Hedge Fund Guide 2025

Mazi Asset Management – African Roots. Global Vision.

Mazi Asset Management is a world-class fund manager rooted in African heritage that believes in the power of diversity and its ability to deliver results operating as a fundamental bottom-up asset manager.

The power in blending hedge funds

Jacques de Kock (Portfolio Manager, MitonOptimal) reveals the secret sauce that powers hedge funds.

Investing’s holy grail? 

Investors are often confronted with a range of considerations, from how to access hedge funds, to which strategies to choose and whether hedge funds are appropriate for their portfolios, writes Jean-Pierre Matthews of Matrix Fund Managers

Matrix Fund Managers

Matrix Fund Managers is a Cape Town-based, owner-managed investment firm managing client investments of nearly R35-billion

Laurium Capital

Laurium Capital is an employee-owned boutique asset manager, offering several hedge and long-only funds to South African and global investors.

Edify Fund Managers

Edify, located in Paarl, is a 100% owner-managed discretionary fund manager (DFM) with a client base of 20 financial advisors and an AUM of R1.5-billion.

Focused long-term returns

Leandro Gastaldi, Portfolio Manager at Blue Quadrant Capital Management, outlines the firm’s Macrovalue approach – combining macro themes with valuation to generate uncorrelated returns.

Blue Quadrant Capital Management

Blue Quadrant Capital Management is a specialist South African hedge fund and unit trust investment manager.

Diversification is the only free lunch

Corion Capital is a pioneer of the South African hedge fund industry whose funds have been able to comfortably outperform their benchmarks since inception and with lower volatility. Blue Chip speaks to Garreth Montano, CEO, Corion Capital.

Corion Capital

Corion, previously a division of Brait Ltd, was founded in 2001 and continues to deliver market-leading risk-adjusted returns, nearly 25 years later.
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Enhancing value and diversification

Independent Investment Solutions’ Michael Badenhorst shares why DFMs are important in the grand scheme of investment solutions.

Conversations over calculus

Deon Gouws (Chief Investment Officer, Credo, London) talks about why smart people make money mistakes.

The behavioural alpha – hedge funds offer more than an investment solution

The decision to invest in a hedge fund often isn’t an attempt to beat the market in a purely mathematical sense or simply to achieve an investment objective. Instead, it is a behavioural strategy – a way to manage the psychological friction of long-term investing.

The benefits of incorporating hedge funds into long-only portfolios

The performance review of hedge funds showed that there is clear investment merit in investing in hedge funds, not only for the potential downside protection that is at the core of the hedge fund proposition, but also for the absolute returns that hedge funds can generate.

From prime to repo: a cleaner benchmark for a lower-rate South Africa

Most people know their loan is priced at “prime plus or minus a percentage”. But what exactly is prime, asks Razeen Dinath of Fundhouse?
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