The Investor - Moneyweb's monthly investment magazine Issue 6 | Page 39

A buy and hold strategy doesn't work. At the time of the market crash on Monday August 24, Winston Floquet was returning home from watching the mountain gorillas in the Virunga National Park, Rwanda. Even if he had been in the office, its unlikely that he would have made major changes to the multi-asset flexible funds that he manages, the Flagship IP Worldwide Flexible Fund and the Worldwide Flexible Fund of Funds. Neville Chester, who manages Market Plus, Coronation’s worldwide multi-asset flexible fund with Pallavi Ambekar, was in the office in Cape Town at the time. But he too, did not over-react to the chaos in the market. Profile-pic-1“We are a fundamental house, and as far as we ca