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Meet Fabian, Deputy Managing Director
With great gravitas, a powerful intellect and a quiet sense of humour, Fabian has led Mergence as Investment Strategist, Chief Investment Officer and, since 2015, Director: Investments with oversight over both Public market/Listed and Private market/Unlisted Investments. He joined Mergence in 2006.
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Fabian’s career in financial services and investments spans some 30 years. He has held a number of senior and executive management positions namely: Head of the Group Asset/Liability Management function at Standard Bank/SCMB (Treasury); senior manager of ALM/risk assessment at Eskom Treasury; senior positions at the Eskom Pension Fund of which most of the time was spent heading Investment Multi-Management and playing a major role in investment and portfolio strategy as well as asset allocation. He then joined Brait SA as Executive Director and lead investment manager for its Fund of Hedge Funds.
Read Fabian’s quarterly macro-economic commentary and you will get a sense of how deeply immersed he is in the world’s latest thinking and not shy to state well-argued contrarian views when necessary. He developed a good sense for business as a young boy by helping his father in their butchery in Kliptown, close to Soweto. As a counterpoise to his intellectual life, Fabian was brought up within a family where singing and music played a big part and as a “laaitie” he was already part of a band. He enjoys unwinding with his family and playing the guitar when there is opportunity.
In his private capacity, Fabian also believes in “giving back” and has assisted the Grimley School for the Deaf in Hout Bay with fundraising from corporates and foundations for educational requirements and is supporting various national registered charities.
Qualifications
B Com (Accounting, Economics), 1987, University of the Western Cape
Higher Diploma (Education), 1987, University of the Western Cape
Member of the Investment Analysts Society
