If you’re an investor who saw offshore as off limits, there’s never been a better time to change your view. The Glacier Offshore Investment Plan is an investment solution which offers you the opportunity to invest offshore, accessing different markets and currencies with simplicity, flexibility and affordable investment minimums.

By diversifying your portfolio across various countries, regions, sectors and economies, you can benefit from growth opportunities offered by a wide range of industries, companies, currencies and investment philosophies. Diversifying your assets results in improved returns over the long term. Diversifying outside South Africa can also shield your portfolio from depreciation of the rand, which tends to be a volatile currency.

You can invest using your own foreign investment allowance (single discretionary allowance of R1m per calendar year, or foreign investment allowance of R10m per calendar year) or, if you prefer not to use it, or you have exhausted this allowance, you can make use of the asset swap capacity of select providers.