Optimise returns

We offer a fully customizable, comprehensive investment suite to construct your required balance of yield, risk and returns, duration and liquidity.

Structured sales

Our institutional structuring experts create assets using bespoke derivative and funding structures to fill in any gaps you may have once your off-the-shelf structuring solutions are in place. We also provide hedging solutions for insurance companies’ liabilities.

Our Africa structuring team provides solutions for your hedging currency, FI and commodity exposures as well as providing secure funding and/or finance solutions for banks in Africa.

We create bespoke products for the FirstRand Group’s retail client base, which seamlessly link to local/offshore equity indices. This team also offers access to leading global technologies that provide exposure to global equities.

Our offshore structuring team originates, constructs and sells mostly African credit assets into our London client base.

Syndication and distribution

The team offers clients a fully underwritten funding package and provide access to domestic and international funding efficiently, backed by our strong investor relationships, global distribution reach and deep syndication capabilities across Africa, Europe and India.

Financial innovation

We focus on innovation and data to unlock financial inclusion, environmental, social and governance (ESG) and climate outcomes for our clients.

Cash investments

Our investment specialists use risk mitigation techniques and access to our comprehensive investment suite to create innovative and bespoke product blends that cater to your unique needs in balancing duration, risk and access to cash and within your specific regulatory and mandate parameters to provide optimal returns for your business.

Regulatory efficiency

Our experts keep up to date with ongoing regulatory changes and are aware of their consequences to ensure our insurance and investment managers’ portfolios and allocations are compliant.