South Africa

Nomkhita Mona is the Chief Executive Officer of the Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber. Previously, she was Group CEO of South African Forestry Company Ltd (SAFCOL). Other top positions she has held include CEO of The Uitenhage Despatch Development Initiative (UDDI), Associate Consultant for an International Consulting company, Chief Executive Officer of Inkezo Land Company… read more »

Johann Kriegler is a life-long human-rights lawyer who headed South Africa’s transitional elections in 1994 and was subsequently appointed a founding justice of the newly established Constitutional Court. Since completing his term in 2002 he has been engaged in some 40 countries on five continents — from East Timor through Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Maldives and… read more »

Ms Wilma Mokupo is currently the Head of the Pensions (Prudential Supervision) Department at the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) responsible for the supervision of the financial soundness and prudential supervision of retirement funds registered under the Pension Funds Act and the investment spreading requirements (regulation 28). She is responsible for the preparation of the… read more »

Thembi moved back to Botswana and joined RisCura in 2016. She brings a wealth of expertise in managed funds research across a multitude of asset classes. These include global equities, Australian equities, fixed income, property securities, global emerging markets, New Zealand Equities and alternative investments. In her role as senior consultant at RisCura, Thembi oversees… read more »

Steve is the GM-AMC International and Editor /Head of content for the Pan -African Pensions and Retirement resource portal and magazine-PensionsAfrica® and he’s a seasoned media and communications professional with over 15 years’ experience within Sub-Saharan Africa with focus on the coverage of all key and topical issues impacting pensions and retirement industry such as… read more »

Renaye Manley has held staff positions in national unions for over twenty years.  She currently serves as Deputy Director of the Service Employees International strategic initiatives dept.  In this position, she works with pension trustees, investment professionals and union leaders around the engagement of multi-billion dollar union and public pensions. She previously served on the… read more »

Petri Greeff is a South African specialist in the ALM field and also the co-creator behind RisCura’s ALM model. He works closely with the team to ensure that it is regularly updated in line with industry trends. Petri draws from a treasure chest of knowledge and experience built up over 17 years in the investment… read more »

Olano Makhubela has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of KwaZulu-Natal; Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of the Witwatersrand; BCom Honours (Economics) (distinction) from University of South Africa; and a Masters in Science in Development Economics from the University of London. Work Experience Olano Makhubela has been with the National Treasury since… read more »

Nazmeera is Co-Head of SA & Africa Fixed Income as well as economist and strategist for the Emerging Market Fixed Income team at Investec Asset Management. Nazmeera runs the top-down process for both the SA Rates and Credit teams and is responsible for the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund. Nazmeera has been published extensively in the… read more »

Nerina Visser CFA 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… read more »

Muvhango Lukhaimane commenced her responsibilities as Deputy Pension Funds Adjudicator on 1 June 2012 and was appointed Pension Funds Adjudicator on 1 July 2013. She acquired first-hand experience and expertise in pension fund matters as research consultant and legal advisor at Sanlam Employee Benefits and Liberty Personal Benefits. She was also Principal Officer of the… read more »

Limpho Monyamane is a chartered accountant by profession, having obtained her BCom degree and subsequent honours in Accounting Sciences at the University of Pretoria. Her career started at the auditing firm KPMG where she did her articles before qualifying as a CA, thereafter moving to the Global Africa Practice where she was involved in the… read more »

Justice Malala is a political commentator and newspaper columnist. Malala writes regular weekly columns for The Times newspaper and the Financial Mail magazine. He is the resident political analyst for e.tv and eNews Channel Africa. He also presents a weekly political talk show (The Justice Factor on eNCA and eTV, Mondays at 8.30pm). Between 2007… read more »

Hywel George is responsible for the investment performance delivered by Old Mutual’s listed asset management cluster. Hywel George’s experience spans 25 years working in leading global institutional and private client asset management companies in Europe and the Middle East.

Jannie Leach joined Nedgroup Investments in 2008 as an Investment Analyst in the Best of Breed Team. During his time as an analyst Jannie Leach started developing the Core Range of low cost multi-asset portfolios which were launched in September 2009. He currently drives the strategic development of the Core Range and is responsible for… read more »