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By Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque London: South African hedge funds have encountered a diversification problem within their investor-base since the very beginning. That is despite the market’s sophistication, the stable economy, and the fact that skills in alternative investments have been perfecting over the last 11 years.

The investor-base diversification is a problem which Peregrine Prime is tackling head-on by putting together an Capital Introduction Event on 13-14 November in Cape Town (details here), following Terrapinn’s World Africa Hedge Funds Conference on 10-12 November. Here is an opportunity to come out to SA and review the industry during the conference and meet the managers during the Cap Intro Event.

The one outstanding feature of the local hedge fund market has been the relatively large amounts of alpha that have been generated by hedge fund managers over time, explained Jan van Niekerk (CIO of Citadel, Peregrine Holding’s wealth management division), in an article. This source of alpha is also becoming accessible to foreign investors, as some of the fund managers have already set up offshore structures that invest into South Africa. Most of these are available on a currency hedged basis.

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