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Kardinia Capital

Kardinia Capital (Kardinia) is a boutique absolute return investment manager offering a long/short Australian equities capability to both institutional and retail investors.

It was established by Mark Burgess and Kristiaan Rehder, in partnership with Bennelong Funds Management, in August 2011.

Prior to joining Bennelong's suite of boutiques, Mark and Kristiaan worked together at Herschel, where Mark managed the Absolute Return Fund since inception in May 2006.

Mark and Kristiaan jointly manage the Bennelong Kardinia Absolute Return Fund, a long/short Australian equity product with the long-term objective of achieving double digit annual rates of return without compromising on capital protection. Core to the strategy is long-term fundamental stock selection to create a high conviction portfolio of between 20-50 stocks.