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STANLIB Enhanced Multi Style and STANLIB Equity Funds navigate an eventful Q3 2024

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In this podcast Rademeyer Vermaak, Head of Systematic Solutions, discusses how their precise approach towards managing risk enables the team to rate the effect of potential macroeconomic shocks on each counter in each portfolio and neutralise those risks. He also discussed why the managers have decided to overweight certain financial counters. The STANLIB Enhanced Multi Style Equity Fund has continued to outperform its benchmark for the 12 months to 30 September 2024.

Rademeyer discusses:
• The impact of the Chinese government stimulus announcement on global resource stocks
• The team’s holistic, measurable process and the key factors taken into consideration both locally and globally
• The stand-out stocks for the quarter and how the team have adjusted the weighting for those
• The STANLIB Equity Fund’s offshore strategy with J.P. Morgan Asset Management and the STANLIB Global Select Fund
29 Oct 2024 English South Africa Investing · Business News
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