Ryan Friedman

I head up the multi-manager business within Investec Wealth & Investment in SA focusing on running US dollar denominated global funds for Investec’s high net worth clients. We also manage a number of multi-manager funds in South Africa. My team and I perform detailed due diligence on fund managers around the world with the aim of building globally diversified fund of funds portfolios populated with some of the world’s finest investment managers. Our investment process focuses on qualitative, quantitative and operational due diligence in order to quantify and manage risk and generate superior performance for investors. We place great emphasis on qualitative aspects of the due diligence process as risk cannot be adequately quantified by statistics alone. This has helped us to avoid many mistakes over the years by keeping things simple and always applying a healthy degree of common sense to everything we do. We run four risk profiled funds denominated in US dollars and domiciled in a tax efficient structure in Guernsey. Our longest running fund has a 12 year track record of consistent out performance of our global peer group. We manage in excess of US$1.5bn across these funds with an additional R1.7bn in SA domiciled funds.