Symposium 2025: Investment ideas in an uncertain world
Investec's Simbai Myezwa catches the gist of Symposium 2025 - where hedge funds demonstrate their ability as alpha generators despite global uncertainties
Abax continues strategic growth journey
Cape Town-based multi-asset boutique Abax Investments, founded in 2003, continues its strategic growth journey with the appointment of Lebo Thubisi as deputy CEO.
Thubisi is...
Productive year for Peregrine Capital
Peregrine Capital’s hedge funds had a productive 2024, with its High Growth and Pure Hedge funds delivering a respective net 22% and 15.8%, one of...
Phaladi builds at REGIVE Capital
Johannesburg-based REGIVE Capital, headed by Given Phaladi, is building a strong financial services business, offering discretionary investment management and advisory services to institutional investors, with...
Corkin delves deep with Steyn GEM fund
More than a decade of intensive research preceded the launch of the Steyn Capital Global Emerging Markets Hedge Fund in February 2022, according to portfolio manager...
AG’s Renegade eyes dangerous markets
“This is the most dangerous market profile I have ever seen,” notes global macro manager Joe Bassett at AG Capital, who is mindful of...
Tindlund focuses on agility with new Abax fund
Andreas Tindlund at Abax Investments has launched the Abax Agile Fixed Income Prescient RHF, taking a tactical and flexible approach to the South African...
Meeting change head-on: post-election operational strategies for South African investment managers
Both traditional equity long-only managers and hedge funds must navigate change with precision, building on their expertise to identify and capitalise on market dislocations, writes Joel Burnette at Enfusion
Peregrine Capital embraces optimism
The political landscape has been under an unusual amount of scrutiny at Johannesburg-based Peregrine Capital this year, with its team discussing and debating various...
Flexibility key to long-term gains, says Obsidian
Flexibility is the key to long-term gains in a market cycle that is hard to call with many cross currents at play, according to...