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African landscape (2) – Blue Ink to launch new offshore FoFs and new incubation drive, consistent performance better than outperformance in S.A.`s conservative industry, New paper on the financial market developments in Africa: new challenges for central banks?, On old-fashioned prudence in fund management
Monday, April 07, 2008

Opalesque Exclusive: African landscape (2) – Blue Ink to launch new offshore FoFs and new incubation drive, consistent performance better than outperformance in S.A.`s conservative industry Benedicte Gravrand, Geneva: The second of an overview of the financial landscape in Africa and South Africa through a handful of fund profiles in Opalesque’s new Monday series (first profile).

Blue Ink Investments (Pty) Ltd is a discretionary financial services provider based in Cape Town, South Africa and a leader in the South African market as a provider of funds of hedge funds solutions. In November last year, the Competition Commission approved the acquisition of Blue Ink Investments by Octane Holdings, a Swiss-based independent fund of hedge funds manager (Source). So Blue Ink Investments is now owned by Octane which currently manages in excess of $1.3 billion of offshore assets for mainly institutional clients. Operationally, Blue Ink retains its independence, while synergies between the two entities are expected to be mutually beneficial. (......................

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