Fund News

All Weather bucks global market slump

All Weather Capital’s recently launched global equity hedge fund has managed to buck the recent global market slump, delivering double-digit returns in US dollars...

Mergence takes stake in rental housing project

Mergence Investment Managers, through its Infrastructure and Development Equity Fund, has acquired a controlling equity stake in a portion of the innovative affordable rental housing group, Live Easy

Protea protects against downside risks

Protea Capital Management, headed by Jean Pierre Verster, is making consistent progress with its range of hedge funds, investing long/short with a long bias...

GLIDE raises first VC fund with gender focus in Africa

GLIDE Capital Partners is raising capital for its first venture capital growth fund, with a focus on gender lens investing and supporting disadvantaged entrepreneurs...

Giantfuse plans multi-strategy launch

Sibonelo Nkosi at GiantfuseCapital Partners is launching a high-conviction multi-strategy hedge fund that invests across the capital structure in long/short credit and listed equities. GiantfuseCapital Partners is...

Coronation Presidio passes the stress tests

“We are very pleased that in its close to 20-year history the Coronation Presidio Hedge Fund has consistently beaten the market with a fraction of the...

Agrarius brings investors direct access to agriculture

Werner Opperman and Johan Fourie are the driving force behind 27four’s innovative sustainability-focused agricultural shari’ah-compliant debt funding vehicle, which listed on the JSE debt market...

Risk management helps Rainbow to pot of gold

The AG Capital Rainbow SNN Retail Hedge Fund, managed by Richard Arnesen at AG Capital in Cape Town, has achieved strong gains this year,...

Brozin and Freede focus on long/short

Sam Brozin and Josh Freede have teamed up with AG Capital where they are managing a South African long/short strategy as a closed partnership,...

All Weather bucks market trend with global hedge

All Weather Capital has recently launched a Global Equity Hedge Fund, managed by CIO and lead fund manager Shane Watkins and co-fund manager Cobus...