- CEO
- Hendrik Jacobus du Toit
- Full Time Employees
- 1,346
- Sector
- Finance
- Industry
- Investment managers
- Address
- 36 Hans Strijdom Ave Cape Town WC South Africa 2195
- IPO Date
- Mar 16, 2020
- Business
- Ninety One Group is an independent global asset manager specializing in active investment management across equities, fixed income, multi-asset, and alternative investment strategies. The company offers a broad range of products including thematic, quality, value, and factor-based equity strategies spanning global, regional, emerging, and frontier markets; multi-asset solutions with diversified portfolios across equities, government and corporate bonds, currencies, volatility, and commodities; fixed income strategies targeting both developed and emerging markets sovereign and corporate credit; and alternative investments. It serves a wide client base including private and public pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurers, corporations, foundations, central banks, wealth managers, private and retail investors across regions including the United Kingdom, South Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Americas. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, Ninety One operates offices globally, including significant presence in London.
In recent strategic developments, Ninety One completed the acquisition of Sanlam Investment Management Ltd. in June 2025, a transaction valued at approximately ZAR 3.7 billion, which established Ninety One as Sanlam’s primary active asset manager for single-managed local and global products. This acquisition is part of a 15-year strategic partnership granting Ninety One preferred access to Sanlam’s distribution network and led to Sanlam acquiring a significant equity stake in Ninety One, amounting to about 12.3% ownership on a dual-listed company basis. The deal positioned Ninety One to strengthen its market presence and expand its asset management capabilities, expected to be accretive to earnings and dividends from inception.
Ninety One Managing approximately GBP 130 billion in assets under management, leverages its specialist investment teams with distinct philosophies to produce tailored investment outcomes based on long-term value creation and comprehensive risk management. The firm emphasizes collaboration, diversity, and sustainability across its offerings and operations. It is publicly listed on the London Stock Exchange and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and employs over 1,200 people worldwide.
This combination of comprehensive product offerings, geographic diversification, and recent transformative acquisition underpins Ninety One Group’s positioning as a prominent global asset management firm with a strong emerging markets heritage and growing international footprint.