Ashburton Investments has been deliberately positioned to erase the boundaries that exist between traditional long-only funds and alternative and passive products, to harness the asset creation capabilities of the FirstRand Group and deliver innovative solutions to our clients.
We are focused on providing investors with access to more sources of return, broader investment capabilities and greater risk management.
Our assets under management are approximately $11bn, as at December 2014, and we have extensive geographical reach, with offices in South Africa, the UK, Channel Islands and United Arab Emirates.
What are the opportunities in Africa, in the key countries where you sell funds?
Given our strong roots in Africa, this is a core geographic focus for us.
Our approach is built around two main pillars – distribution and products.
Taking the latter first, as Africa specialists and building on our group capabilities, we have enabled a niche range of specialist Africa products, including listed equity, real estate, private equity and credit funds to sell to global and African investors.
This has also allowed us to shift our sales efforts to encompass international institutional investors and not just the retail market.
On the distribution and retail front, we not only have an extensive intermediary network in South Africa for our multi-asset and emerging market product ranges but we are also aligned with the distribution capabilities of our parent, FirstRand, and particularly those of the group’s retail bank, FNB, as it expands what is already an extensive footprint in South Africa and neighbouring territories into sub-Saharan Africa.
We also have growing international institutional appetite for our listed equity, real estate and credit funds.
