Allan Gray

since 1973
  • 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Financial Services

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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Global talent, local rules: Foreign national members and South African retirement funds
  • 04 Mar 2026

Employing foreign nationals is a common and legally recognised practice in South Africa. Nevertheless, recurring questions arise about retirement fund participation, with uncertainty around fund me...

By Allan Gray In Wealth Practice, Emerging Markets
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The shifting role of retirement fund advisers in South Africa
  • 03 Mar 2026

South Africa’s retirement industry is evolving...

By Allan Gray In Wealth Practice, Emerging Markets
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2026 Budget: A good news story
  • 25 Feb 2026

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivered the 2026 Budget speech on Wednesday, 25 February, remaining steadfast in his earlier assurances that the governme...

By Allan Gray In Macro
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Bracket creep: The silent tax
  • 19 Feb 2026

Each year we listen with bated breath to the Minister of Finance’s annual Budget speech to learn whether tax rates will increase and breathe a sigh of relief...

By Allan Gray In Wealth Practice, Macro, Fixed Income
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How to outsmart behavioural biases when investing – with Dr Daniel Crosby
  • 18 Feb 2026

For many investors, 2025 intensified the behavioural pressures that shape investment decisions. Markets reached record highs, even as global growth slowed and political tides turned across major ec...

By Allan Gray In Equities, Macro
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2026: A defining year for South Africa’s political direction
  • 11 Feb 2026

2026 is set to be a defining political year in South...

By Allan Gray In Emerging Markets, Macro
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Don’t just stand there
  • 11 Feb 2026

At the Allan Gray Fund Provider 2026, held on 4 and 5 February 2026, Mark Dunley-Owen, portfolio manager at our offshore partner, Orbis, shared updates on th...

By Allan Gray In Portfolio Construction
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In conversation with chief investment officers
  • 11 Feb 2026

Markets have entered 2026 against the backdrop of...

By Allan Gray
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Taking advantage of opportunities in the fixed interest and income universe
  • 11 Feb 2026

Evolving macroeconomic drivers such as interest...

By Allan Gray In Macro, Fixed Income
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