Sanlam Investment Management (SIM)

Building Wealth. Building Prospects. Building Lives.
A Truly South African Investment Manager

With more than R300bn under management, Sanlam Investment Management is one of SA’s largest asset management companies; offering a diverse range of investment products, namely collective investment schemes, life-pooled products and segregated portfolios for third-party institutional and retail clients as well as the Sanlam Group.

Sanlam Investment Management, a single-manager asset management company, is the investment heart of Sanlam Investments – the operational cluster that oversees Sanlam’s 14 entrepreneurial investment businesses..

SIM’s diverse range of investment products are managed by multi-specialist investment teams. Thus when you invest with us you get access to a business that consciously fosters flexibility, a sense of ownership and independence in its investment teams, while also taking full advantage of all the benefits of being a large investment player and part of a broader, international financial services group.

We have a strong team of research analysts who have access to a number of proprietary analytical systems that give them the edge in making investment decisions. A single research platform also ensures a rich cross-pollination of ideas across the entire investment business and the ability to leverage those ideas in different investment realms.

SIM invests according to a pragmatic value investment philosophy. We believe that markets are not efficient and, as a result, we can add value relative to the general market by identifying mispriced assets, determining their fair value and investing based on whether they are over- or undervalued according our analysis. By investing in this way, we are confident we will be able to deliver superior investment results relative to our peers consistently over time.

Our international affiliates are Octane - based in Zurich, Luxemborg, Johannesburg and Cape Town, and Sanlam International Investment Partners (SIIP). We also have a dedicated presence in Namibia through our subsidiary Sanlam Investment Management Namibia (Pty) Limited and in Botswana, Kenya, Zambia, Nigeria and India through SIM Emerging Markets.