Investment Seminar 8 June 2016: Recent Episodes
Actuarial Society of South Africa
Annabel Bishop is Investec Bank Limited’s Chief Economist in South Africa. She joined Investec in 2001 and has worked in the macroeconomic and econometrics field for 18 years. Annabel is the holder of the Sake/Beeld Economist of the Year title for 2010 and has won numerous monthly Reuters Econometer awards for correctly forecasting a range of economic variables.
Nerina is an independent ETF strategist and advisor, offering consulting services to the investment industry, financial advisors and private individuals with a focus on exchange traded products and benchmark indices. She is a director of the etfSA Portfolio Management Company where she oversees the management of specialist investment portfolios of Exchange Traded Products for a broad range of clients – from large institutions, retirement funds and trusts, to private individuals. She also serves as Vice President on the board of the CFA Institute South Africa Society.
Facilitator: Fagmeedah Petersen Lurie; Panellists: Mxolisi Mbekwa (Selekane Asset Consultants) ; Fawzia Sulaiman (Macquarie Equities South Africa) ; Mabatha Seeiso (Independent Trustee)
Facilitator: Byron Green, Panellists: Andrew Crawford (Capricorn Capital), Shane Watkins (Allweather Capital) ; Grant Haarhoff (Principal Officer of the South African Reserve Bank Retirement Fund); Bruce Simpson (Sanlam Investments)
Antony is Director of Pensions at Santander UK where he is responsible for the assets and liabilities of the bank's £10bn pension arrangements, as well as other aspects of the bank's balance sheet and enterprise wide risk management. With a degree in Banking & Finance, Antony trained as an actuary with Hewitt, Bacon & Woodrow and Mercer. Antony was the actuarial profession's Principal Examiner in investments and co-authored the profession's official responses to public consultations on the Myners and Sandler reviews of investment governance.
Dana Day is the director of Industry Relations for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa regions at the CFA Institute. She joined the organisation from Aviva Investors. In her role, Ms Day lead the establishment of business partnerships for the CFA Institute with financial and professional services firms such as asset managers, insurers, banks, accountancy and law firms, data providers and business outsourcing organisations.
Jeremy Maggs is a South African journalist, radio host and television presenter. He is best known for hosting the game show “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” and for anchoring the primetime news show on DStv's eNews Channel.