Speakers
Bruce Whitfield
GIB Investment Summit MC.
Luck is not a single, random event. It can and must be cultivated and exploited. This keynote is drawn from the most critical lessons distilled through analysing successful global businesses for more than two decades.
Paul Nixon
Head of Behavioural Finance at Momentum Investments
I use finance and economic theory together with psychology and technology (machine learning) to scale the behavioural science proposition and create both investor and business value.
Sanisha Packirisamy
Economist at Momentum Investments
Sanisha joined RMB Asset Management in February 2008 as an economic analyst. Appointed as economist at Momentum Asset Management 2012, she was responsible for developing and managing a best practice framework for integrating key macroeconomic inputs and trend shifts that best inform an optimal asset allocation process in partnership with the strategist, portfolio managers, portfolio construction, fixed income and equity research teams.
Tim Acker
Portfolio Manager at Allan Gray
Tim joined Allan Gray as an equity analyst in 2013 after working in academia and completing his articles. He was appointed as a portfolio manager in 2020 and manages a portion of the equity, balanced and stable portfolios. Tim holds a Master of Accounting degree, specialising in Taxation, from Stellenbosch University. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a CFA® charterholder.
Cor Booysen
Cor Booysen moved to the fund management industry in 2008, where he was head of resources and a fund manager at RMB Asset Management, and a subsequently as sell-side analyst for HSBC, covering the platinum and diversified mining sector. In 2012 Cor joined Fairtree to co-manage the Fairtree Equity Prescient Fund. Cor is also Head of Research.
Murray Winckler
Co-Founder and Portfolio Manager
Murray is the co-founder of Laurium Capital, an independently owned asset manager founded in 2008. Laurium has grown to R50bn in assets under management and provides a suite of long-only and hedge fund strategies which invest in South Africa as well the as the rest of the African continent, and more recently launched a Global Active Equity Fund
Simon Fillmore
Chief Investment Officer at Independent Securities since April 2022. Prior to that he was the CEO of Independent Securities for 14 years where he focused on growing the private client book, with an emphasis on offshore investments. Worked as a sell-side analyst for six years specialising in free-cash-flow equity valuations on JSE listed companies. Spent a few years with BlackRock in London as a global investment analyst.
Hylton Cameron
Director, Tax | BDO Johannesburg
He specialises in domestic corporate and international tax. This includes inbound and outbound acquisitions, Double Taxation Agreement interpretation, mergers and acquisitions, intra-group re-organisations and implementation, and general consulting.
Sector experience
Jeff Miller
CEO & Co-Founder | Twelve B Green Energy Fund & Grovest
Jeff is a pioneer of Section 12J Venture Capital Companies in South Africa and has held positions on various sub-committees of SAVCA and Simodisa, both of which focus their efforts on the South African Venture Capital industry
