Future Growth Asset Managers
Management in Cape Town

Futuregrowth, a member of the Old Mutual Investment Group (OMIGSA), manages fixed interest related investment strategies in a way that sustainably enriches lives. Asset Management - Futuregrowth manages client assets of around R100 billion.

Our team of investment professionals use their investment skills and diverse experience to manage the risks of investing in the capital markets while targeting benchmark-beating returns for investors. We are a specialist investment company which manages the full range of interest bearing and developmental investments in an ethical and sustainable way. Investing in transformation is at the heart of our business, investment and organisational strategies. We take our ethical responsibility towards our clients seriously. Ensuring the long-term sustainability and profitability of the company through sustainable business practices. Keeping our promises to clients through fundamental analysis that supports strong investment views. Would the founders of Futuregrowth in 1994 recognise the leading asset management company it’s become today? Originally, Futuregrowth was founded to bring Michael Leeman’s honours thesis to life. Backed by Southern Life, the initial suite of funds focused on social development and empowerment. The aim was to make money for pension funds while investing in disadvantaged communities. Fast forward more than 20 years and today Futuregrowth manages around R170 billion of clients’ assets, across the full range of fixed interest and development funds, and plays a key leadership role in the asset management industry in South Africa. This purpose is based on the belief that investors can genuinely make a positive difference in society while earning sound investment performance for pension fund members. This belief is what inspires us to pioneer development funds in sectors such as infrastructure, rural and township retail property, agriculture and renewable energy, channeling funds into innovative deals including low-income housing construction, a church in Soweto, urban regeneration projects and taxi finance, to name a few. Because of our commitment to our clients, Futuregrowth has on various occasions taken action that has not necessarily been in our own best interests. Take the furore that ensued in 2016 after we announced that we could no longer in good conscience invest pension fund members’ assets in certain SOEs until we had concluded a governance review. On another occasion, we identified unfair and unsustainable practices within the micro-lending industry as non-developmental and ceased further investments from our development funds into this sector. So to answer the question raised at the outset, we believe the answer is yes. The original concept of Futuregrowth is still alive, and thriving, in the Futuregrowth of today. Because even though the company has developed into a large and successful asset management brand, the philosophical belief on which the business was founded is still at the core of everything we do. At Futuregrowth we take our ethical responsibility towards our clients seriously. We apply investment judgment based on informed, diligent, objective, and independent analysis. Our behaviour is honest, competent, ethical, and complies with applicable laws and regulations. We avoid conflicts of interest in the provision of our products and services, but where unavoidable make full disclosure to clients. Our costs are fair, reasonable, and transparent and are clearly explained. We communicate clearly, accurately, and in a timely and effective manner. Futuregrowth is launched as a product within Southern Asset Management. The OMIG and Futuregrowth fixed interest teams merge to create a specialist fixed interest brand. Over the years, we have been nominated for and received numerous industry awards in various categories.