Legal

General

Old Mutual Investment Group (South Africa) (Pty) Limited (Reg No 1993/003023/07) is a licensed financial services provider, FSP 604, approved by the Registrar of Financial Services Providers (www.fsb.co.za) to provide intermediary services and advice in terms of the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act 37 of 2002. Old Mutual Investment Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Old Mutual South Africa Limited.

The OMIGSA boutiques include:

• Old Mutual Specialised Finance (Pty) Ltd. (FSP 16622)
• Old Mutual Investment Group Property Investments (Pty) Ltd.
  (FSP 817)
• Old Mutual Global Index Trackers (Pty) Ltd t/a Dibanisa Fund Managers (FSP 721)
• Sym|mETRY Multi-Manager, a division of Old Mutual Life Assurance Company (South Africa) Ltd (FSP 703)
• Marriott Asset Management (Pty) Ltd (FSP 592)
• Futuregrowth Asset Management (Pty) Ltd (FSP 520)

The boutiques below are divisions of Old Mutual Investment Group (South Africa) (Pty) Limited (FSP 604):

• Absolute Return Investments
• Alternative Investments
• ELECTUS
• Investment Research
• Long Term Equity Investments
• Macro Strategy Investments
• Toros Equity
• Value Equity Investments

The financial service providers above are approved by the Registrar of Financial Services Providers (Financial Services Board of South Africa, www.fsb.co.za) to provide advisory and intermediary services in terms of the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act, 37 of 2002.

Contact details

You may contact us at any of the following:

Physical Address:

Mutualpark
Jan Smuts Drive
Pinelands
7405

Postal Address:

P.O. Box 878
Cape Town
8000

Telephone Number:

021 509 5022

Fax Number:

021 509 5025

Operating Hours:

08:00 - 17:00 Monday to Friday

Our Compliance Officer is:

Zulfa Abdurahman
Tel: 021 509 2570
Email: Zulfa Abdurahman

Our Information Officer is:

Mobasheer Patel
Tel: 021 509 0445
Email: Mobasheer Patel

You may download our Information Manual here.

To access the information manuals of other entities within the Old Mutual Investment Group, please click on the required option below:

• African Infrastructure Investment Managers
• Infrastructure Empowerment Fund Managers

(The Information Manuals are in pdf format, if you cannot view these files then please download Adobe Acrobat Reader.)

Conflicts of Interest

The Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act requires every financial services provider to adopt, implement and maintain a conflict of interest management policy. The purpose of the Policy is to set out the parameters for managing any conflicts of interest that may arise in the rendering of financial services to customers. For more detailed information, please download a copy of the OMIGSA policy. Should you require copies of the policies of other financial services providers within the Old Mutual Investment Group, please email the Compliance Officer.

Complaints

We will reply to any complaints that we receive. Those that are submitted in terms of the Financial Advisers and Intermediary Services Act, 37 of 2002 should be in writing and can be addressed to us at any of the above addresses.

If you are dissatisfied with the response, we would encourage you to engage us directly but you may elect to contact the Ombud for Financial Services at:

Insurance cover

We have comprehensive crime and professional indemnity insurance, the details of which may be obtained on request.

Information on this website

While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of information contained on this website, Old Mutual plc, the Old Mutual Investment Group, its associated companies, its directors or employees provide no representation or warranty, express or implied, regarding the accuracy, completeness or correctness of information contained on this website.

Information transmitted via the internet (including email) is susceptible to unlawful access or monitoring and the Old Mutual Investment Group does not accept liability for any loss, harm or damage suffered by users as a result of such access or monitoring.

Any opinion expressed is intended for general information, is directed at institutional investors and is subject to change at any time without notice.

Applications to invest in any product referred to on this website may only be made on the basis of the offer documentation relating to that specific investment. Should you wish to discuss a possible investment or to review our offer documentation, please contact us.

This website and the information herein do not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities. This website is a general outline of matters related to the Old Mutual Investment Group and no representations or warranties are given or implied. The information on this website is subject to discussion, completion and amendment and you should not rely on the contents of this website.

Investment disclosures

The Old Mutual Investment Group is a member of the Old Mutual Group and is ultimately held by Old Mutual plc (“OML”), which is listed on the JSE Limited as well as the London Stock Exchange. Similarly, Nedbank Group Limited (“NED”) is a related entity and is listed on the JSE Limited. Your portfolio may hold OML and NED shares, which are subject to restricted trading conditions.

Market fluctuations and changes in rates of exchange or taxation may have an effect on the value, price or income of investments. Since the performance of financial markets fluctuates, an investor may not get back the full amount invested. Past performance is not necessarily a guide to future investment performance.

On the take-on of new clients, bank accounts may be opened with Nedbank Limited, a related party. Clients may request that the bank account be opened with a different bank. Furthermore, in the cash management process and within the limits of client mandates, cash may be placed on call with Nedbank.

