Sanlam Ai Global Managed Risk Fund

Aims to provide a return commensurate with global equities over a market cycle while minimising capital loss and time in loss risk.

100% driven by Ai (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) technologies. The predictive investment engine has 4 ½ years' live track record.

Sanlam Centre American Select Equity Fund

The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital through exposure to equity securities of large capitalisation US companies with performance emphasis placed on upside/downside capture.

James A. Abate, MBA, CPA, CFA

James A. Abate, MBA, CPA, CFA, is the portfolio manager of the Sanlam Centre American Select Equity Fund and serves as Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of the Investment Manager, Centre Asset Management, LLC.

Prior to founding Centre Asset Management, Mr Abate was US Investment Director for GAM, responsible for the start-up and portfolio management of the firm’s in-house strategies focused on the large cap segment of the US equity market.

Sanlam Global High Quality Fund

The objective of the fund is to produce compound total returns in excess of the MSCI World Index over the medium to long term.

Pieter Fourie

As Head of Global Equities, Pieter is the lead fund manager for the Sanlam Global High Quality Fund and the Clime International Equity Fund having joined the firm in mid 2012. His responsibilities include the design, management and implementation of our global equity client offering, including segregated mandates for high net worth individuals. Pieter oversees a team of five analysts focusing on global and UK equities across multiple industries. Current assets managed by the investment team in direct global and UK equity mandates are worth more than $0.5 billion.

Sanlam Multi-Strategy Fund

A diversified, absolute return fund that aims to participate in rising markets and defend capital during downturns. Aims to provide a return of inflation plus 4% per annum over a market cycle. In addition to that, the fund targets a positive, absolute return on a rolling three year basis.

Mike Pinggera

Mike joined Sanlam in January 2013 to develop a multi-strategy proposition. Previously, he headed up the multi-asset group at Insight Investments. Before this, Mike spent 20 years at Credit Suisse where he held senior positions including Head of Special Mandates and Head of Trusts and Charities in the asset management and private banking divisions. As Head of Multi-Asset Solutions at Credit Suisse, Mike managed a team of 14 with responsibility for £5bn of AUM.

Sanlam Real Assets Fund

A concentrated portfolio of liquid real assets securities. Aims to provide a return of inflation plus 4% per annum over a market cycle.

Mike Pinggera

Mike joined Sanlam in January 2013 to develop a multi-strategy proposition. Previously, he headed up the multi-asset group at Insight Investments. Before this, Mike spent 20 years at Credit Suisse where he held senior positions including Head of Special Mandates and Head of Trusts and Charities in the asset management and private banking divisions. As Head of Multi-Asset Solutions at Credit Suisse, Mike managed a team of 14 with responsibility for £5bn of AUM.