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- 5 min read
- 27 October 2026
Newsletter Edition 10

Explore Peregrine Capital Insights, your gateway to financial expertise. Discover valuable market commentary, in-depth hedge fund analysis, exclusive investor updates on fund performance, and stay current with the latest events shaping the hedge fund landscape.


Investor Communications
2026 Semi-Annual Investor Letter
From the US-Iran conflict to the AI capex cycle, our semi-annual letter sets out how the funds were positioned through a demanding first half, and why the market is underestimating the returns on AI investment, and where we see opportunity from here.




Funds Performance
A Way Off the Rand Treadmill for Local Savers
Peregrine Capital’s Alan Yates tells BusinessDay how new offshore funds, with lower minimums and daily dealing, are making it easier for ordinary South Africans to save for foreign-currency goals in the currency they will spend.


Funds Performance
Risk is What You Don’t See
In this MoneyMarketing article, Grant Dixon, Investment Specialist, discusses how the biggest risks in investing are often the ones investors don’t see and how understanding hidden risks and staying disciplined helps build portfolios that withstand market uncertainty.

In the News
Two Centuries in the Baking: Inside Premier FMCG’s Rebuild
Just two weeks into the CFO job, Kobus Gertenbach had to call the shareholder and tell them he could not make payroll. Today, he leads Premier Group as CEO. In the fourth episode of Peregrine Capital’s Building Conviction podcast, he recounts how a business written off by many was rebuilt.

In the News
Built to Be Different: Gerrie Fourie on Building Capitec into South Africa's Biggest Bank
Former Capitec CEO Gerrie Fourie tells Jacques Conradie, on Peregrine Capital's Building Conviction podcast, the story behind one of the JSE's greatest ever compounding stories.

In the News
South Africa’s Young Maths Champions Prepare to Make 24 as Peregrine Capital 24SumMore National Final Looms
Can you make 24? Grade 4 – 6 maths champions from 300+ schools compete in the Peregrine Capital 24SumMore national final in Johannesburg on 29 October 2026.

Gertenbach explains how a delisted, loss-making business that had largely been written off was rebuilt into the Premier FMCG. He covers the call to Brait when he couldn’t make payroll two weeks into the CFO job, why capital allocation is a CEO’s biggest lever for long-term value, the spaza-shop moat the critics missed, and the ambition he has set for the next five years.

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