Man versus machine
Quant funds are gaining in prominence, but human intellect remains key across all hedge fund businesses
Hearn zones in with asymmetry
Kenny Hearn, who is running Cape Town-based Asymmetry A, a private hedge fund, believes there is a new wave of asset management on the...
Balanced approach pays off for Obsidian
Johannesburg-based Obsidian Capital, founded by industry veterans Royce Long and Richard Simpson, is making steady progress with its multi-asset and long/short retail investor hedge...
Paragon uses artificial intelligence
The strategy is designed to have a low correlation to other asset classes, largely driven by an evolving set of diversified trading algorithms that profit from uncorrelated market phenomena
Empiric adds South African strategies
Empiric Capital, a scientific data-driven investment firm headquartered in London and Cape Town, has successfully deployed its algorithmic strategies
Matrix delivers across product range
Cape Town-based specialist investment house Matrix Fund Managers, which has been in existence for more than 10 years, is progressively building its multi-faceted business...
Consistency is key for Abax
Cape Town-based Abax Investments, which runs a range of hedge fund and long-only mandates, has an established investment team and a bottom-up, fundamental research-driven approach to investing
Fairtree’s Blackwood comes of age
The commodities team at Fairtree Capital has carefully honed its philosophy and processes in the past 18 months, reaching a new level of maturity...
Witten gets going at Solaris Bataung
Mark Witten at Solaris Bataung Capital has a four-month record with his new fund, a South African multi-strategy product built on his many years...
Edge Growth aims for job creation
Growth capital and impact investing firm Edge Growth, which specialises in funding for small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), is fund raising for its fifth...