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Insights

With our teams’ combined decades of experience and skills, we’ve managed to build up a considerable wealth of knowledge about the world of investing.

Read about some of the insights we’ve gained and how we put our expertise to meaningful use.

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Webinar Power Hour
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11 Aug 2021

Webinar: Power Hour
In our new world fraught with an endless stream of webinars and Zoom fatigue, we bring you a fresh approach. A “Power Hour” with five of Amplify’s next-generation asset managers. This dynamic engagement will give you access to a broad range of views from our diverse set of asset managers. It’ll provide insights on the current performance and positioning of the Amplify funds they manage, as well as their market outlook and resulting impact on the various asset classes.
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Greater degrees of freedom
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5 Aug 2021

Greater degrees of freedom
The ability of hedge funds to produce consistent, positive and excess returns is a product of them having less constrained opportunity sets than long-only funds. “Even more important is the correlation of returns. The correlation to equity is negligible, and the correlation to the bond market is not significant. This is a strong reason arguing in favour of the inclusion of relevant hedge funds into an investment portfolio to get the diversification benefit.”
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Greater degrees of freedom
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5 Aug 2021

Webinar: Greater degrees of freedom
Watch the webinars as Lourens Pretorius discusses unconstrained yield curve strategies with a fixed income hedge fund and Jonathan du Toit discusses greater degrees of freedom with a long/short equity hedge fund.
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Income funds vs bonds funds
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13 Jul 2021

Income funds vs bond funds
As you’d expect, the higher duration bond funds carry greater potential for capital gains and losses. Asset allocators, whose clients have a low ability and willingness to take risk, might choose to avoid bond funds on this basis.
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Webinar Power Hour
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23 Jun 2021

Delivering certainty through consistency

To manage an absolute return mandate, the real return objective is the primary goal. “When we construct a portfolio, and when we think of return drivers, we look at how to attain the absolute return with the highest certainty and lowest tail risk, and we tend to veer towards overweight where such a return driver meets the return objective when the distribution of risk around that is acceptable,” says Amplify SCI* Amplify SCI* Defensive Balanced Fund and Amplify SCI* Absolute Fund manager Lourens Pretorius of Matrix Fund Managers.
The importance of Agile and active asset management
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22 Jun 2021

Webinar: delivering certainty through consistency

Volatility across various asset classes has made for a thrilling 2021. Locally we’ve seen a strong rebound in risk assets over the short term leading to high levels of optimism. However, growing wealth or enjoying one’s retirement savings means enduring a longer timeframe so how can one ensure, with certainty, that your investments are working for you regardless of the market cycle or direction?
Unearthing true value in sa
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9 Jun 2021

Webinar: Value revival – is there value in value?

The long-awaited rotation from growth to value has arrived. Many market participants believe it to be a longer-term rebalancing within the equity market due to a massive dislocation between the two styles. However, it begs the question if there is still return potential in the value component of the market, will it be coming out of growth or is it a mix of the two?
Unearthing true value in sa
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8 Jun 2021

The value revival – is there value in value?

Value has massively underperformed growth. In the short run, P:E multiples drive the market, but in the long run, earnings do, and earnings growth of value stocks is starting to rise. Value stocks have become extremely cheap, and current valuations are very low, while earnings going forward are in many cases looking more attractive than growth stocks.
Does the label match whats in the can
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20 May 2021

Does the label match what’s in the can?

The South African market is not excessively overvalued compared to other markets and the fund continues to find attractively-valued shares including commodity-related shares, notwithstanding their recent rise. Even if commodity prices come down a bit, our commodity shares still look reasonably priced and should be supported by earnings and cashflows, and we should see some special dividends coming through. These companies have been hoarding cash and paying down debt and are sitting with healthy balance sheets.
Does the label match whats in the can
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17 May 2021

Webinar: Does the label match what’s in the can?

Style drift is the antithesis of a consistent investment manager. In times of high volatility and unforeseen events investment managers may be tempted to deviate from their strategies and chase performance.

Omri Thomas, portfolio manager of the Amplify SCI* Flexible Equity Fund, discusses the need for a strong asymmetric investment process, what tools are used and how sticking to this strategy ensures consistent outperformance of the market over time.
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