John is the Co-Chief Executive Officer at Investec Asset Management. John joined the firm in 1998. He held various leadership roles including Managing Director of the South African business before becoming Global Head of Client Group where he was responsible for all client-related activities globally. John has also been a member of the Global Executive Committee since its inception.

John has a background in strategic consulting having worked at Andersen Consulting and Bain & Co, where he gained experience in the banking, insurance, consumer retail, wholesale, technology, and transport sectors.

John graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand with a Bachelor of Commerce degree and Bachelor of Laws degree.

Investec Asset Management has grown from a small South African start-up to an international specialist asset management firm entrusted with over ZAR2.1 trillion* of client assets.

*As at end March 2019.

Ryan O. Murphy, is head of decision sciences for Morningstar Investment Management and a member of the behavioural insights team. Murphy’s research is interdisciplinary, bringing together methods from experimental economics, cognitive psychology, and mathematical modelling. The focus of his research is to better understand how people make decisions, especially about risk and money. His current work centres on measuring people’s preferences, dynamic goal-centric portfolio choice, and developing methodologies and frameworks that improve decision making quality.

Before joining Morningstar in 2016, he was the chair of decision theory and behavioural game theory at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich Switzerland, and a visiting professor at the University of Zurich economics department. Previously, he served as associate director of the Center for the Decision Sciences at Columbia University in New York.

Murphy has published extensively regarding human decision-making and has papers in Management Science; Experimental Economics; Uncertainty and Risk; Judgment and Decision Making; Personality and Social Psychology Review; and the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance. He’s taught university courses in decision theory, behavioural economics, negotiation analysis, experimental game theory, and statistics.

Piet Naude is the Professor of Ethics and Director of the “triple crown”- accredited University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) in South Africa. He holds an MA in Philosophy (cum laude) and PhD in Systematic Theology from Stellenbosch University.

He is the previous Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Academic of the Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, a capacity in which he dealt with professional accreditation and development bodies in Accounting, Architecture, Engineering, Industrial Psychology, Pharmacy and Nursing Science.

Piet holds an Alexander von Humboldt visiting scholarship to the University of Heidelberg (Germany) and was awarded life membership of the Centre for Theological Inquiry (CTI) at Princeton University. He is a rated researcher with more than 80 peer-reviewed publications and conference papers.

He is the former president of the Business Ethics Network of Africa (BEN-Africa) and currently serves on the accreditation committee of the African Association of Business Schools (AABS), as a trustee member of the Wilderness Foundation Africa and as non-executive director of USB-ED, the USB’s private executive education company.

Tal Nieburg is the Managing Director for Morningstar in South Africa, responsible for strategy, operations and delivery for all of Morningstar’s business lines in the South African market.

He joined Morningstar in 2010 and previously held roles spanning business development for asset management and hedge fund firms, as well as providing investment advice to private clients.

Tal holds an MBA from Milpark Business School in South Africa.

David O’Leary is the Founder and Principal at Kind Wealth, an advice-only financial planning practice helping next-gen clients reach their financial goals in a way that matches their values. David is also the Managing Director of Origin Capital; an impact investment firm directing capital to finance solutions that improve the lives of the world’s most vulnerable people in the hardest to reach places.

Previously David was the co-founder of a financial advisory practice called Eden Valley Partners managing discretionary portfolios for High Net-Worth Canadians. Prior to that David spent 13 years as Director of Manager Research with Morningstar; a global investment data and research provider. He has lived, worked, and volunteeredthroughout Africa at various times. One of his proudest accomplishments is founding and running Grassroots Youth Development while living in South Africa.

David is a frequent speaker at conferences and in the media (The Globe & Mail, The Toronto Star, BNN Bloomberg, CNBC Africa, etc). He holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Toronto, an MBA from the Rotman School of Business and the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Level 1 of the Certified Financial Planner® (CFP), and the Certified Professional Impact Analyst (CPIA) designations.

Victoria Reuvers is a director and senior portfolio manager for Morningstar Investment Management South Africa, responsible for leveraging Morningstar’s global investment capabilities to provide best practice investment consulting and portfolio construction services for clients.

Before joining Morningstar, Victoria was the founder and CEO of Trivium Capital (Pty) Ltd, an investment consulting and research firm in Cape Town. As well as driving strategy for the business, Victoria was a senior portfolio manager at Trivium Capital. Her role included investment research, portfolio construction and on-going portfolio management.

Before founding Trivium, Victoria gained extensive experience of fund analysis and quantitative research experience at Investec Asset Management where she worked in the retail fund management team. Prior to that, she worked for Investec Private Bank as part of their growth and acquisition finance team.

Victoria began her career at Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank. She holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Cape Town.

Diana Strandberg is a Senior Vice President and Director of International Equity at Dodge & Cox, an investment management firm in San Francisco with $308 billion in assets under management (as of March 31, 2019). Dodge & Cox is the investment advisor for the Dodge & Cox Funds and Dodge & Cox Worldwide Funds Plc (UCITS). She is a shareholder of the firm, which she joined in 1988.

Diana is a member of the Dodge & Cox Board of Directors, which is responsible for the strategic direction of the firm, and the board of Dodge & Cox Worldwide Funds plc, which oversees the firm’s UCITs offerings. She is a member of the firm’s International Equity (chair), U.S. Equity, and Global Equity Investment Committees.

In addition, Diana serves on the Executive Committee of the 20-20 Investment Association (whose members are investment managers, Plan Sponsors, Endowments, and Sovereign Wealth Funds), the Board of the Smithsonian, and the National Board of Summer Search (a youth mentoring organisation).

Diana earned a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1981 and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School in 1986. She has served on the Board of Trustees of the University of California, Berkeley Foundation since 2008. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Eugene’s career started as a Lecturer in the Department of Statistics at the University of Stellenbosch, where he is still involved on a part-time basis. During this period, he completed his Master of Commerce degree with a focus on Financial Risk Management and alternative investments with a dissertation on investment opportunities in the listed African space.

He joined Novare in 2009, initially as Risk Manager and finally fulfilled the role of Head of Investments for Novare’s South African focused investment products. His responsibilities included the oversight of the investments team, product development, manager research as well as actively participating in the investment committees of both traditional and hedge fund product offerings. During his time at Novare he was also actively involved with ASISA serving as both the hedge fund standing committee Chairperson and ASISA CIS standing committee member.

Eugene has extensive experience in manager research and financial markets and has written several articles covering a wide range of financial topics as well as participate as a speaker at several investment conferences.

He is currently portfolio specialist at Morningstar Investments Management South Africa.

He is a qualified Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a Certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM).

Zapiro studied architecture at the University of Cape Town but having been conscripted into the army, he refused to bear arms and became active in the newly-formed United Democratic Front—and was arrested under the Illegal Gatherings Act. He also participated in the End Conscription Campaign—for which he designed the logo.

On a Fulbright Scholarship, he studied media arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York and on his return to South Africa, he produced educational comics.

Today, he is the editorial cartoonist for Daily Maverick and before that worked for the Sunday Times, Mail & Guardian, The Times and many other publications.

Recognised as one of the Top Ten cartoonists in the world, please welcome Jonathan Shapiro – better known to us as ZAPIRO.

Malungelo has more than 20 years investment experience having worked for world class large asset managers in South Africa.

Malungelo serves as a non-executive director of several corporates. He also sits on the ASISA board and the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Investment Committee.

Malungelo’s qualifications include a Bachelor of Science (Honours) (UCT), a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) in Finance (UCT), and a Owners/Presidents Management (OPM) Programme from Harvard Business School.

Malungelo is a member of the YPO (Young President’s Organisation).