Our Investment Professionals
Coronation has one of the most stable and experienced investment teams in South Africa.
We are one of the only investment teams in the world with three former chief investment officers still actively managing money. We operate as an integrated global team headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa.
Research is integral to our investment process. We have challenged the industry model by assigning research responsibilities to all our portfolio managers. Thus our most experienced investment minds are tasked with analysing opportunities. In addition, our analysts are not assigned specific industries or geographies, but research different companies in a variety of industries and across different geographies. As a result, our investment professionals can ‘price profit and risk’ across asset classes, sectors and geographies, which results in better-constructed portfolios for clients.
Over the years we have developed and nurtured a culture of teamwork, performance and excellence, balancing the benefits of rich and diverse debate with an emphasis on individual accountability. We have a flat structure and operate as a meritocracy where anyone (irrespective of position or title) will be recognised for work well done.
South African Equity & Multi-Asset Class
- Karl Leinberger
21 years' experience - Quinton Ivan
17 years' experience - Neville Chester
25 years' experience - Sarah-Jane Alexander
18 years' experience - Nic Stein
13 years' experience - Nicholas Hops
8 years' experience
South African Absolute Return Funds
- Pallavi Ambekar
19 years' experience - Charles de Kock
35 years' experience - Neill Young
23 years' experience
Fixed Interest
- Nishan Maharaj
19 years' experience - Adrian van Pallander
19 years' experience - Seamus Vasey
18 years' experience - Steve Janson
15 years' experience - Mauro Longano
11 years' experience - Sinovuyo Ndaleni
6 years' experience
Karl Leinberger
21 years' experience
BBusSc, CA (SA), CFA
Karl is Chief Investment Officer (CIO) and manager of Coronation's Houseview strategies. He joined Coronation in 2000 as an equity analyst, was made Head of Research in 2005 and became CIO in 2008. Karl has 21 years' investment experience.
Quinton Ivan
17 years' experience
BBusSc, BCom (Hons), CA (SA), CFA
Quinton is Head of Coronation's Core Equity Strategy. He also co-manages the Presidio Hedge Fund. Quinton has 17 years of investment experience.
Neville Chester
25 years' experience
BCom, CA (SA), CFA
Neville is a senior member of the investment team with 25 years' investment experience. He manages Coronation's Aggressive Equity Strategy and is co-manager of the Coronation Top 20 and Market Plus unit trust funds.
Sarah-Jane Alexander
18 years' experience
BBusSc, CFA
Sarah-Jane manages assets within the Coronation Houseview Equity Strategy. She also co-manages Coronation's Houseview balanced strategies and has research responsibilities across a range of financial services and hospital stocks, among others. Sarah-Jane joined Coronation in 2008 as an equity analyst and has 18 years' investment experience.
Nic Stein
13 years' experience
BBusSc, CA (SA), CFA
Nic is a portfolio manager and analyst within the Coronation investment team with 13 years' investment experience. He co-manages the Coronation Aggressive Equity and Managed strategies as well as the Coronation Resources, Top 20 and Market Plus unit trust funds.
Nicholas Hops
8 years' experience
BBusSc, CFA
Nicholas is Head of South African Equity Research and a portfolio manager within the SA investment team. He co-manages the Coronation Resources, Industrial and Market Plus unit trust funds. Nicholas has eight years of investment experience.
Pallavi Ambekar
19 years' experience
BBusSc, CA (SA), CFA
Pallavi is Head of the Absolute Return investment unit and a portfolio manager across all strategies in the unit. With 19 years' investment experience, she also has research responsibility for certain large capitalisation shares listed on the JSE.
Charles de Kock
35 years' experience
BCom (Hons), MCom
Charles joined Coronation in 2005 and is a co-portfolio manager across all strategies within the Absolute Return investment unit. He also co-manages the Coronation Balanced Defensive and Capital Plus unit trust funds. Charles has more than 30 years' investment experience.
Neill Young
23 years' experience
BBusSc, CA (SA), CFA
Neill joined Coronation in 1998 and co-manages Coronation's Absolute Return Strategies as well as the Coronation Financial, Balanced Defensive and Capital Plus unit trust funds. Neill has more than 23 years' investment experience.
Nishan Maharaj
19 years' experience
BSc (Hons), MBA
Nishan is Head of Fixed Interest and responsible for the investment unit's process and performance across all strategies. He also manages all fixed interest assets. Nishan has 19 years' investment experience.
Adrian van Pallander
19 years' experience
BScEng, HTSdip, CFA, FRM
Adrian joined Coronation in 2002 and is a portfolio manager within Coronation's Fixed Interest investment unit. He is responsible for managing a portion of the fixed interest assets across all strategies as well as analysis, asset allocation modelling and portfolio construction monitoring. He has 20 years' investment experience.
