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Methodical moves into hedge fund space

Methodical Investment Management in Cape Town is moving into the hedge fund space, with the recent launch of a systematic multi-strategy hedge fund managed...

Visio sees further gains for hedge funds

Visio Fund Managers, headed by CIO and founder Patrice Moyal, has built a solid 20-year track record, offering a comprehensive fund range catering to...

BBBEE consortium acquires stake in Apex Group South Africa

Ditikeni Trust has sold their minority stake to a 100% black-owned consortium led by Mcebisi Jonas and Noluthando Gosa

Harith acquires significant stake in Mergence Investment Managers

Harith General Partners, the leading Pan-African investor and developer of infrastructure projects across the continent, is set to acquire a significant stake (46%) in Mergence...

Mazi NextGen goes live with innovative fund

Stephán Engelbrecht and Alungile Gcaza at Mazi NextGen launched their hedge fund on October 2, incorporating innovative machine learning techniques. Mazi NextGen is a partnership with...

Mid-tier private equity thriving in current environment, says OMPE

Private equity investments into mid-tier companies are very viable in the current environment, notes Ria Papier of Old Mutual Private Equity, which is seeing...

Belmont offers best-of-breed hedge fund access

New York headquartered Belmont Investments, which offers access to best-of-breed global hedge fund managers, has established a qualified investor hedge fund (QIF) for South...

Hedge funds gaining retail traction, notes Unum Capital

South African hedge funds are beginning to make significant progress in attracting retail clients, according to Mark Weetman at Unum Capital. Unum is a non-traditional,...

Odey debacle highlights importance of operational controls

Whatever the truth of allegations of sexual impropriety by Crispin Odey, some of the drawbacks of his approach were already in the numbers, writes Neil Wilson 

Achieving wider reach

“You can get lucky for 10 years but it is difficult to do so for much longer.” This is the opinion of Jeremy O’Friel...