Bivashen Naidoo

OMIGSA invests globally across asset classes, with a strong focus on the South African market. Their portfolios give clients exposure to listed equity and debt markets in South Africa, the rest of Africa, emerging markets and global developed markets. They have specialist expertise in sectors such as mining and resources, financials, industrials and real estate, as well as in small-caps. The firm's research for all boutiques is centralized and organized in teams specializing in equity, debt, macro economy, quantitative analysis, risk management and equity trading. They conduct a program of company visits and share research globally within the Old Mutual group.

Customised Solutions has a mathematical and systematic approach to indexing or passive investing. The firm narrows down the overall investable universe by excluding the most illiquid stocks in the benchmark index and stocks that comprise a very small percentage of the index through the use of different analytical tools. They aim to find an optimal blend of constituents from the stocks in the benchmark universe to minimize the tracking error in building portfolios. Their portfolio manager will affect changes to the portfolio based on any index changes, deviations from targeted tracking error and corporate events such as unbundling, delisting or suspension.