Independent Non-Executive Chairman

Herman Steyn has been involved in the investment management industry since 1985, having held senior management positions in several established asset management companies. He began his investment management career when awarded a bursary from Old Mutual.  After a period at Old Mutual, he co-founded an asset management company and in 1993, he started the first index tracker fund, the Composite Unit Trust, in South Africa. He later sold the unit trust management company to Investec, joining Investec Asset Management in 1995 where he established Investec Asset Management’s international fund management capability, setting up their fund structures in Dublin. In 1998 Herman and Guy Toms founded Prescient Investment Management, which specialises in quantitative investment management.