Sumesh Chetty (BSc (Hons), FIA)
Sumesh is a portfolio manager at Ninety One within our Quality team. He has responsibility for our absolute return strategies and is co-portfolio manager of the Cautious Managed Strategy and the Absolute Balanced Strategy. He joined the firm in 2007 from Metropolitan Asset Managers where he managed the Metropolitan Absolute Return Fund from 2005. Before joining Metropolitan, Sumesh spent three years as an investment actuary at Metropolitan Employee Benefits, where he was responsible for managing smooth bonus funds. Sumesh began his career at Swiss Re Life & Health, where he spent over three years as an actuarial specialist. Sumesh graduated from the University of Cape Town with a Bachelor of Business Science (Hons) degree in Actuarial Science and a postgraduate diploma in Actuarial Science. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in the United Kingdom and a Fellow of the Actuarial Society of South Africa.
Darren Jocum
Darren is a portfolio manager within the Quality team at Investec Asset Management, where he is a co-portfolio manager of the Investec Absolute Balanced Fund. His responsibilities include the fundamental research of South African-listed shares. Darren’s research coverage has been broad and he has over a decade’s worth of experience researching resource, industrial and financial companies. Prior to joining the firm, Darren worked as an equity analyst at Allan Gray. He started his career at Old Mutual. Darren graduated from the University of Cape Town in 2004 with a Bachelor of Business Science degree in Actuarial Science. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and a CFA Charterholder.
Clyde Rossouw (BSc, CFA)
Clyde is Co-Head of Quality at Ninety One. He is a portfolio manager with a focus on multi-asset absolute return and low volatility real return equity investing. His portfolio manager duties include our flagship Opportunity Strategy that he has run since 2003 and our equity oriented Global Franchise and Global Quality Equity Income strategies. Clyde joined the firm in 1999, initially as an asset allocation and sector allocation strategist. Prior to joining the firm, Clyde was awarded a study bursary by Sanlam where he worked for eight years, including five years in asset management. His experience in investments there included fixed income analysis and portfolio management. Clyde graduated from the University of Cape Town with a Bachelor of Science degree in Statistics and Actuarial Science. He was awarded the Certificates in Actuarial Techniques in 1995, and Finance and Investments in 1997 by the Institute of Actuaries in London. Clyde is a CFA Charterholder.
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