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brave new world
The best dolphin watching I have done was from a dinghy which was launched off West brook beach in Kwa Zulu Natal. So when I got an invitation to go to Westbrooke I got my best swimming costume and sourced my best binoculars. Sadly there were no dolphins to be seen at the head office of Westbrooke
1 December 2016
westbrooke thrives on activist book
Fund returns a net annualised 17.5% over three years, investing in concentrated portfolio of small- and mid-cap names
The Westbrooke Capital Management Special Opportunities Fund has been making steady progress with net returns of 6.7% this year to the end of
joint venture incentive: profitable changes
An energy fund, an equipment rental business and a credit verification start-up — these are some of the businesses that are benefiting from investments through a venture capital tax incentive.
1 September 2016
acquisitive wiese eyes JSE tech firm
IT’S BEEN a busy week for retail tycoon Christo Wiese — first he took a play for diamond mining venture Trans Hex Group and then took a tilt, through the recently formed Stellar Capital Partners (SCP), at a security technology niche.
12 August 2016
amecor: the hunter becomes the hunted
In just a few days, small security technology group Amalgamated Electronic Corp (Amecor) has gone from hunter to hunted.
Last week Amecor, at the release of strong year-to-end-March results, hinted that its strong cash-flow generation would not only underpin dividends and
