People

The Quantitative Investments' team consists of:

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  Saliegh Salaam

  Joint Boutique Head: Quantitative Investments

  Current Responsibility

  Joint responsibility for driving the investment process; developing and implementing the boutique strategy and creating an enabling environment for the investment team to excel.

  Saliegh believes foresight is his key asset to the boutique.

  Previous Experience

  Saliegh has 14 years of financial markets experience encompassing the entire investments value chain, from dealing, equity analysis, portfolio management and leadership.

  

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  Grant Watson

  Joint Boutique Head: Quantitative Investments

  Current Responsibility

  Joint responsibility for driving the investment process; developing and implementing the boutique strategy and creating an enabling environment for the investment team to excel.

  Grant has 15 years of financial markets experience encompassing proprietary trading in currencies, equity derivatives, and hedge fund management.

  Previous Experience

  He began his career in the currency markets, trading currency derivatives on a proprietary basis for one of the large South African banks.

  He is a qualified stock broker and was a founder member of the team that set up one of the first hedge funds in South Africa in 1997. He has been with Futuregrowth Asset Management since 2004, which was acquired by OMIGSA in 2008. He manages various quantitative funds in the hedge funds; absolute return and long space.

  

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  Mario Fisher

  Quantitative Analyst

  Current Responsibility

  Mario joined OMIGSA in March 2006 as a quantitative analyst. As a member of the Quantitative Investments team, he is responsible for managing the research agenda, alpha modelling and co-manager of the Active Quant Fund, Hedge Fund and Absolute Return Fund.

  Mario has a diverse background, covering information systems, statistics and computer science. He has worked in various roles, locally and abroad and his complementary skill set is perfectly suited for quantitative investing where technology and investments are inter-related.

  Previous Experience

  Prior to joining OMIGSA, he was a Senior Systems Analyst at Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets (UK). Mario also worked as a Quantitative Specialist at Deutsche Bank Global Equity Derivatives (UK). Prior to that, Mario worked at Futuregrowth Asset Management, RMB Asset Management and Southern Asset Management in various roles, including, Senior Systems Developer, Portfolio Construction Specialist, Quant Analyst and Assistant Portfolio Manager.

  Mario has 12 years of work experience in the investments industry.