Investors recognise that there are strong reasons to invest offshore, including diversification benefits, access to asset classes, industries, and firms not available in South Africa, lower emerging-market and South Africa-specific risk, and the preservation of "hard" currency spending power. However, they tend to spend an extraordinary amount of time trying to predict the direction of the currency. Chantal Marx, Head of equity research at FNB Wealth and Investments and Ray White to discuss offshore Investing: Does the Rand Really Matter.