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OYSTER CATCHER RCIS LONG SHORT RETAIL HEDGE FUND

The Oyster Catcher Long Short Retail Hedge Fund is a long/short equity hedge fund with a four-year track record that aims to provide long-term benchmark-beating returns for investors.

The portfolio aims to deliver absolute returns in excess of the return quoted for the FTSE/JSE ALSI Total Return Index and utilises long, short and special opportunities.

 

Investment Team

The investment team is headed up by CIO Jonathan du Toit, who is supported by investment professionals: Mark du Toit, Rob Tout and Wessel Joubert.

We take pride in being a passionate, dedicated, and motivated investment team, and our process is vigorous, disciplined, and repeatable. We concentrate on adding every basis point by putting capital to work in numerous independent, appropriately sized positions.

Investment terms

Fund: OysterCatcher RCIS Long Short Retail Hedge Fund
Retail or qualified product: Retail
Hurdle rate: FTSE/JSE ALSI Total Return Index
High water mark: Yes
Fund open: Yes
Min investment: R50,000
Management fee: 1%
Performance fee: 10%
Subscription: Daily
Lockup: No
Redemption: Daily

Strategy

The fund seeks to identify mispriced securities and opportunities caused by short-term market fluctuations and to benefit from the securities returning to intrinsic value over the medium term.

We have a bottom-up valuation-based philosophy, underpinned by the following principles:

  • Establishing intrinsic value using a bottom-up research methodology
  • Opportunities are compared on a real-time ranking tableAll our positions are appropriately sized through a disciplined risk management process with many independent positions.

 

Strategy: Long/short equity
AUM: R599.294 million as at 31 July 2023
Currency: South African rand (ZAR)
Domicile: South Africa
Listing exchange: None
Inception date: 25 October 2019

Service providers

Prime broker: Rand Merchant Bank
Administrator: Realfin Fund Services Pty Ltd
Manco: Realfin Collective Investment Schemes (RF) (Pty) Ltd
Auditor: PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Legal advisor: Realfin Compliance and Risk

Contact details

Oyster Catcher Investments (Pty) Ltd
99 11th Street, Parkmore, Sandton

CEO/CIO: Jonathan du Toit
Marketing: Wessel Joubert
Phone: +27 10 013 1122
Fax: None
Email: info@oystercatcherinvestments.co.za
Website: www.oystercatcherinvestments.co.za
ISIN or ref code: ZAE000279865