What we offer
The equity market presents challenges that require creative and decisive solutions. Receive in-depth market insights to support your specific investment requirements, along with access to the market through a best-in-class execution platform. Our goal is to develop a relationship built on trust, consistency, superior execution, and intelligent market information.
Acquire exposure to underlying share movements in both developed and emerging markets by partnering with a team that has experience in originating and structuring products across a range of multiple instruments.
Secure a high quality and tailored solution when you partner with an electronic execution services team that offers a broad range of tools to help you achieve your investment goals.
Whether you’re interested in protecting your value, creating exposure to particular equity or designing a customised basket of stocks, we’re focused on providing customised structures to best suit your unique requirements.
Maximise your returns and minimise risk by choosing a fully integrated and risk-smart Prime Services solution.
Enhance your equity investment strategy with analysis and insights from Investec’s equities research team. We combine macro and sector research to give you valuable insights that allow you to develop strategies across markets.
Our team provides services to lenders with low risk yield enhancement, while enabling borrowers, such as stockbrokers or hedge fund managers, to cover failed or short sale trades, hedge risks and conduct arbitrage in the market.
Investec provides a best-of-breed, high-touch cash equity execution offering across South Africa and Frontier markets, supported by five dedicated sales traders and three traders.
Our team advise and execute trades for institutional investors, corporate clients and large financial entities across jurisdictions and sectors.
The team
Will Ridge
Head of Equities and co-head of the Institutional Segment
I am the Head of Equities at Investec. The equities cluster provides execution, advisory, financing and risk management solutions to the institutional and corporate client base. I have 21 years’ experience in financial markets across equity sales, trading and as a hedge fund manager. I joined Investec in 2016 as Head of Institutional Equities. Prior to joining Investec, I was a director and Head of South African Equity Sales at Merrill Lynch where I ran the number one ranked sales team. I also briefly ran a market neutral hedge fund at Fairtree Capital.
Philip Thuthuka Dube
Head: Equity finance
Phillip is the Head of Equity Finance at Investec, with more than 19 years of industry experience. He leads a team responsible for issuing and distributing retail and wholesale equity products across a broad spectrum of client types. The team focuses on Delta-One derivatives traded both on-exchange and Over-the-Counter (OTC).
The Equity Finance team plays an important role in enabling clients, particularly hedge funds and international banks, to synthetically gain or hedge exposure to both local and offshore markets. Their work supports clients who require efficient and structured access to equity performance while navigating financial or liquidity constraints across jurisdictions.
Nkateko Mathonsi
Head of research; Equity analyst: SA mining
I am an equity analyst covering the SA mining stocks and the Head of Research at Investec Securities.
I joined Investec in 2016 as an Equity Research Analyst. Prior to joining Investec, I worked as a chemical engineer at Impala Platinum for eight years – the last six of which I managed a nickel plant operation.
Andries Potgieter
Head: Electronic Trading
I am the Head of Electronic Trading at Investec and widely recognised as a pioneer of electronic trading in South Africa. With over 27 years of experience in financial services, I have a strong focus on leveraging data, technology and market expertise throughout the trading lifecycle. I lead Investec’s electronic trading business, driving innovation in execution technology, smart order routing and algorithmic trading to deliver best execution and access to liquidity for a global client base.
I spent seven years in London, holding roles across equity trading, analysis, technology and project management. In 2006, I returned to South Africa to join Investec, where I have established and grew the firm’s electronic execution services business. I hold a bachelor’s degree with majors in economics and informatics.
James Lee
Head: Prime Services
I head up Prime Services, which provides a bundle of high-quality investment activities for institutional hedge funds and similar clients, allowing them to focus on investment goals and strategy. These services include cash management, securities lending, trade execution, local and global custody, settlement, clearing and regulatory reporting solutions.
I have worked at Investec since 2010 in multiple capacities within the equities cluster, ranging from technology, operations and specialist projects.
Prior to Joining Investec, I spent four years in the telecommunications industry in both technical and business capacities globally.
Rithen Ramlal
Head: Trading for Global Markets
I am Head of Trading for Global Markets at Investec. I joined Investec in 2013 as an Equity Derivatives Trader and have since played an integral role in the growth of the business. With more than 23 years of experience spanning investment banking, trading, sales, and portfolio management across the corporate and private sectors, I bring deep market expertise to my role.
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