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The Peregrine group is a leading provider of wealth and alternative asset management solutions, with operations in South Africa and the UK, as well as offices in the Channel Islands.

The group operates in the fields of Private Client Wealthcare, South African and global hedge fund of funds and single manager hedge funds, as well as traditional long-only asset management. The group further houses one of South Africa's leading derivative, equity and prime broking operations.
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Andre Tonkin and Leila Lederman, of Peregrine Portfolio Innovation in Johannesburg, talk to Africa FM about some hidden gems on the continent.

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With the Pan-African region holding opportunities for new investors and new products, Byron Green, of Caveo Fund Solutions, explains how this potential led to the birth of the Africa Fund.

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Picking the right equity manager can help you outperform the equity index, but what happens in a year when equity is down say, thirty per cent?

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Leverage is generally considered a key ingredient of what hedge funds do. Indeed, it is widely recognised as a distinguishing aspect of the hedge fund industry, especially because most of the headline-grabbing news, whether good or bad, comes from highly leveraged funds. Long Term Capital Management remains the superstar in this highly competitive field, having famously posted a loss of US$4.6 billion in 1998 on the back of leverage of more than 25 to 1, or, in absolute terms, exposure of around $125 billion based on equity of around $5 billion.

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The debate around the justification for hedge fund fees has been raging for years but, in our view, the debate should be a simple one as the market mechanism of supply and demand has to work. The best managers that provide highly desirable return streams (net of fees) should be able to charge the fees they require to keep the talent that delivers those returns and also to support an operational backbone that maximises the clients’ positive experience while minimising operational risk. In the same way that tech¬nology giant Apple’s product innovation and user-experience have created valuable cus¬tomer goodwill, the best hedge fund manag¬ers (with great track records) have delivered a superior product and created customer value far exceeding the price the customer has paid.

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