Andrew Vintcent, Kate Rushton and Shawn Stockigt have been appointed as Head of Research, Head of Credit Research (Fixed Income) and Small & Mid Caps Fund Manager respectively. This follows the appointment of Herman van Velze as balanced fund manager late last year.

Andrew Vintcent was previously at RMB Asset Management, where he has been for the past eleven years as a Portfolio Manager and Head of the Financial Team.

Shawn Stockigt is an acknowledged expert in the Small and Mid Cap share arena and will take over managing the STANLIB Small Cap Fund. He was previously at Sanlam, Gryphon Asset Management and Abvest Asset Management.

Prior to joining Stanlib, Kate Rushton was the Principal Corporate and Credit Analyst at ABSA Capital. Rushton has extensive experience in financial analysis in various roles including working at London-based UBS Warburg’s Investment Banking Division and more recently as Corporate and Credit Analyst at Standard Corporate and Investment Bank (SCMB). She will head up the credit process at STANLIB, with credit having become a key component of most fixed interest portfolios.