OMAI fuels youth empowerment with R400 million injection
Hybrid Equity, a division of Old Mutual Alternative Investments (OMAI), has made a R400 million funding commitment to the Tutuwa Community Trust to amplify South African youth education and empowerment initiatives
Wealthy investors convinced by alternative investments
High-net-worth investors “remain absolutely convinced” by alternative investments, including venture capital, cryptocurrencies, structured products, and hedge funds - despite a wider slowdown of inflows...
How hybrid equity is changing the investment game
The private asset class of hybrid equity continues to gain traction as the world grapples with market turmoil, uncertainty and volatility, with its performance and diversification...
Africa: Resilience in the private equity market
by Angela Simpson and Lydia Shadrach-Razzino, partners and co-heads of the Corporate/M&A Practice, Baker McKenzie, Johannesburg
Using hedge funds to combat sequence risk
When it comes to investing, we often get told to not time the market. In reality, timing is everything. Stash Martins at 36ONE discusses how hedge funds can help combat sequence risk.
Pension funds hold key to unlocking infrastructure opportunity
The South African investment community and pension funds, in particular, are sitting on the cusp of an infrastructure boom that provides an excellent opportunity...
Portable alpha strategies – guarding against the “unknown unknowns”
Fixed income hedge funds are a strong contender for inclusion
in portable alpha strategies, writes Jeleze Hattingh at Southchester
An ESG view from Africa: Embedding social factors critical to meeting...
In the final part of our ESG series with RMB, Elena Ilkova discusses how embedding social factors is critical to achieving environmental impact goals
Tech trumps industrialisation in Africa’s agenda 2063
In the second part of our ESG series with RMB, Titus Nampala describes how technology, rather than industrialisation, is a better focus for Africa’s ageing Agenda 2063
Inequality and energy transition: navigating competing priorities
In the first of our ESG series from RMB, Nikki Griffiths explains how the green economy brings Inclusive growth opportunities