Seamus Vasey
18 years' experience
BCom (Hons), MSc, CFA
Seamus is a portfolio manager and analyst within the Fixed Interest investment unit with more than 18 years' investment experience. He manages assets within Coronation’s specialist bond strategies. He also co-manages the Coronation Global Bond and Granite Hedge funds as well as the Global Strategic USD and Bond unit trust funds.
Steve Janson
15 years' experience
BBusSc
Steve is a portfolio manager and analyst within the Fixed Interest investment unit, with 15 years' investment experience. Steve's current responsibilities include fixed income and property research responsibilities as well as co-managing the Coronation Active Bond Strategy and Coronation Bond unit trust fund.
Mauro Longano
11 years' experience
BScEng (Hons), CA (SA)
Mauro is head of Fixed Interest research and a portfolio manager within the team. He co-manages the Strategic Cash Strategy along with the Strategic Income and Money Market unit trust funds, and recently started co-managing the Property Equity Unit Trust. Mauro has 11 years' investment experience.
Sinovuyo Ndaleni
6 years' experience
BBusSc
Sinovuyo is a portfolio manager within the Coronation Fixed Interest investment unit, where she co-manages the Coronation Strategic Cash and Medical Aid Cash strategies. She also co-manages the Coronation Jibar Plus and Money Market unit trust funds and has various analytical responsibilities. Sinovuyo joined Coronation in January 2016.
International Equity & Multi-Asset Funds
- Louis Stassen
32 years' experience - Tony Gibson
41 years' experience - Neil Padoa
14 years' experience - Humaira Surve
10 years' experience
Emerging Markets
- Gavin Joubert
23 years' experience - Suhail Suleman
20 years' experience - Iakovos Mekios
8 years' experience - Lisa Haakman
15 years' experience
Global Frontier Markets
- Peter Leger
23 years' experience - Gregory Longe
9 years' experience
Louis Stassen
32 years' experience
BSc, BCom (Hons), CFA
Louis is a founding member and former Chief Investment Officer of Coronation, with 32 years' investment experience. He is a key decision maker within the global investment team and co-manager across all Global Multi-Asset Class strategies.
Tony Gibson
41 years' experience
BCom
Tony is a founding member and a former Chief Investment Officer of Coronation. He has 41 years' investment experience.
Neil Padoa
14 years' experience
BEconSc, FFA, CFA
Neil is a portfolio manager and Head of Global Developed Markets. He joined Coronation in May 2012 and has 14 years' investment experience.
Humaira Surve
10 years' experience
BScEng, MBA, CFA
Humaira is a portfolio manager within the Global Developed Markets team, responsible for co-managing the Coronation Global Equity Select, Active Global Equity and Global Managed strategies. Humaira has 10 years' investment experience.
Gavin Joubert
23 years' experience
BBusSc, CA (SA), CFA
Head of Global Emerging Markets, Gavin has 23 years' experience as an investment analyst and portfolio manager. He joined Coronation in 1999 and manages assets within the Global Emerging Markets Equity Strategy.
Suhail Suleman
20 years' experience
BBusSc, CFA
Suhail is a portfolio manager, managing various strategies within the Global Emerging Markets investment unit. He joined Coronation in 2007 and has 20 years' investment experience.
Iakovos Mekios
8 years' experience
Ptychion (BSc), MIA, IMC, CFA
Iakovos is an analyst and portfolio manager within the Global Emerging Markets team. He is a co-manager of the Global Emerging Markets Strategy and the Global Emerging Markets Flexible unit trust fund. Iakovos has more than eight years' investment industry experience, all of which have been at Coronation.
Lisa Haakman
15 years' experience
BAcc (Hons), HDipTax, CA (SA), CFA
Lisa is an equity analyst in the Global Emerging Markets investment unit and co-manages a portion of the Coronation Global Emerging Markets Flexible unit trust fund. She has more than 15 years' investment experience and is a CFA charterholder.
Peter Leger
23 years' experience
BScEng, BCom (Hons), CFA
Peter is head of Global Frontier Markets and manager across all strategies within the investment unit. He joined Coronation in 2005 and has more than 23 years' experience in African financial markets as both a portfolio manager and research analyst.
Gregory Longe
9 years' experience
BBusSc, CA (SA), CFA
Greg co-manages the Africa Frontiers Strategy and has over 9 years' investment experience across Frontier markets. He joined the Global Frontiers investment unit in 2013 as an investment analyst.