Ninety One has announced the appointment of Debra Slabber as the new client director and Quaniet Richards as head of corporate business, both set to join the firm by the end of the year.
Debra Slabber will transition to Ninety One from Morningstar, starting on 1 December. Quaniet Richards will make the move from Nedgroup Investments and is expected to begin on 3 November. Both will report to Natalie Phillips, the deputy managing director of Ninety One’s Africa client group.
Slabber brings over five years of experience from Morningstar, where she started in the business development team. Her departure follows that of Victoria Reuvers, who left Morningstar Investment Management South Africa in January to become managing director of WealthStrat and a board member at Chartered Wealth Group in April.
Richards is not entirely new to Ninety One; earlier in his career, he served as the marketing director of Investec Asset Management from 2005 to 2014, before the company rebranded to Ninety One. Most recently, he has been the head of institutional business at Nedgroup Investments for over seven years and led the cash division in the past year and a half.