The de-listing trend on the JSE has reduced the universe of assets available to investors, but those assets are still out there and, in many cases, offering attractive above-average returns.
Solar energy makes perfect sense since this is a natural growth market with steady returns, born out of SA’s flaky power grid. “Stock prices are to a large extent driven by what the Federal Reserve or SA Reserve Bank is doing. We want to move away from that and look at the key drivers in a business. Nor is Fedgroup a passive investor in these markets. For example, one of its group companies, Techsitter, specialises in the internet-of-things, allowing it to monitor virtually anything in real time.
The performance net of fees came in at 12.32% over one year and 10.49% over three years, handsomely beating the benchmark return over these periods.