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title: "Regulation 28: Hedge Funds Performance – The South African experience"
date: 2012-05-24T10:00:34Z
modified: 2026-06-02T13:52:59Z
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In the previous article on hedge funds, we mentioned that the South African hedge fund industry is relatively young compared to the global market. The first South African hedge fund was launched in 1998, a fair few decades after the fund started by Alfred Winslow Jones in 1949 in the United States.