About Momentum Global Investment Management

Ferdi joined Momentum Global Investment Management in August 2010 from Switzerland, where he was Chief Executive of a new start up insurance venture. Prior to 3 years in Switzerland, he held a number of senior executive positions in both Momentum / MMI Group, one of the top three life insurance and investment groups in South Africa, and the FirstRand Group, both top 30 listed companies on the Johannesburg stock exchange. During his career of almost 20 years with the Group, his responsibilities included heading up Momentum’s individual life operation, the private pension fund administration business, as well as FirstRand’s consumer banking division. Ferdi has more than 25 years experience in the life and pensions industry.

Ferdi studied mathematics, statistics, and actuarial sciences and holds a B.Sc and B.Sc Honours from the University of Port Elizabeth. Furthermore he has completed an Advanced Management Program at Insead Business School in France, and has a postgraduate diploma in management from the Henley Business School.

Glyn was one of the founders of Momentum’s asset management, advisory and investment services business in the UK in 1998. He is now head of the multi-asset team which includes the advisory arm of the UK business, Momentum Global Investment Management Limited. Glyn has over thirty five years of investment experience, most of which has been in the City of London. Prior to working with the FirstRand Group, Glyn was head of the International Division at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, where he was responsible for international investments for non-UK institutions. He also spent three years working in the investment industry in Australia.

Nigel joined Momentum in 1991 as the Head of Tax where after he became the Group Financial Manager. In 1995 Nigel founded the Momentum Corporate Advisory Services business unit which specialised in onshore & offshore structured investment products for the Investment Banking and High Net worth retail markets. In 2009 Nigel was appointed as the Momentum Group CFO and formed the group’s Balance Sheet Management Division responsible for capital management, treasury, hedging and optimisation of the Shareholder’s proprietary Balance Sheet. Post the merger of the Momentum and Metropolitan Groups, Nigel was appointed as the CEO of MMI Holdings Balance Sheet Management, which he handed over in May 2014 when he moved to London to play a strategic role in growing MMI’s global business outside of South Africa. He served on both the Momentum and MMI Executive Committee from 2000 to 2014.

Frans Truter was an associate Director at Deloitte and also worked at the SA Reserve Bank. He joined Momentum in 1988 as Chief Financial Officer and was involved with the transactions to acquire Lifegro (1988), Sage (2004) and Sovereign Health (2005). He has also served and an Executive Director of strategic investments at Momentum. Frans resigned as an Executive Director from Momentum Group in 2007. He is currently involved in certain private equity investments and serves as a Non-Executive Director on the boards of a number of companies.

Syd Muller joined Woolworths in 1977 as Company Secretary. After the merger with Truworths he was appointed Director of Finance and Planning for the Wooltru group. He was subsequently appointed Managing Director in 1986.

In 1998 he planned and lead the purchase of Country Road in Australia and was then appointed Executive Chairman of both Woolworths and Country Road./p>

In 2000 he left the Woolworths and Wooltru Groups to pursue his own interests. In 2001 he lead the purchase of the Topics retail chain out of the Wooltru Group and subsequently sold it a few years later. During this time he was a partner in a retail business that procured fashion franchises and together with his partners grew this business from one store to 150 outlets over 16 years./p>

Over this period he was invited to sit on a number of boards including Metropolitan Life and was involved in the merger arrangements between this business and Momentum and subsequent to the formation of MMI has sat on the board and a number of board committees. He is the Chairman of Holdsport Limited and the sub-Saharan board of Air Liquide, a French Gas company. He also serves on the board of Choppies Enterprise Limited in Botswana. /p>

He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and also holds a B.Com. honors degree in Financial Accounting, a Master of Business Administration and has attended the Advanced Management program at Harvard Business School./p>

Thinus has 20 years financial services experience and was the Acting Chief Executive of Metropolitan Employee Benefits at the time of the merger with Momentum in 2010. After the merger, he served as Head of Large Corporate Business in Momentum Employee Benefits with responsibility for all product functions and sales in the Large Corporate Market. In 2014, he took up the position of Chief Executive of Life Insurance for MMI, focusing on the two Retail, Corporate and International market segments. In 2016 he was appointed as Chief Executive of the Investments and Savings business, and he has overall responsibility for the UK Market Segment.