Senior Advisor

Magda is a Senior Advisor and is based in South Africa and the United Kingdom. She currently serves as the Executive Chairperson of publicly traded Sygnia Limited, the second largest multi-management company in South Africa and one of the largest index-tracking managers in the country. Magda is also a founder of venture capital firm, Braavos Investment Advisers.

Magda started her career as a product development and investments actuary at Southern Life, where she designed and managed index-tracking funds. This was followed by two years at Alexander Forbes as an investment consultant, until she joined Coronation Fund Managers as a director and the Head of Institutional Business. During the six years at Coronation she grew the institutional assets under management of the company fivefold. Magda left Coronation in 2003 to start IQvest, a fund of hedge funds company which was sold to the African Harvest group and appointed CEO of African Harvest. Magda then negotiated the sale of African Harvest Fund Managers to Cadiz Financial Services and led the management buy-out of the remainder of the African Harvest group that led to the formation of Sygnia where she was CEO until stepping in 2021.

Magda has been a guest lecturer at the Business School at Columbia University and sits on several advisory boards in the United States. She also qualified as a Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries (Edinburgh).