The Oyster Catcher Smart Alpha Retail Hedge Fund is a low volatility market neutral equity hedge fund with a one-year track record, aiming to provide long-term benchmark-beating returns for investors.
The portfolio aims to deliver absolute returns in excess of CPI + 2% and utilises long, short and special opportunities.
Investment Team
The investment team is headed up by CIO Jonathan du Toit, who is supported by investment professionals: Mark du Toit, Rob Tout and Wessel Joubert.
We pride ourselves on being a passionate, focused and motivated investment team and our process is vigorous, disciplined, and repeatable. We focus on adding each basis point by putting capital to work in many independent, appropriately sized positions.
Fund: OysterCatcher RCIS Smart Alpha Retail Hedge Fund
Retail or qualified product: Retail
Hurdle rate: CPI + 2%
High water mark: Yes
Fund open: Yes
Min investment: R50,000
Management fee: 1%
Performance fee: 15%
Subscription: Daily
Lockup: No
Redemption: Daily
Investment Strategy
The fund seeks to identify mispriced securities and opportunities caused by short-term market fluctuations and aims to benefit from these securities returning to intrinsic value over the medium term.
We have a bottom-up valuation-based philosophy, underpinned by the following principles:
Strategy: low volatility market neutral equity
AUM: R86 428 785 (30 August 2024)
Currency: ZAR
Domicile: South Africa
Listing exchange: none
Inception date: 14 October 2022
Prime broker: ABSA
Administrator: Realfin Fund Services Pty Ltd
Management company: Realfin Collective Investment Schemes (RF) (Pty) Ltd
Auditor: PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Legal advisor: Realfin Compliance and Risk
Oyster Catcher Investments (Pty) Ltd
99 11th Street, Parkmore, Sandton
CEO/CIO: Jonathan du Toit
Marketing: Wessel Joubert
Phone: +27 10 013 1122
Fax: none
Email: info@oystercatcherinvestments.co.za
Website: www.oystercatcherinvestments.co.za
ISIN or ref code: ZAE000317145