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STANLIB Multi-asset investing in focus

South African investors have experienced a reduction in returns from traditional balanced funds over the last few years, with the 5-year rolling return declining over time.

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Marius Oberholzer

STANLIB's Head of Multi-Asset

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Alan Ehret

Head of Retail Distribution

Our recent webinar was hosted by Marius Oberholzer and Alan Ehret, STANLIB’s Head of Multi-Asset and Head of Retail Distribution. They discussed the Multi-Asset team’s approach to adopting more flexible strategies to navigate the lower growth environment.

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Marius Oberholzer
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Marius Oberholzer is the Head of Multi-Asset at STANLIB Asset Management. He and his team manage assets across absolute return, multi-strategy, and hedge fund mandates. They design, deploy, and risk-manage assets globally, using qualitative and quantitative techniques and utilizing passive, active, listed, and unlisted assets to deliver the required client outcomes.

Before joining STANLIB Asset Management, Marius gained global investment experience in London and Hong Kong, trading and managing TT International Hedge Fund’s products. He combined direct investment strategies with bottom-up and top-down macro insights across the firm’s Hedge and Long-Only investment offerings. Upon returning to SA, he engaged in corporate finance activities, private market deals, and structuring before joining STANLIB Asset Management as Co-Head of Absolute Returns. He assumed sole leadership of the franchise in 2015, expanding the team and its capabilities to their current level.

At STANLIB Asset Management, Marius leads the Multi-Asset team, chairs Asset Allocation meetings, and is a member of Investment Exco. He is also the licensed Key Individual for STANLIB Asset Management’s Hedge Fund business. Marius has represented STANLIB Asset Management’s infrastructure investments as a non-executive director and served on the board of a listed Fintech special purpose acquisition company.

Marius holds a BCom (Economics and Commercial Law) from the University of Stellenbosch and an MSc (Global Finance) from the Stern School of Business at New York University and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He also holds the IMC UK investment qualification.