Brokerage may be directed to Nedcor Securities (Pty) Ltd, an associated entity, within the bounds of policies governing these processes.

Old Mutual Investment Group, whose success is measured by investment performance, is a registered financial services provider, and is charged with the duty and responsibility to administer and manage your portfolio as a fiduciary in utmost good faith and with all the due care, diligence and skill that can reasonably be expected of an expert investment manager, and generally to act in your best interests at all times.

Personal trading by staff is restricted to ensure that there is no conflict of interest. All directors and those staff who are likely to have access to price sensitive and unpublished information in relation to the Old Mutual Group are further restricted in their dealings in Old Mutual shares.

All employees of the Old Mutual Investment Group are remunerated with salaries and standard short-term and long-term incentives. No commission or incentives are paid by the Old Mutual Investment Group to any persons. All inter-group transactions are done on an arm’s length basis.

In respect of pooled, life wrapped products, the underlying assets are owned by Old Mutual Life Assurance Company (South Africa) Limited, who may elect to exercise any votes on these underlying assets independently of Old Mutual Investment Group.

In respect of these products, no fees or charges will be deducted if the policy is terminated within the first 30 days. Returns on these products depend on the performance of the underlying assets.

The Old Mutual Investment Group have financial services providers that are registered with the Financial Services Board of South Africa and are charged with the duty and responsibility to administer and manage your portfolio as a fiduciary in utmost good faith and with all the due care, diligence and skill that can reasonably be expected of an expert investment manager, and generally to act in your best interests at all times.

Intellectual Property

The information and branding (including logos, graphics and any multimedia) contained on this website are subject to copyright with all rights reserved. You may use the information and print or reproduce materials from this website only for your own non-commercial personal use.

Electronic Information

The news contained in any electronic newsletter should not be regarded as an offer to sell or a solicitation of any offer to buy any investment or to enter into an investment agreement in any jurisdiction. Information and opinions contained therein have been compiled or arrived at by Old Mutual Investment Group from sources believed to be reliable, but Old Mutual Investment Group does not accept liability for any loss arising from the use thereof nor makes any representation as to their accuracy or completeness.

No liability is accepted by Old Mutual Investment Group and no representations are made as to the currency, accuracy or completeness of documents or other material in any electronic newsletter.

Privacy Policy

OMIGSA and its employees respect your privacy and the confidentiality of your personal information. Personal information that you supply to us via this website (your personal information) is only used and processed:

• for the purpose for which we request the information, as stated on the relevant web pages; and/or
• to the extent necessary to enable us to meet our obligations to you; and/or
• to comply with our legal obligations.

We will not disclose your personal information to third parties outside the Old Mutual Group, unless:

• we are permitted or required to do so by lawful process or a valid subpoena, or if a violation or suspected violation of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act or the Financial Intelligence Centre Act has occurred;
• it is in the public interest to do so;
• it is necessary to protect the rights of a company in the Old Mutual Group;
• when engaging service providers who process personal information on our behalf; or
• you have expressly authorised us to do so.

Your information will not be shared with other companies in the Old Mutual Group to inform you about products and services that might be of interest to you. You will always be given the opportunity to instruct us to remove your details from our mailing list.

If you interact with us or if you browse our website anonymously, we may from time to time collect information such as your email address. We may also use “Cookies” to enable us to provide features that allow users to use this website more efficiently and effectively. “Cookies” are small pieces of data stored on the user’s hard drive and will not be used by OMIGSA to store personal information.

OMIGSA may from time to time use your personal information to compile profiles for statistical purposes. However, such profiles or statistical data cannot be linked to any identifiable individual.

You may access the information we hold about you and request to correct any errors or update information on the website.

We reserve the right to amend this online privacy policy at any time by posting the amended policy on our website. Unless otherwise stated, the current version will apply each time you access our website.

Liability and Indemnity

The contents of the website are a general outline of matters related to OMIGSA and no representations or warranties are given or implied by OMIGSA, its associated companies, affiliates, subsidiary companies, holding companies, directors or employees. The information on this website is subject to discussion, completion and amendment and you should not rely on the contents of this website.

OMIGSA, its associated companies, its affiliates, subsidiary companies, holding companies, directors or employees:

• accept no liability if an investor decides to invest based on the contents of the website;
• make no representations as to the currency, accuracy or completeness of the contents of the website;
• shall not be liable for any loss or damage arising from or otherwise in connection with your use of the website;
• do not warrant that functions available on this website will be uninterrupted or error free, or that defects will be corrected, or that the server that makes it available is free of viruses or bugs. You acknowledge that it is your responsibility to implement sufficient procedures and virus checks (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your particular requirements for the accuracy of data input and output.