The Reading Room

Helios looks for investment partners

Firm has about USD800m to invest in businesses in Africa

Alternative investment growth to boom in next five years

Fuelled largely by the demand for steady and strong investment returns

Investor’s Notebook: Hedge fund strategies

SA has a simple set of strategies from which to choose

Unregistered SA hedge funds to be subject to enforcement action

All South African hedge funds are at risk of regulatory and enforcement action

Africa looking at 4.5% economic growth in 2015, report shows

Future growth could be spurred by the continent’s population doubling to two billion over the next 35 years

The three myths of hedge funds

Studies show that hedge funds improve the overall risk/return characteristics of a diversified portfolio

Africans to surge up the ranks of ultra-high-net-worth individuals

Number of ultra-high net worth individuals in Africa to increase by 59% over the next 10 years

Are SA pension funds missing an opportunity?

Infrastructure and private equity could offer return premium

Industry players join Financial Services Fight Night

Fourth annual event in Cape Town raises R125,000 for the Centre for Early Childhood Development.

Fund managers bullish on equities, alternative investments

Express concern over returns from government bonds