Industry and other events
We participate in various events hosted by the financial services and investments industry. At these events, we showcase our investment capabilities, investment views and thought-leadership content.
Meet the Managers
June 2023
The 2023 Meet the Managers event took place on 8 June at the Sandton Convention Centre and 13 June at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. Our portfolio manager, Imtiaz Mohammed Alli demystified smart beta and guided us through the main benefits of the investment approach. View our smart beta offering .
Alternative Investments Forum
The Alternative Investments Forum was held on 24 May 2023 at The Polo Room in Sandton. Motlatsi Mutlanyane, head of alternative investments at Momentum Investments, discussed financing purpose-built student accommodation. Mike Adsetts, deputy chief investment officer at Momentum Investments participated in a panel discussion on ‘Keeping the powder dry in private equity transactions?’.
EBnet 3-D Virtual Conference 2022
What drives our decisions? Paul Nixon, head of behavioural finance at Momentum Investments, spoke to Chris Brits from EBnet about using data gathering and analysis to develop insights into investment behaviour, thus enabling better decision-making in the investment process, as part of the 2022 3-D EBnet Virtual Conference and Expo.
Breakfast session with Momentum Namibia
At our breakfast session with Momentum Namibia on 25 August 2022 to institutional clients, the theme was ‘the road to successful investment outcomes in uncertain times’. Evangelina Naileng, managing director at Momentum Investments Namibia, gave a Namibian market overview, Sanisha Packirisamy, economist at Momentum Investments in South Africa, discussed how 'war slows the pandemic recovery'. Jako De Jager, head of retail portfolio solutions and Taruvona Mashamhanda, portfolio manager both at Momentum Investments in South Africa, discussed the Namibian portfolios and our outcome-based investing philosophy. Vaughan Petersen, senior client fund manager at Momentum Investment Namibia ended the session by unpacking guaranteed investment solutions.
Event presentations
Meet the managers
8 - 10 Mar 2022
Jako de Jager and Eugene Botha discussing Thematic investing:
Disrupting tradition.
The 2022 Batseta Winter Conference
The in-person event took place on 6 and 7 June 2022 at Emperors Palace in Johannesburg. Kamini Naidoo, portfolio manager in our alternative investments team, spoke about the broad shift towards sustainable investing, the spectrum of impact investing and that it is possible to generate returns while making a difference. She also discussed the benefits of sustainable investing to an overall portfolio and pension funds.
Batseta webinar
8 Feb 2022
Theo Terblanche, executive head of Investment Management at Momentum Investments, discussed why staying invested is important and why trustees should care.
Batseta: The Solution Room
Meet the Managers event
Investment Forum
In Sandton and Cape Town, Jeanette Marais participated in a panel discussion called ‘How megatrends are shaping the future of the investment management industry. Brandon Zietsman from PortfolioMetrix was the moderator and the other panelists were:
- Nersan Naidoo from Sanlam Investments
- Derrick Msibi from STANLIB
- David Hufton from Sygnia Group Limited
In Sandton, Ian Scott also participated in a panel discussion called ‘Easing of money supply, rising interest rates and inflation’. Leigh Kohler from INN8 Invest was the moderator and the other panelists were:
- Albert Botha from Ashburton Investments
- Ahmed Talhaoui from BlackRock
- Henk Viljoen from STANLIB
In Sandton, Wayne Dennehy presented in a breakaway session on ‘Perception of Inequity’.
IRFA Imbizo webinar
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