WHO WE ARE
Quantec is a proudly South African asset manager serving our clients in the Southern African region. Our management team has over 80 combined years of investment and financial markets experience.
Quantec has a strategic alliance with Phoenix Wealth Management for the mutual benefit of the clients of both firms. Intellectual capital and operational capabilities are complementary and shared.
PHOENIX WEALTH MANAGEMENTMeet the team
Geoff Young
Chief Investment Officer
Geoff is an investment professional with over 30 years’ experience in the global asset management industry and is co-founder of Quantec. His investment career began in the mid 90’s as a Portfolio Manager with State Street Research & Management in London. In 2001 Geoff joined Old Mutual Asset Managers in Cape Town and in 2004 moved to Fortis Investments in Belgium. Thereafter he spent several years with the Multi Asset team at BNP Paribas Asset Management in Amsterdam and London. Geoff was also engaged as a technical consultant at leading investment firms in the UK including Janus Henderson, Columbia Threadneedle and the Multi Asset investment team at Schroders.
Geoff is a CA(SA) and holds a BCom & Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting from the University of Cape Town and an IMC from the CFA Society of the United Kingdom.
Crispin Gell
Portfolio Manager
Crispin is a director of the Phoenix Group of companies and has a successful 20-year track record as a financial markets professional and is a member of the Derivatives Advisory Committee of the JSE. His experience includes specialising in derivatives structuring and trading at several investment banks including UBS, Deutsche Securities and Nedbank Capital.
Crispin is a CA(SA), a CFA charterholder and holds a both a BCom(Honours) and MCom (Taxation).
Gerhard Labuschagne
Investment Analyst
Gerhard has over 15 years experience in the financial markets trading equities and commodity derivatives. He was actively involved in launching many of the commodity contracts that now trade on the JSE. Gerhard specialises in developing quantitative investment strategies and managing equity portfolios.
Gerhard is a qualified Chemical Engineer and holds a BSc(Hons) in Financial Mathematics and has completed a course in machine learning from Stanford Graduate School of Business in the USA.
Peet Serfontein
Quantitative Strategist
Peet has over 20 years financial markets experience in market analysis, trading strategies and investment research. Peet was a Financial Mail Top Analyst in the Technical Analysis category for four consecutive years from 2014 to 2017 and specialises in technical and quantitative methodologies.
Peet sits on the Board of the Financial Technical Analysts’ Society of Southern Africa and is a member of the International Federation of Technical Analysts. He is a Registered Advisor at the Financial Sector Conduct Authority and a regular market commentator on CNBC Africa and contributor to FinWeek.
Peet holds a BCom (Hons) Investment Management from the University of Johannesburg.
