Allan Gray

Est. 1973
1,001-5,000 employees Financial Services

About Allan Gray

We are Africa’s largest privately-owned and independent investment management company. We are focused on generating long-term wealth for our clients who include individuals, retirement funds, insurers, trusts, companies and foundations. They invest through our focused range of unit trusts, retirement products and life insurance investment pools or in segregated portfolios.

Our employees are our most important differentiator; we invest in them for the long term. We have over 1 200 employees spread across our Cape Town headquarters, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Durban offices. We also have offices in Windhoek, Namibia, and Gaborone, Botswana.

Allan Gray Proprietary Limited is an authorised financial services provider.

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Developed market government borrowing costs are at a 20-year flashpoint
  • 23 Jul 2026

Developed market bonds are trading near their yield highs, or price lows, last seen 15 to 20 years ago. While inflation is partly to blame, another factor is...

By Allan Gray In Fixed Income, Macro
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Long-term investing in a short-term world
  • 23 Jul 2026

A long-term mindset is essential to successful investing, but staying invested through difficult periods is not always easy. Investors do not only experience...

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Managing risk in bullish markets
  • 23 Jul 2026

At Allan Gray, we base investment decisions on our assessment of the long-term economics of each underlying business and the risk of permanent capital loss....

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Orbis Global Cautious: A disciplined approach to risk and return
  • 23 Jul 2026

Carefully balancing risk and return has become increasingly important in an investment environment marked by volatility and uncertainty. Mark Dunley-Owen fro...

By Allan Gray In Sustainability
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What you own in this crazy world
  • 23 Jul 2026

Behind every share price is a real business, employing people, serving customers and owning brands, products and assets that many of us encounter in our dail...

By Allan Gray In Macro
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Your retirement, your choices: Making sense of the options
  • 23 Jul 2026

While individual goals differ when it comes to investing for retirement, the core objectives remain the same: to accumulate sufficient assets during one’s...

By Allan Gray In Wealth Practice
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Needles in a haystack: Finding the compounders that drive long-term equity returns
  • 15 Jul 2026

While a small number of businesses generate a disproportionate share of long-term equity market returns, identifying them is far more difficult than it appea...

By Allan Gray In Equities
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The in-between years: investing for retirement as careers and lives grow
  • 14 Jul 2026

As careers progress and lives take shape, investing for retirement can feel easy to defer. This in‑between phase – typically your 30s and 40s, when you are n...

By Allan Gray In Wealth Practice
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Orbis Global Balanced: The value of patient research
  • 13 Jul 2026

Drawing on the Orbis Global Balanced Fund's long-standing investment in the Irish banks, Alec Cutler from our offshore partner, Orbis, illustrates how...

By Allan Gray In Equities, Industry
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