Creating, nurturing and sustaining generational growth

Francis Wheeler began his career in employee benefit investment consulting for the Liberty Group where he provided investment advice to the nationwide distribution division. In 2006, he joined RMB Asset Management and was responsible for client relations and business development. During this time he cultivated many strong relationships with both institutional and retail clients, with a specific focus on hedge funds and fixed interest products. Francis joined Fairtree in 2014 and is responsible for institutional business development.

Herman Sandrock started his career as a pension and investment consultant in Cape Town and Johannesburg before moving to Sanlam Life’s specialist solutions team. In 2005, Herman moved to the UK with a brief to develop a product strategy for the newly acquired Sanlam business in the UK. During his time in UK, Herman held various executive roles including Head of Sales and Marketing and executive director of Sanlam Private Wealth. Herman returned to SA at the end of 2013 and joined Sanlam Glacier with the responsibility to explore a number of strategic initiatives including reviewing Glacier International’s administration strategy and impact of SA’s retirement reform. Herman is a qualified actuary.

Anne-Marie Gous started her career in financial services in 2003, when she joined Sanlam.  She later joined Glacier by Sanlam as Business Development Manager.  She has always been driven to develop and manage relationships between a company and its target audience.  Anne-Marie joined Fairtree in 2016 as Business Development Consultant.  She holds an MBA from the University of Stellenbosch.

Jacobus Lacock joined Fairtree in 2011 where he is a fixed income portfolio manager. He co-manages the alternative fixed income strategy with Ian Millard. Prior to joining the fixed income team in 2016, Jacobus was co-portfolio manager on the multi strategy team responsible for capital and asset allocation across strategies. Prior to Fairtree, Jacobus spend 5 years at Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) in London where he was the UK head of fixed income and currency product management. At GSAM Jacobus built and monitored global and emerging market interest rate solutions. Jacobus Lacock is a CFA charterholder and has a B Comm (Hons) degree in Economics at the University of Stellenbosch.