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It’s the end of an era at Investec as CEO Stephen Koseff together with MD Bernard Kantor are set to step down in October this year.
Alec Hogg chats to Investec co-founder Bernard Kantor, who offers a unique insight into the Investec Story, sharing memories from the early days in Mooi Street to the group’s offices near St Paul’s in the City of London.
Visiting Investec’s managing director Bernard Kantor yesterday was a tonic in a typically wet London. There were pearls aplenty.
Investec has its critics. I’m not among them. As you’d expect of one who has watched brothers Ian and Bernard Kantor and three close friends from the East Rand – Stephen Koseff, Errol Grolman and Larry Nestadt – build a major global business from scratch. So results interviews with one of the two co-founders still … Read more
Insights from South African entrepreneurs Kenton Fine, Bernard Kantor, Douw Steyn, Sean Summers and Roy Ettlinger on how to succeed in business in the UK.
Investec plans to appoint former MTN executive, Philisiwe Sibiya, and ex-Bank of America investment banker, Henrietta Baldock, to its board.
On Rational Radio Live, after lambasting some of the fallen favourites, market veteran David Shapiro shared some of his own investment ideas.
Du Plessis tendered his resignation immediately after Phulemela’s audit committee approved financial results for the year to end July.
Investec is splitting up into an asset management business and a bank, an unusual move in a sector that prizes size and synergy.
Investec plans to spin off its asset-management business after a strategic review found there is little synergy with the company’s specialist banking and private wealth-management divisions.