HFA Icon

This African fund likes bank stocks right now

Michelle headshot
Michelle deBoer-Jones
Published on
Updated on
Sign up for our E-mail List and Get FREE Access to Exclusive Investment E-books and More!

The Laurium Limpopo Fund gained 10.4% in the second quarter but is down 18.3% for the first half of the year after a turbulent first quarter. Those numbers are roughly in line with the market as African markets rebounded in the second quarter similarly to how emerging and frontier markets rebounded.

Q2 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more

Dow Stocks

COVID-19 effects in Africa

In their second-quarter letter to investors, which was reviewed by ValueWalk, the Laurium Capital team said the divergence that's playing out in developed economies between the roaring stock market and the average "man on the street" isn't playing out in Africa. African markets haven't been racing along...

Login required to continue reading.

Setup a free account to get access to this article (no credit card required).

View Full Article
Already a member? Log in here
Michelle headshot

Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.