 being amended five years ago, only 2.3% of pension funds are invested in alternative assets. We spoke to Gyongyi King, deputy chief investment officer at Investment Solutions, about why the uptake of alternative investments has been minimal. GyongYi King: What we’ve seen in SA is an environment where your traditional asset classes have done very well for you. So as an investor, thinking about the complexity outside of those traditional investments towards alternatives has really not been compelling for investors. So what they’ve done is they’ve stuck to their traditional investments, they have done very well, but as you’ve pointed out, in the past year or so we haven’t seen the returns we’ve come to expect from equities. The bond market has done pretty...
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