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Tracking a formidable market operator

little is generally known about the Sasfin BCI Global Equity Feeder Fund, but one of its greatest attributes is that its underlying offshore fund is managed by Bruce Ackerman, one of the global asset management industry’s most experienced and successful operatives.

Son of Ackermans stores patriarch Gus Ackerman and brother of Pick n Pay founder Raymond, Bruce was born in Cape Town in 1944, graduated with economics and MBA degrees at UCT in the late-1960s, and then headed to the UK where he managed some of the country’s biggest

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