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
20 years' experience - Quinton Ivan
16 years' experience - Neville Chester
24 years' experience - Neill Young
22 years' experience - Sarah-Jane Alexander
17 years' experience - Nic Stein
12 years' experience - Adrian Zetler
11 years' experience
South African Absolute Return Funds
- Charles de Kock
35 years' experience - Pallavi Ambekar
18 years' experience
Fixed Interest
- Nishan Maharaj
18 years' experience - Adrian van Pallander
19 years' experience - Seamus Vasey
17 years' experience - Steve Janson
14 years' experience - Mauro Longano
9 years' experience - Sinovuyo Ndaleni
5 years' experience
Karl Leinberger
20 years' experience
BBusSc, CA (SA), CFA
Karl is Chief Investment Officer and has 20 years of investment industry experience.
Quinton Ivan
16 years' experience
BBusSc, BCom (Hons), CA (SA), CFA
Quinton is head of SA Equity research and co-manages Coronation’s Core Equity Strategy and the Presidio Hedge Fund. He also has research responsibilities for a number of retail, pharmaceutical and construction stocks. Quinton joined Coronation in 2005 and has 16 years’ investment experience.
Neville Chester
24 years' experience
BCom, CA (SA), CFA
Neville is a senior member of the investment team with 24 years’ investment experience. He joined Coronation in 2000 and manages Coronation’s Aggressive Equity Strategy. He also co-manages the Coronation Top 20 and Market Plus unit trust funds.
Neill Young
22 years' experience
BBusSc, CA (SA), CFA
Neill joined Coronation in 1998 and co-manages Coronation's Core Equity Strategy and the Coronation Financial unit trust fund. His research responsibilities extend to the banking sector as well as a number of financial stocks. Neill has 22 years' investment experience.
Sarah-Jane Alexander
17 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 food producers and hospital stocks, among others. Sarah-Jane joined Coronation in 2008 as an equity analyst and has 17 years' investment experience.
Nic Stein
12 years' experience
BBusSc, CA (SA), CFA
Nic joined the Coronation investment team in 2009 as an equity analyst and has 12 years’ investment experience. He currently co-manages Coronation’s Aggressive Equity Strategy and the Coronation Resources unit trust fund. Nic also analyses a number of shares spanning mining and the financial services sectors.
Adrian Zetler
11 years' experience
BAcc, BCom (Hons), CA (SA), CFA
Adrian is a portfolio manager with 11 years of investment industry experience.
Charles de Kock
35 years' experience
BCom (Hons), MCom
Charles heads up the Absolute Return team and has 35 years' investment industry experience.
Pallavi Ambekar
18 years' experience
BBusSc, CA (SA), CFA
Pallavi is a senior portfolio manager responsible for the co-management of institutional portfolios within the Absolute Return strategy as well as the Coronation Balanced Defensive and Capital Plus unit trust funds. She has 18 years’ investment experience. She also has research responsibility for certain large capitalisation shares listed on the JSE.
Nishan Maharaj
18 years' experience
BSc (Hons), MBA
Nishan is head of Fixed Interest and has 18 years of investment industry experience.
Adrian van Pallander
19 years' experience
BScEng, HTSdip, CFA, FRM
Adrian joined Coronation in 2002 and is a portfolio manager within Coronation 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 19 years’ investment experience.
Seamus Vasey
17 years' experience
BCom (Hons), MSc
Seamus is a portfolio manager and analyst within the Fixed Interest investment unit with 17 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. Seamus joined Coronation’s Fixed Interest investment unit in 2015.
Steve Janson
14 years' experience
BBusSc
Steve is a portfolio manager and analyst within the Fixed Interest investment unit with 14 years’ investment experience. Steve’s current responsibilities include trading as well as co-managing the Coronation Active Bond Strategy and Coronation Bond unit trust fund.
Mauro Longano
9 years' experience
BScEng (Hons), CA (SA)
Mauro is Head of Fixed Interest Research and a portfolio manager with has nine years of investment industry experience.
Sinovuyo Ndaleni
5 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
31 years' experience - Tony Gibson
40 years' experience - Neil Padoa
13 years' experience - Humaira Surve
9 years' experience
Emerging Markets
- Gavin Joubert
21 years' experience - Suhail Suleman
19 years' experience
Global Frontier Markets
- Peter Leger
23 years' experience
Louis Stassen
31 years' experience
BSc, BCom (Hons), CFA
Louis is a founding member and former chief investment officer of Coronation, with 31 years' investment experience. He is a key decision maker within the global investment team and co-manager across all Global Multi-Asset Class strategies, as well as the Global Equity Strategy.
Tony Gibson
40 years' experience
BCom
Tony is a founding member and a former Chief Investment Officer of Coronation. He has managed the Coronation Global Equity Fund of Funds product since inception and also co-manages portfolios within the Global Multi-Asset Class offering. Tony has 40 years' investment experience.
Neil Padoa
13 years' experience
BEconSc, FFA
Neil is Head of Global Developed Markets and has 13 years of investment industry experience.
Humaira Surve
9 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. She joined Coronation in 2012 as a global developed markets analyst. Humaira has eight years' investment experience.
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 23 years’ experience in African financial markets as both a portfolio manager and research analyst.