Building The Business

Kotze relaunches under Maradia banner

Market-neutral fund continues as investment team works on suite of mandates

New-generation offering from Ashburton

Expanding FirstRand brand wades into investment management

Laurium applies talent to growing array of options

New unit trust follows launch of more aggressive long/short fund, sharing same research team

Fairtree takes on ex-Badger and ex-Momentum teams

Multi-strategy specialist adds to talent pool with volatility arbitrage and credit expertise

Mergence appoints ex-CIOs to boost team

Patric Ho and Imtiaz Ahmed to work on absolute-return and balanced mandates

Tantalum adds long-only mandates to offering

Cape Town-based team looks to diversify its asset and client base

Fairtree builds its range of skills and products

With a number of recent high-profile hires, Fairtree is ready to capture new business and deliver new investment solutions

Caveo boosts institutional offering and prepares for growth

With the recent launch of a new long/short fund and an Africa product in the pipeline, Caveo's King and Green expect clients to move up the risk-reward spectrum as they become comfortable with alternatives

Blue Ink gains traction with ‘building block’ approach

Cape Town-based Blue Ink Investments now has a 10-month formal track record with its building block portfolios, which allocate to underlying managers by strategy rather than anticipated return.

Abax in stride with third hedge fund

Cape Town-based Polaris Capital has changed its name to Abax Investments, in line with a ruling made by the South African high court that it should change the name as confusion might arise from similarity with that of an American firm.