Damien Hedderwick

Vantage Capital invests in middle to large market companies located in Africa with an EBITDA of ZAR 20 million and enterprise value of ZAR 100 million. The firm focuses across a broad range of sectors and industries. It provides financing for growth, MBO, and buyout transactions with an investment size of ZAR 100 – 500 million.

Provides private wealth management, advisory, investment and corporate banking & asset management services

UBS Asset Management Credit Investments Group is an active manager which employs a holistic, solutions-based approach to provide innovative investment strategies within a rigorous risk management framework and deliver intellectual capital through institutional and retail investment research. The firm employs a bottom-up approach towards portfolio construction that begins with an initial review of primary and secondary market opportunities.

Blackfriars is an active manager which has specific expertise in emerging market equity and debt as well as in global fixed-income and currencies. Their portfolios are primarily long-only, however they also manage global long/short emerging market equity portfolios. The firm combines fundamental-driven, bottom-up stock selection with disciplined quantitative analysis in an investment process involving a three-stage filtering process. First an internally developed quantitative stock screener based on three inputs (a multi-factor model, a CFROI model and a technical model) identifies pricing anomalies, then a team of in-house analysts establishes their fundamental view of the value of these companies, after which they construct a portfolio with stock-specific risk.

Functions as a College/University

Functions as a College/University

Provides financial advisory, investment and funds management services