{"id":62991,"date":"2018-03-28T01:13:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T05:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=62991"},"modified":"2018-03-30T02:02:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T06:02:44","slug":"capricorn-hedge-funds-boost-bets-on-south-african-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2018\/capricorn-hedge-funds-boost-bets-on-south-african-firms.html","title":{"rendered":"Capricorn Hedge Funds Boost Bets on South African Firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Capricorn Fund Managers has increased its investments in companies in South Africa, signaling bullishness on the country\u2019s new leadership following Jacob Zuma\u2019s resignation as president.   The firm, which oversees $441 million in hedge fund and long-only assets from its offices in South Africa and the U.K., added to its positions in South African-based financial companies, Discovery Ltd. and FirstRand Ltd., as well as in retailers Shoprite Holdings Ltd. and Mr Price Group Ltd., according to portfolio manager David Cunio and co-Chief Investment Officer Emad Mostaque.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-03-27\/capricorn-hedge-funds-boost-bets-on-south-african-firms-q-a\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Capricorn Fund Managers has increased its investments in companies in South Africa, signaling bullishness on the country\u2019s new leadership following Jacob Zuma\u2019s resignation as president. The firm, which oversees $441 million in hedge fund and long-only assets from its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62992,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62991\/revisions\/62992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}