Philip Liebenberg

Abax is an active, bottom-up, fundamental valuation driven investor. They apply a valuation-based process to derive expected returns for the various asset classes that make up their investment universe. Portfolios are structured to maximize expected returns for an acceptable level of downside risk. Their top-down strategic asset class allocations are combined with their bottom-up view of individual securities.

SIM is an active, value-based manager that manages both passively and actively managed unit trusts, hedge funds and segregated and pooled retirement funds which aims to protect and grow client’s wealth over the long-term. Generally, the firm invests in assets that are trading below their fair value estimate and dis-invest from assets that are trading above the firm’s fair value estimate.