Clem Sunter, South Africa’s most highly regarded scenario planner and strategist, discusses climate change and ethics in a Q&A session with David Levinson, Senior Investment Analyst at Nedgroup Investments.

Tony Cousins, CEO of Pyrford International and Portfolio Manager of the Nedgroup Investments Global Cautious Fund, shares how their strategy unfolded in 2020, where he sees markets going in 2021 and how the Fund is positioned.

Andrew Headley of Veritas Asset Management, Portfolio Manager of the Nedgroup Investments Global Equity Fund, provides an overview of the fund’s performance for the last quarter and what we can expect from the markets going forward.

Jeremy Lang of Ardevora Asset Management, Portfolio Manager of the Nedgroup Investments Global Diversified Equity Fund, shares the team’s unique investment approach, how the fund performed in 2020 and whether vaccines mean a V-shaped recovery.

Ian Beattie from NS Partners, Portfolio Manager of the Nedgroup Investments Global Emerging Markets Equity Fund, has been investing in emerging markets for 25 years and will address ‘emerging markets – we’ve just begun’.

Steven Romick from First Pacific Advisors, co-Portfolio Manager of the Nedgroup Investments Global Flexible Fund, shares how the fund fared in what he terms an exceptionally unexceptional year, the challenges facing value managers and how this will impact the fund’s positioning and ability to deliver on its objectives through a full market cycle.

Marco Colantonio from Resolution Capital, Portfolio Manager of the Nedgroup Investments Global Property Fund, provides an overview of the fund’s performance in 2020 and where he sees value in the market in 2021.

Dave Foord is the CIO of Foord Asset Management, the Portfolio Manager for the Nedgroup Investments Stable Fund. The fund has been shooting the lights out for over ten years and is currently number one over one year and, since its inception 13 years ago, is also number one relative to its peers over that time period. In a Q&A format, Dave discusses his prospects for the current global environment, the outlook for the year ahead and what impact that might have on financial markets.

Since its inception in 2011, the Nedgroup Investments Balanced Fund has had annualised returns of 11.5% and we’re confident that this stellar performance will continue in 2021. Iain Power, the CIO of Truffle Asset Management, the Portfolio Manager of the Nedgroup Investments Balanced Fund since inception, takes stock of the main contributors to performance in 2020 and the current environment and how that translates into the portfolio’s positioning.

One of the asset classes that surprised us all again last year was the fixed income sector. Rashaad Tayob from ABAX Investments, Portfolio Manager for the Nedgroup Investments Flexible Income Fund, explains how they achieved the Fund’s performance in 2020.