Visio Fund Management

Visio is an investment management firm founded in 2003. The nimble, highly focused and dynamic team manage assets across listed strategies for a diversified client base that includes some of the world’s largest and most sophisticated investors. Visio is based in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa and has a research presence in London, UK. The firm manages circa R35 billion on behalf of third party clients (pension funds, family offices, sovereign wealth funds and retail investors). Since 2004 Visio has diversified its product offering across long-only equities, multi-asset, global, fixed income and property. Visio is a Level 1 B-BBEE contributor. The firm was founded as in 2003 as Visio Capital Management( “VCM”). In 2014 , Visio Fund Management( “VFM”) was created as a wholly-owned subsidiary of VCM. It was created as an operating company to house local long-only equity mandates. VFM sold a minority investment to a strategic partner, Royal Investment Managers (“RIM”) in April 2019. Amongst one the objectives was to improve its diversity ownership (Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment). RIM is a joint venture between Royal Bafokeng Holdings and RMI Investment Managers Group (a subsidiary of Rand Merchant Investments Holdings). Visio has grown from an equity hedge fund manager and owes its heritage and DNA to these alternative strategies but has over the years evolved into a diversified investment business. The firm that manages products on behalf of its clients across different strategies namely, long only equity funds (local and Africa), multi-asset strategies including both flexible and high equity balanced funds (domestic and global), fixed income fund ( an unconstrained bond fund and vanilla bond fund), property and Shari’ah Equity. The firm’s alternative investment mandates consist of equity long/short hedge funds (ZAR & USD).