{"id":841028,"date":"2025-10-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=841028"},"modified":"2025-10-27T08:56:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T06:56:04","slug":"business-talk-glacier-international-md-hildegard-wilson-on-the-changing-investment-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/841028\/business-talk-glacier-international-md-hildegard-wilson-on-the-changing-investment-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 Glacier International MD Hildegard Wilson on the changing investment landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this Business Talk with Michael Avery interview, Hildegard Wilson discusses how the investment landscape is changing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilson is the Managing Director of Glacier International \u2013 an international investment platform that lets you diversify your portfolio across countries and currencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has 19 years of financial services industry experience, including time as a product actuary in investments at Momentum, and as an asset consultant with NMG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2023, she was appointed as the Head of Investment Solutions within the broader Glacier Business Development team, before taking on her current role earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilson studied at the University of Pretoria and is a qualified actuary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, as well as an Honours degree in Actuarial Mathematics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilson is also a fellow of the Actuarial Society of South Africa, and the current chair of its Investment Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The interview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In this Business Talk interview, Wilson explains why South Africans should consider investing a portion of their savings offshore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She expands on what geographic and currency diversification mean in practical terms for local investors, before highlighting that this approach is not only for the wealthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilson then discusses Regulation 28, which allows investors to allocate up to 45% offshore within their retirement funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also unpacks the difference between a feeder fund and an offshore investment, and concludes the interview by highlighting additional opportunities of investing offshore \u2013 specifically regarding sectors that are underrepresented locally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the full interview with Hildegard Wilson, below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZHoEeRTNWKE?si=O_7TNcpR3CLpbus6\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hildegard Wilson explains why South Africans should consider investing a portion of their savings offshore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":841029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[15578,23914,23915],"class_list":["post-841028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-business-talk","tag-glacier-international","tag-hildegard-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841032,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841028\/revisions\/841032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}