Investec Group Stock

Investec Group Limited provides a range of financial products and services to a select client base in three principal markets, such as the U.K. and Europe, South Africa, and Asia/Australia, as well as certain other countries.

Divisions

The company operates through Asset Management, Wealth & Investment, and Specialist Banking divisions.

Asset Management division

This division’s sole focus is the provision of investment management services to its primary institutional client base worldwide. This division operates in Africa, Americas, the Asia Pacific, the U.K., and Europe.

The company’s clients include some of the world’s major private and public sector pension funds, financial institutions, corporates, foundations, central banks and intermediaries serving individual investors.

Wealth & Investment division

This division provides investment management services and independent financial planning advice to private clients, charities, and trusts. This division provides discretionary wealth management, investment advisory services, financial planning, and stockbroking/execution. This division operates in South Africa, the U.K., Europe, Hong Kong, and Mauritius.

The U.K. and Europe

Investment and Savings: The company provides discretionary and advisory portfolio management services for private clients; specialist investment management services for charities, pension schemes and trusts; independent financial planning advice for private clients; and specialist portfolio management services for international clients.

Pensions and Retirement: The company provides discretionary investment management for company pension and self invested personal pensions, and advice and guidance on pension schemes.

Financial Planning: The company provides retirement planning, succession planning, and bespoke advice and independent financial reviews.

South Africa

The company operates from eight offices across South Africa and provides portfolio management, wealth management and stockbroking services for private clients, charities, pension funds and trusts.

Specialist Banking division

This division offers a range of services, including lending, transactional banking, treasury and trading, advisory and investment activities. These services are aimed at government, institutional, corporate and high net worth and high-income clients.

This division engages in private banking; corporate, business and institutional banking; and investment activities. This division operates in South Africa, the U.K., Europe, Australia, Mauritius, Hong Kong, India, and the U.S.A.

Strategy

The company’s strategy is to serve select market niches as a focused provider of tailored structured solutions; and improve its existing position in principal businesses and geographies through organic growth and select bolt-on acquisitions.

The company’s long-term strategy is to build a diversified portfolio of businesses and geographies to support clients through varying markets and economic cycles.

The company’s strategic focus is to simplify, focus and grow with discipline; leverage its unique client profile and provide its clients with an integrated holistic offering; support its high-touch client approach with a comprehensive digital offering; ensure domestic relevance and critical mass in its chosen geographies; and facilitate its clients with cross-border transactions and flow across its chosen geographies.

Asset Management: The company’s strategy is to improve its advisor business; improve its North America institutional business; continue to invest across its investment platforms, primarily Multi-asset and China; ensure sustainability is at the core of its business; and achieve a successful demerger and listing.

Bank and Wealth: The company’s strategy is to focus on improving effectiveness of operating platform to better serve clients and deliver long-term shareholder returns; accelerate revenue growth; expand connectivity across the organization to more fully serve client needs; and bolster digital capabilities.

History

Investec Group Limited was founded in 1974.