The Power of Portfolio Protection: How hedge funds can help smooth the ride for investors

While hedge funds have been around for well over two decades in South Africa, they have only recently become easily accessible to most retail investors.

Last April, host Stephen Backhouse was joined by Peregrine Capital CEO and Portfolio Manager, Jacques Conradie, to explore some of the major talking points as the asset class became more topical.

About the Webinar

In the webinar, we delved into:

• What had driven the interest in hedge funds amongst private investors
• The commonalities and differences between hedge funds and traditional unit trusts
• The additional tools available to hedge fund managers
• When and why investors would benefit from exposure to this asset class
• Some of the myths and misperceptions around hedge funds

The learning outcomes were:

• What hedge funds are and how they differed from other CIS unit trusts
• What additional tools hedge fund managers could use in their funds that long-only managers could not
• What potential advantages hedge funds could bring to a well-balanced portfolio
• How hedge funds fit into portfolios within a regulation 28 compliant construct