ABOUT US

Fifth Quadrant employs some 72 staff, including 15 actuaries, with offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town. The Chairperson of the company is Mr Rustum Omar, and the Managing Director is Mr Antony Lester.

We are a professional services company, rather than a financial services company. Our core business is to provide Independent, high quality advice to our institutional clients, which include retirement funds, medical schemes, charitable trusts and corporate and public sector clients.

Fifth Quadrant is independent of any Investment manager, Insurance company, or medical scheme. We are an owner-managed business, and we believe this is the best way to ensure that we will always put our clients’ interest first.

In June 2008, a 20 per cent stake in Fifth Quadrant was acquired by Towers Watson, a leading global consulting firm. In March 2011, Towers Watson increased its shareholding to 40 per cent, and has agreed to increase this shareholding to in excess of 50 per cent within the next year. We believe this will significantly enhance the services we are able to provide to our clients. In line with its increased shareholding the firm has appointed Nigel Biggs as managing consultant of the Towers Watson / Fifth Quadrant operations in southern Africa.

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