Verster’s Protea range makes steady progress
Hybrid "man and machine" style pays off as automation brings breadth to proprietary quantamental process
Prime backs alternative ideas
Investors are looking for new ideas and alternative sources of return, and talented managers are responding, notes Steve Pratt of Prime Asset Managers
How hedge funds can help living annuities
Living annuities need to provide regular income, and are thus particularly exposed to the suppressed market performance of recent years. THINK.CAPITAL's Elmien Wagenaar suggests how hedge funds can help
The opportunity cost of carry
Marble Rock's Rick Walker looks at the actual return on offshore investment, and weighs up the opportunity cost of carry
Co-investing offers opportunity
Does co-investing offer opportunity in the South African hedge fund market? Industry veteran Ian Hamilton sees the potential
A fragile global economy sets the scene for Q2
This quarter’s bumper edition comes amid renewed concerns in global markets, after a changeable and challenging start to the year.
“The global economy is fragile....
Momentum rolls out replication strategy
Momentum's Alternative Equity Beta Fund can be combined to good effect with its actively managed multi-manager mandates
CDAM taps South African market
London-based independent asset manager CDAM (UK) Limited offers global hedged and long-only solutions, giving access to a concentrated portfolio of developed-world securities
Acanthin at three-year mark
Harry Singh's South African long/short strategy has delivered a net annualised return of almost 10% since inception in September 2015
Strong decade for Chrysalis
Cape Town-based Chrysalis Capital has reached the 10-year mark as a business, with its Chrysalis Credit Arbitrage Fund achieving positive returns each month since inception in August 2008