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LAURIUM CAPITAL

Laurium Capital is an independent, owner managed boutique asset manager, offering active strategies across equities, fixed income, multi-asset and alternatives to institutions, advisors and individual investors, with over 15 years of top quartile performance. The highly skilled team of investment professionals manages over R50 billion combining on-the-ground research with extensive local market knowledge to seek investment opportunities. Our skills in stock selection, combined with disciplined portfolio construction and risk management processes have delivered superior risk-adjusted returns over time.

Investment terms

Laurium Market Neutral Prescient RI Hedge fund
Laurium Long Short Prescient RI Hedge fund

Hurdle rate: STeFI index money market rate
High water mark: Yes
Fund open: Yes
Minimum investment: R20,000
Management fee: 1%
Performance fee: 20%
Subscription: Manco: Monthly / LISPs: Daily
Redemption: Manco: Monthly / LISPs: Daily
Retail or qualified product: Retail product


Laurium Aggressive Long Short Prescient QI Hedge fund

Hurdle rate: STeFI index money market rate
High water mark: Yes
Minimum investment: R1 million
Management fee: 1%
Performance fee: 20%
Subscription: Monthly
Redemption: Monthly
Retail or qualified product: Qualified product

Strategy

Laurium Market Neutral Prescient RI Hedge Fund
The Fund is registered as a Retail Investor Hedge Fund and is suitable for conservative investors looking for real returns with low risk of capital loss. The Fund’s investment objective is to generate an absolute monthly return with a target net annual return of 5% above SA inflation over a rolling 3-year period.

Laurium Long Short Prescient RI Hedge Fund
The Fund is Laurium’s longest-running fund since inception in August 2008. The Fund is registered as a Retail Investor Hedge Fund and is suitable for investors looking to capture upside in the equity markets while preserving capital on the downside. The Fund aims to deliver a return of 7% per annum greater than SA inflation on a rolling 3-year basis with lower volatility relative to the JSE FTSE All Share Index.

Laurium Aggressive Long Short Prescient QI Fund
The Fund is a more aggressive version of our Laurium Long Short Prescient RI Fund. The Fund aims to deliver a return of at least 10% p.a. above the SA Consumer Price Index on a rolling 3-year basis and has a higher volatility profile than the Laurium Long Short RI Hedge Fund. The Fund is registered as a Qualified Investor Hedge Fund and is suitable for investors looking to leverage the SA equity markets performance.

Service providers

Prime brokers: RMB, Standard Bank, JP Morgan, Investec, Peresec
Administrator: Maitland Investor Services
Auditor: Ernst & Young Incorporated
Legal advisor: Webber Wentzel
Manco: Prescient

Contact details

Laurium Capital (Pty) Ltd,
9th Floor, 90 Grayston, 90 Grayston Drive,
Sandown, Johannesburg, 2196

Founders: Murray Winckler, Gavin Vorwerg
COO: Mark Preston
Marketing: Kim Zietsman
Email: ir@lauriumcapital.com