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An article by Edo Bräsecke in the Business Day.

An article by Patrick Cairns.

An article by Patrick Cairns.

Until the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, few people had considered the impact investor psychology has on markets.

The dominant idea had been that investors always make rational decisions. Even when they got things horribly wrong, it was generally accepted that they had logical reasons for doing so.

One thing we are clear about at Methodical is that we are doing something different. Our equity fund works and looks like nothing else on the market. This is not out of simple belligerence. We are not natural contrarians who want to be divergent just for the sake of it.

When the global financial crisis hit in 2008, I was working for a boutique fund of hedge funds manager in London. Over the previous ten years, I had been managing money in the UK, gaining experience in different global markets. I had travelled a lot, too – meeting some of the world’s finest hedge fund managers and seeing how they generate returns for their clients.

Edo Brasecke is a Methodical Investment Management co-founder and managing director. Earlier in my career, I worked as part of a large equity strategy team. We provided research to investment managers, focusing on analysing market dynamics and macro strategy.

Over the next few months, as Methodical Investment Management approaches its eighth year and R9bn in assets under management, we will reflect on our journey. Five years is a magical number in asset management. That’s the point when you can say you have a track record. Portfolio managers look forward to this moment like a graduation. A fund with 59 months of performance data is ‘untested’. After 60 months, those numbers are finally worth something.

Citywire response to questions about Stanlib moving to systematic only.