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October 19, 2011, 4:25 pm
HFM Week Magazine Article
Barak Fund Management Limited talks to HFMW eek about the advantages of being based in Africa, having a durable track record and bringing a unique commodity flavour to alternative investment...
October 19, 2011, 4:14 pm
Africa Fund Manager Performance Awards Oct 2011
Barak Structured Trade Finance Fund winner of the category "Africa Fund of the Year (ex Equity)"
September 19, 2011, 4:28 pm
Focus on Emerging Africa
Barak Fund Management Limited talks to HFMW eek about the advantages of being based in Africa, having a durable track record and bringing a unique commodity flavour to alternative investment.
July 29, 2011, 11:57 am
Harvesting Returns
Investing in Agriculture Could Be a Sound Long-Term Strategy to Boost Portfolio Returns, and Help to Solve the Food Crisis. The recent spikes in the price of food, which have acted as a catalyst to protests across the developing world, are a short-term manifestation of a long-term trend: That of high and rising agricultural commodity prices. But getting investment exposure to this long-term upswing in prices, without falling foul of the inevitable short-term volatility, is a conundrum that is proving hard to unravel.
July 29, 2011, 12:01 pm
Chinas Investment in Africa to Increase
Chinas Investment in Africa may rise by 70 percent to $50 billion by 2015 from 2009, as the Asian nation seeks to acquire resources, Standard Bank Group Ltd. said. Bilateral trade between China and Africa will reach $300 billion by 2015, double the 2010 level, Africa\'s largest lender said today in a report.
July 29, 2011, 11:48 am
Barak Expands Commodities Strategy
An African-focused commodities manager is teeing up a vehicle that would seek to exploit arbitrage opportunities between agricultural and non-agricultural products globally. Barak Fund Management of Port Louis, Mauritius, has reached a deal with seed investors for $4 million of up-front capital. The vehicle, Barak Commodity Derivatives Fund, is set to begin trading next month. The strategy would entail trading derivatives tied to a wide variety of "soft" and "hard" commodities whose prices tend to be correlated.