PRESCIENT INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
Investment Services in Cape Town

Our services include investment management, fund services and administration, stockbroking, wealth management, retail and institutional retirement and insurance products. With innovative solutions across a range of financial disciplines, Prescient aims to provide certainty to its clients. Prescient Investment Management (PIM) offers innovative solutions that focus on their clients’ needs. PIM focuses on delivering superior risk-adjusted returns across a range of mandates and this has led to us being one of South Africa’s leading investment management firms in this area of expertise. Prescient Wealth Management provides a full suite of specialist services for high-net-worth clients and their families, including family office services, Multi-Asset and Multi-Fund Portfolio management capabilities. Prescient Securities is a premium rated BEE stockbroking firm primarily focused on the institutional market. We offer efficient trade and execution services as well as diverse research competencies across asset classes and sectors. Prescient Fund Services is a separately incorporated business offering a comprehensive range of Global Fund Administration and platform services to its clients. At Prescient Securities (PSec) we pride ourselves on being an independent, dynamic and progressive, client-focused stockbroking business. Our highly valued client relationships are based on integrity and trust. This means that trading with us also allows investment managers to claim points under the Enterprise Development elements of the draft codes. We provide focused research across asset classes coupled with fundamental and strategic research tailored to client needs. PSec also offers risk management and quantitative analysis services and has systems to assist clients in these areas. The sole focus of the PSec Equity Research Division is to produce research that is highly informative and adds value to our clients. Our independence and size allows us the flexibility to focus on enriched research only, rather than covering areas where little value can be added. The majority of this work is done on both a bespoke and proprietary basis for larger institutional clients. The derivatives team provides clients with dedicated and innovative bespoke investment trading solutions. The bond trading team works on an agency basis, relying on good market information, technical and trading knowledge to generate and execute orders for clients. It has been benchmarked and tested to industrial standards. The product is free to clients, and due to its growing popularity, is also now available for stand-alone or enterprise-level licensing. The aim is to increase saving over and above retirement based-savings through a more accessible, tax-free product. Clients selecting a Tax-Free Savings Broker Account must have the knowledge to choose shares and understand and be able to tolerate the associated capital risk. PSec raises capital for listed corporates on a private placement basis from larger asset managers and institutions. The investment is in the form of a straightforward note and does not involve a formal listing programme.