Why?
We believe investors need to be better informed to achieve the best risk-adjusted returns.
How?
We profile the best fund managers and distribute content that also satisfies regulatory requirements.
What?
We provide a layer of due diligence for investors and ensure financial professionals remain Fit and Proper.
Our content is FREE, supporting economic transformation and financial literacy.
Benefits to our community:
How do we earn our fees?
Our library of investment research is freely accessible, thanks to the supporting asset managers. Financial professionals requiring CPD points pay a nominal fee for our digital infrastructure which saves money and time, simplifying regulation, delivering content to your phone, tablet or PC.
Register for our complimentary Monthly Dispatch. Financial professionals earn CPD points.
BLACK ONYX is an authorised FSP (47701)
and accredited CPD provider.
BLACK ONYX is an authorised FSP (47701) and accredited CPD provider.
Director (KI): Andrew Ludwig
Financial Service Provider: 47701
Having worked with alternative investments since 2008, BLACK ONYX was established in 2015 as an alternatives consultancy and has since evolved to become an advisory, distribution specialist and RegTech provider.
As a distribution consultancy and alternative investment advisory, we partner with award-winning asset managers (traditional, boutique & alternative), and generate high-quality video content for financial professionals (independent & institutional) and individual investors who wish to be better informed and remain digitally connected to the investable universe.
Our digital solution assists the asset managers’ distribution function and financial professionals’ regulatory requirements, while our content is complimentary, supporting economic transformation and financial literacy. Click here to learn more.
BLACK ONYX is a registered Financial Services Provider (47701) recognised by the FSCA (formerly the FSB), the FIA (Financial Intermediaries Association of South Africa) and the FPI (Financial Planning Institute of South Africa). I am a member of IASSA (The Investments Analysts Society of South Africa).
Patrick Cooper
Business Development at Coupland Cardiff Asset Management.
I have known Andrew for many years as an investment professional and investor in hedge funds and alpha strategies. He has a wide knowledge of investment markets and investment funds in general. He is a great communicator and very professional in his approach.
Nicholas Jeffrey
MD at Geneva Management Group (RSA).
Andrew has been involved with our firm for many years. He has a wealth of knowledge in the alternatives space both locally and abroad.
Warren Buys
Director at Florin Capital Management.
Andrew’s enthusiasm for alternatives is matched by his professionalism and astute level of service.
As a South African investor, you have access to FSB regulated boutique asset managers, which also include hedge funds and cost effective CIS structures. These award winning portfolios rely on carefully selected boutique asset managers who contribute to a range of diversified investment strategies (Long-Short Equity, Long Only Equity, Fixed Income and Multi Asset).
Highly experienced teams manage an optimal blend of uncorrelated strategies, maximising risk-adjusted returns and reducing poor individual investment decisions. In turn they are each overseen by a regulated institution whose focus is low-volatility and efficient fund structures. This doesn’t necessarily suggest layers of unwarranted fees, as it does layers of insurance.
Allocations to strategies constantly change as macro-economic sentiment ebbs and flows. These internal redemptions become very costly over time and our preferred structures address this issue, reducing your overall portfolio costs. BLACK ONYX represents investment managers who will reduce your investment costs.
As of the 1st of June 2018, many South African financial professionals will be required to earn CPD points to remain “Fit and Proper” (FAIS Act). This affects Key Individuals, Representatives and those under supervision. Click here for more detail. Various professional bodies that support CAs, CFAs, stockbrokers, actuaries, tax consultants, pension and retirements funds to name a few, are also subjected to their own CPD requirements.
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BLACK ONYX is an authorised FSP (47701)
and accredited CPD provider.
BLACK ONYX collaborates with 30+ carefully selected local boutique asset managers, who have undergone multiple layers of independent and institutional due diligence. These managers are selected from a universe of over 1700 local unit trusts (including 300 regulated hedge funds), based on their exemplary performance and approach to risk. In turn, these diverse and specialised strategies are assembled into various cost effective CIS structures.
Regulated boutique managers and CIS structures afford you accessibility to high-end, carefully researched, alternative strategies that include:
Individually or collectively these strategies track absolute returns with zero to low correlation to the JSE and their General Equity and Balanced Fund peers, seeking significantly better overall results with substantially less risk over time.
Some of our preferred fund managers:
While continually reviewing and interviewing fund managers and service providers, BLACK ONYX has established a series of short interviews bringing you face-to-face with some of the industry stakeholders. There’s a strong likelihood many of these boutique fund managers influenced some of your current investments, at some stage in their career.
Cy Jacobs – 36ONE Asset Management
Erik Nel – Terebinth Capital
Jacques Conradie – Peregrine Capital
BLACK ONYX is committed to social upliftment, supporting the Silibona Educational Fund, a tertiary education initiative providing financial assistance & mentoring support at university level, to disadvantaged students, focused on mainly female students.
