Isabella Mnisi 2021 Speaker

Sector Head: Asset Management and Funds

Rand Merchant Bank

Biography

Isabella Mnisi is the Sector Head for Asset Management and Funds at Rand Merchant Bank with 20 years’ experience in the investment banking and investment management industry. She has spent the last six years with Ashburton Investments where she was instrumental in establishing the Ashburton Investments’ unlisted assets business and was a member of the Ashburton Exco, Private Equity Fund Investment Committee and Private Markets Governance & Valuations Committees. During her time at Ashburton, Isabella has held the roles of Chief Investment Officer for Private Markets, Head of Investment Governance and Sustainable Investing and Head of Product Development for unlisted assets.

Prior to joining Ashburton Investments, Isabella worked for RMB, Absa Capital and DBSA specialising in fields including Credit Analysis, Investment Analysis, Structured Finance, Project Finance, Debt Capital Markets, Investment Banking Coverage and Interest Rates Derivatives and Structuring.

Isabella is a CFA Charterholder and also holds a BSc degree in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics and BSc (Hons) degree in Advanced Mathematics of Finance from the University of the Witwatersrand and a Masters in Commerce from the University of Johannesburg.