Mazi funds target positive returns on capital invested, irrespective of market conditions.

Investment decisions are predominantly bottom up and based on in-depth research of company and sector fundamentals. The funds are net long and carry limited derivative positions. The average holding period for counters in the portfolios, longs and shorts, is in excess of 12 months.

Strategies employed include:

  • Individual long, over/underweight positions
  • Arbitrage - correlated and uncorrelated
  • Event-driven opportunities - takeovers, mergers and de-mergers, de-listings, etc.
  • Particular sector exposures
  • Listed debt instruments
     

Administrator: IDS (Investment Data Services (Pty) Ltd)

  • Ancilla Fund
    - Client: Bayswater
    - Fund launch: August 2007

  • Long/Short Mazi Visio Market Neutral Fund
    - Administrator: IDS (Investment Data Services Pty Ltd)
    - Clients: Various fund of funds, multi managers and family offices
    - Issuer: Mazi Visio Manco
    - Fund launch: November 2006

  • Mazi Visio Market Neutral Offshore Segregated Portfolio
    - Administrator: Swiss Fund Services Ltd.
    - Clients: South African Alpha Capital Management
    - Fund launch: May 2008

Administrator: Prescient (Pty) Ltd.

  • 27Four Mazi Fund 1      
    - Client and Issuer: 27Four      
    - Fund launch: November 2007

  • 27Four Mazi Fund 2      
    - Client and Issuer: 27Four      
    - Fund launch: December 2008

Self Administered:

  • Public Investment Corporation Portfolio
    - Client and Issuer: Government Employee Pension Fund, Public Investment Corporation
    - Fund launch: August 2009

  • GIPF Portfolio
    - Client and Issuer: Government Institutional Pension Fund
    - Fund launch: April 2010

  • Sygnia Life Portfolio
    - Client and Issuer: Sygnia Life Limited
    - Fund launch: December 2009

  • Investment Solutions Life Portfolio
    - Client and Issuer: Investment Solutions Limited
    - Fund launch: February 2011

  • Metropolitan Emerging Managers Fund      
    - Clients: Various unit trust clients      
    - Fund launch: September 2007      
    - Issuer: Metropolitan Life
    - Administrator: JP Morgan (Pty) Ltd

  • Mazi Capital Equity Fund      
    - Clients:  Various unit trust & institutional clients      
    - Fund launch: August 2010      
    - Issuer: Prescient Investment Managers

 

Fund fact sheet is available for the Mazi Unit Trust : Click here

Ranking:

  • 1 month- ranked no. 14 out of 130
  • 3 month- ranked no. 1 out of 126
  • 6 month- ranked no. 4 out of 123
  • 1yr- ranked no. 5 out of 1119

 

As at 11 January 2012

 

 

 

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