Anthea Gardner (MBA)
Anthea started her finance career at HSBC, Johannesburg as an equity sales trader whilst completing her MBA at Wits Business School, with her research thesis in Option Pricing Models and their relevance in the South African market. In 2004 she joined Rand Merchant bank on the derivatives sales trading desk where she was instrumental in offering Single Stock Futures to clients and starting the institutional CFD product. Her move to Morgan Stanley, London, in 2007, was to cover the European and US Equity Derivatives client base focusing on emerging markets in Eastern Europe and Africa. After Morgan Stanley, she joined the investment team at the African Development Bank in Tunisia, as a Fixed Income portfolio manager. Her entrepreneurial spirit took her to the south of France for a year and a half to start a property business before returning to South Africa. She started Cartesian Capital in January 2014.
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