About
A unique investment management model in South Africa.
IMG launched a multi-affiliate investment management model in 2015, the first of its kind in South Africa.
Our aim is to identify and partner the best independent investment talent in South Africa by becoming a supportive, non-interfering and long-term shareholder in their businesses.
Our aim is to identify and partner the best independent investment talent in South Africa by becoming a supportive, non-interfering and long-term shareholder in their businesses.
Partnership
IMG seeks to identify long-term strategic partnerships with talented and principled investment management teams committed to transforming the investment industry. By acting as an influential, value-adding shareholder in these boutique firms, IMG aims to build a portfolio of enduring businesses. Core partnership values are entrenched through active and insightful strategic dialogue, dependence on independence, and alignment through incentivisation.
Support
IMG acts as a supportive, non-interfering shareholder, respecting our affiliates' autonomy and decision-making authority. It is key to our business model that affiliates retain their independence, particularly regarding their investment capabilities. We, together with the affiliate teams, share in the economic success of their businesses.
Strategic shareholder
IMG is unwavering in its commitment to providing comprehensive support to its affiliates. This includes strategic, financial, and managerial assistance, creating an environment that fosters stability, sustainability, and predictability. As shareholders, we focus on governance, capital allocation decisions, strategic positioning, and serving as a consistent sounding board for our affiliate management teams. Our support is designed to empower our partners and instil confidence in their decision-making.
What we stand for
Partnership
We partner with best-in-class asset managers throughout market cycles.
Culture
We promote an entrepreneurial
partnership culture.
partnership culture.
Products
Simple and focused product range.
Distribution
Open architecture distribution.
Client centricity
Ensuring the client’s goals, objectives and needs always come first.
Investment
Sustained investment excellence.
Capital
Permanent and patient capital.
Shareholders
We are engaged and supportive without interfering.
Empowerment
Play a meaningful role in transforming the investment management industry.
Our value proposition
Nearly 40% of investment management firms established between 1990 and 2013 failed in their first five years, resulting in acquisition, merger, or closure.
(Reasons for failure)
Lack of steadfast shareholder support
Poor business models
Lack of differentiation
Poor investment returns
To address this, we partner with independent investment management teams in South Africa by becoming strategic shareholders and assisting them in taking their businesses to the next level.
How do we do this?
We assist our affiliates address the challenges independent investment managers face by providing strategic support in the following areas.
Brand association and empowerment credentials
Business acumen and strategic insight from executive team and board
Providing patient and permanent capital
Operational and governance support
Economies of scale
Asset raising and marketing support
IMG is strategically positioned to help affiliates solve for distribution and empowerment through our shareholders, Momentum Metropolitan and Royal Bafokeng Holdings.
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The Kaleido
The IMG icon visually represents our philosophical approach as a strategic shareholder. Inspiration was drawn from a kaleidoscope's contained yet multifaceted images and limitless choice of creative interpretation.
The meticulously crafted open-ended yet closed circular icon signifies completeness.
It describes IMG’s ethos of enabling its portfolio companies to operate empowered, independent, owner-managed entities within a partnership construct, in which IMG acts as a shareholder of influence.
The outer circumference represents IMG’s holistic approach to portfolio management.
This approach encompasses financial performance, operational excellence, and the longevity of the business model.
The open spaces denote the freedom and opportunity of the management partners to run their businesses without interference.
The overlaps speak to active endeavours to identify areas of selective cooperation and collective engagement.
The core embodies the proud history, values, culture, and common attributes that bind
the IMG portfolio.
