Graeme Rate

Head of Hedge

Pier Place, Heerengracht Street, Foreshore, Cape Town, South Africa

Graeme is Head of Hedge at SANNE. He is responsible for delivering the division’s business plan whilst focusing on ensuring the highest quality of services are provided to clients.

He has over 17 years’ experience in the hedge fund market and has significant strategic, operational and market expertise having worked for a large fund manager, a stockbroker and an administration business servicing the hedge fund industry.

Graeme will be responsible for developing Sanne's hedge fund strategy going forward. He is a qualified South African Stockbroker and a Chartered Accountant CA (SA).

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Graeme Rate's specialisms

Hedge Fund administration

Our wide scope of services is delivered by a skilled and dedicated team to ensure that client objectives are supported and synergies are established at every level.

We administer the following types of funds - Collective investment schemes, Equity Long/ Short and Market Neutral funds, Commodity funds, Fixed income funds, Multi-strategy funds, Funds of hedge funds, Mezzanine debt funds as well as other combinations of multi-currency and multi-jurisdictional structures.

A key service provided to clients is the calculation of an independently valued portfolio Net Asset Value (NAV). This is produced at a frequency required by the fund, in line with its liquidity requirements and ranging from daily to quarterly reporting.

We offer clients a full spectrum of accounting services, from the maintenance of fund accounting records and the processing of expenses, management and performance fees and corporate actions, through to the best practice preparation of annual financial statements and coordination of the annual audit. Investor servicing is provided in an integrated solution with an ability to maintain a full share register or partner capital accounts. Fund Accounting is responsible for the maintenance of fund accounting records in accordance with local laws, regulations and accounting standards.

Other services encompassed in the offering include fund of fund custody, cash management and middle office services.
Management Company

SANNE's Management Company is a registered Collective Investment Scheme Management Company regulated by the Financial Services Board. This allows it to provide investment managers with an outsourced portfolio hosting platform for hedge fund and unit trust portfolios. The investment manager is able to focus on their core activity of investment decision making.

Core deliverables of the Management Company are to ensure regulatory and mandate compliance of the portfolios and to perform an independent risk monitoring function. The Management Company maintains a strong internal control structure to minimise risk of operational and financial failure.

Our approval enables us to offer investment managers with a number of portfolio choices:

> Qualified Investor Hedge Funds

> Retail Investor Hedge Funds

> Unit Trusts

For more information on our Management Company, please click here.

Colleagues

Andrew Frankish

Operations Director - South Africa

Kosie Feyt

Director, Hedge

Martin Schnaier

Chief Commercial Officer

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