Talking with… Ninety One founder Hendrik du Toit

The series continues as Richard Romer-Lee chats to Hendrik du Toit

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Richard Romer-Lee talks to Ninety One founder Hendrik du Toit about close-knit teams and greenwashing in the 91st instalment of the Talking With series…

How did you get into asset management? I was on my way to becoming an academic economist. I first realised, sitting in the library at Cambridge, that a PHD was probably not what I wanted to do. The financial markets opened up, it was the Thatcher revolution and I'd always had a penchant for the stock market. Economics doesn't teach you all that much about capital markets. You need to go and learn - and I'm still learning every day. What led you to set up Investec Asset Management? I worked at a large insurance company as an investment analyst. A friend of mine worked at this ver...

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