MAZI NEXTGEN LONG SHORT

Mazi Asset Management, founded in 2006 by Malungelo Zilimbola, blends global investment expertise with African heritage to create a world-class asset management firm. We are a Level 1 B-BBEE asset manager overseeing in excess of R50 billion of client assets.

Mazi NextGen Long Short Prescient RI Hedge Fund
The fund is a South African long/short fund that uses machine learning as a differentiator. The fund’s objective is to provide investors with a superior risk-adjusted return over medium- and
long-term investment horizons. The fund utilises new and proprietary machine learning techniques to identify investment opportunities and optimise portfolio construction.
The portfolio seeks to capitalise on investment opportunities across all sectors and has maximum flexibility to invest in a wide range of instruments including equities, scrip loans, debt instruments
(both sovereign and corporate), derivatives, commodities, preference shares, money market instruments, unit trusts, closed-end funds and ETFs.
The fund is managed by Stephán Engelbrecht and Alungile Gaza.

INVESTMENT TEAM

Stephán Engelbrecht began his investment career in 2004 and joined Mazi Asset Management in 2022. He is passionate about structured, systematic, and quantitative investment techniques. His expertise in data-driven decision-making has been instrumental to his role at Mazi. He is currently completing a PhD in Finance at Wits, with a focus on machine learning in investment management— further deepening his quantitative approach to portfolio management.

Alungile Gcaza is an experienced quantitative analyst with a strong background in data-driven approach to finance. He began his investment career in 2018 at Prescient Securities. Since joining Mazi Asset Management in 2022, he has been part of the NextGen team, where he focuses on machine learning–driven investment strategies.