Investec for Institutions

Lourens Janse van Rensburg

Head: Corporate and Institutional Banking

I head up a team that focuses on specialised lending, structured products and treasury activities for corporates and institutions. We strive to build trusted, long-term relationships and provide holistic, forward-looking views in order to identify ways to help clients achieve their business imperatives.

Dhiren Mansingh

Head: Treasury, sales and structuring

I head up a team that consists of both the sales and trading functions for interest rates, foreign exchange, commodities, and money markets. The team is primarily involved in the management of our client's treasury requirements from a short-term operational aspect as well as that of a longer-term, strategic nature.

From an operational component (the sales role) we look at all physical foreign exchange and money market requirements and with the structuring role, cover requirements around all derivative activities, especially those of foreign exchange, commodity, and interest rate.

The client base spans corporates, commercial clients, parastatals, government bodies, high net-worth individuals, institutions, and property companies. The team aims to mitigate our client’s risks to these underlying asset classes.

The interest rate and foreign exchange trading desks also form part of Treasury Sales and Structuring. Through these desks, we market make in a variety of different currency pairs, bonds, and fixed income derivative instruments.

Kenric Owen

Head: Financial products

Financial Products consists of a number of specialist teams which service institutional and corporate clients (asset managers, insurers, stockbrokers, financial intermediaries and corporates). We pride ourselves in having the technical expertise to find solutions for a sophisticated and complex client segment. Our product set includes loan and preference share funding, debt capital markets, structured products, fixed income and credit distribution as well as balance sheet structuring and optimisation.

Will Ridge

Head: Equities

I head up the Institutional Equities division that provides a high quality research, execution and sales product to our institutional client base. I joined Investec from Fairtree Capital (one of the largest hedge fund groups in SA) where I ran a market-neutral hedge fund for a short period of time. Prior to this I ran the top-rated SA equities sales desk at Merrill Lynch SA. I have worked in financial markets for over a decade across cash equities and derivatives in both a trading and an equity sales capacity.