Fund Profiles

Ngwedi prepares alternatives offering

Second phase of the business will include private credit, private equity and hedge fund solutions for a sophisticated client base

Hoff and Hechter on track at Musgrave

Damon Hoff and Liam Hechter have forged a robust partnership at London-based Musgrave Capital Partners

Metsi Pan Africa takes bottom-up approach

This conservative fund manager discerns between information and intelligence by travelling widely and tapping into a wide range of perspectives

Optis focuses on the long term

Van Wyngaarden’s unconstrained global investment thesis is based on identifying high-conviction positions that he holds for a number of years, combined with being defensive during market meltdowns

ASOC preps second distressed fund

Africa Special Opportunities Capital (ASOCapital) will be raising capital from mid-year for its second fund, a special opportunities private equity fund that seeks to...

X-Chequer delivers in tough year

After a “bittersweet” 2018, Werner Prinsloo and his team at X-Chequer Fund Management are looking forward to the next 12 months

Westbrooke targets high-yield debt

Richard Asherson is building a diversified portfolio of higher-yielding private debt opportunities investing predominantly in the UK

Courtney takes active approach

Part of the Prime manco and advised by Courtney Capital, the multi-strategy hedge fund product is an actively traded QIF that focuses mostly on the South African markets

Verster’s Protea range makes steady progress

Hybrid "man and machine" style pays off as automation brings breadth to proprietary quantamental process

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