Wow, Le Tour de France never fails to delight!

The cycling is a wonderful test of athletic endurance. Wow, isn’t the scenery beautiful? Le Tour takes the viewer on a spectacular journey as the route meanders through the most beautiful villages, passed quaint medieval churches, along mountain roads, farms and valleys. It is simply a magnificent sight!

Those of you who are watching, glued to your television sets, may have noticed that Marriott Income Specialists are sponsoring the television rights in South Africa. They are advertising a very attractive offshore product!

The Marriott First World Hybrid Real Estate Fund is a real estate investment company that invests in a combination of direct real estate and listed real estate investment trusts. The objective of this Fund is to combine the benefits of direct and listed First World real estate to generate a reliable, predictable and growing Sterling income. With the majority of the return generated from the income yield, the investment outcome can be anticipated with a reasonable degree of certainty.

Here are the latest performance figures:

Marriott’s First World Hybrid Fund Returns

Drone footage of three key properties can be viewed via this link First World Hybrid Property video. The properties featured in this footage are:

Crown Packaging Manufacturing – Leicester
Keepmoat – Lakeside, Doncaster
Wickes – Grimsby, East Lincolnshire

When is the right time to invest offshore?

The spreadsheet attached allows investors to input their capital available and to see how the strengthening or weakening of the currency will affect their investment. Over the past 10 years the South African Rand has depreciated against Sterling on average by 2% per year. Were this to continue over the next 10 years then £1 British pound would cost a South African investor more than R21.