GEPF Golf Day
RisCura was a sponsor of this year’s GEPF Golf Day on Friday, 2 November 2012, at the Centurion Country Club. 120 players enjoyed a relaxing afternoon of golf followed by dinner and prize giving. All proceeds of the day went to the GEPF’s adopted school, the Mutjoli Primary School in Soweto. RisCura appreciated the opportunity...
AfricaSIF.org Launches First-Ever Pan-African Research Project on Investment Management and ESG
– 28 September 2012 Embargoed until midnight SAST 27 September 2012 – CAPE TOWN, South Africa, 28 September 2012 – How much investment in Africa today proactively integrates environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) factors? A new research project has been launched today to find answers by mapping the marketplace for sustainable...
Driving the improvement of retirement fund investing standards
Over our twelve-year business history, the foundation of our business has been to drive the improvement of retirement fund investing standards in South Africa and beyond. Our push for technical excellence has made us develop tools for the South African and African financial services industries that assist in making the industry a more transparent, more...
RisCura’s ESG Workshop – Practical Protection of What Matters
The benefit of prioritising ESG (environmental, social and governance) issues in the investment process has become clearer. Regulation 28 and CRISA require that ESG issues be considered by trustees. Yet questions linger around the practical implementation. What are the tools and insights your fund needs to succeed? RisCura and the Principles for Responsible...
Enhanced Reporting for Better Investment Performance
How do RisCura’s clients keep better updated and informed than their investment industry peers? The answer lies in RisCura’s online client portal – providing real-time access to monitoring and reporting around every aspect of a fund’s management, performance and regulatory compliance. More than a decade...
Reg28
Getting to Grips with Regulation 28 (For information on our Namibian Regulation 28 services, please click here.) Fundamental amendments to Regulation 28 of the Pension Funds Act place complex reporting and compliance obligations on the trustees of retirement funds. Trustees must fully understand these new responsibilities if they are to integrate the...
Regulation 28: Hedge Funds Performance – The South African experience
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....
Regulation 28: Hedge Funds – Additional Scope for Pension Funds
When it comes to optimising pension fund portfolios, the new Regulation 28 of the Pension Funds Act gives trustees more arrows in their quiver. By allowing pension funds to increase their exposure to hedge funds to a maximum limit of 10% of portfolio allocation, the opportunities and potential advantages offered by hedge funds or hedge...