Can fixed income funds continue performing?
Bilal Haffejee, of Rand Merchant Bank Fixed Income Prime Broking, looks at the recent performance of fixed income hedge funds and what the future holds....
“Beneficial ownership” and the tax efficient structuring of hedge funds
Maitland's Clayton Bonnette examines various structuring options and their benefits...
Implications of revised Reg 28 draft governing pension fund investments
Cape Town-based attorney Rifke Gellman takes an indepth look at what the revised draft means for South Africa's alternative asset management industry...
South Africa Hedge Fund Survey – September 2010
This report marks the seventh edition of Novare® Investments' annual survey of the South African hedge fund industry.
The proposed new Regional Investment Fund Regime
A surprise inclusion in South Africa’s Taxation Laws Amendment Bill of 2010 is a proposal to introduce a so-called "Regional Investment Fund Regime'.
Going pair-shaped?
We are currently seeing something of a minor crisis in the pair-trade space, with many practitioners complaining that the pair-trade alpha of old is no longer as easy to extract.
Africa fund industry evolves, Novare research finds
Novare Investments' inaugural report on African-focused fund managers maps the listed African space as an investment destination
Short selling – a South African perspective:
During October 2008 the US and UK regulators temporally banned short sales on certain
financial stocks. This controversial topic has become
African fund industry grows more sophisticated
Experienced talent at work in frontier markets, Novare survey finds, against backdrop of strong growth and good macroeconomic prospects