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Badsha delivers in year one

Bulent Badsha at Sanlam Alternative Investments has clocked up a steady first year with his macro hedge fund, gaining a net 5.9% in the...

Prescient extends quant range

Dr Nafees Hossain moves ahead with plans to extend quant hedge fund range, joined by Wayne Gray

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...