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Meet Shanay, Business Development
Shanay joined Mergence in May 2015 and is tasked with marketing the Mergence investment offering to institutional investors. He is an enthusiastic and avid networker, and can speak from real experience honed over a decade in the financial services industry.
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Shanay began his career in Johannesburg in 2005 as a graduate trainee in the Nedbank Postgraduate Programme, and gaining experience in company analysis as a resource to the Corporate Finance team. He relocated to Cape Town in 2007 to join Vunani Securities as a trainee sell-side Investment Analyst. In March 2009, he accepted an opportunity to join the investment research team at BoE Private Clients where he maintained his focus on SA listed retailers as a buy-side investment analyst. In 2010, the research team was integrated into Nedgroup Investments where Shanay gained exposure to the unit trust industry. He joined the Institutional team at Nedgroup Investments where he was responsible for marketing a range of local and offshore Nedgroup portfolios to retirement funds and other institutional clients. As Senior Institutional Investment Consultant at Nedgroup, Shanay was also responsible for an implemented consulting offering, and was integral in putting together a Nedgroup retirement solution offering which significantly enhanced his knowledge of the South African umbrella fund landscape.
Shanay was brought up in Durban. Outside work, when he is not trying to fix something at home, you will catch him on a golf course or on his Ducati.
Qualifications
B Com (Finance), 2003, University of KwaZulu Natal
B Com Hons (Finance), 2004, University of KwaZulu Natal
