Richard Kommel, Morne Marais, and Rob Oellermann set up Tantalum Capital in 2005, having worked together since 1997. Their flagship fund, the Tantalum MNC Fund, has achieved an annual return of 12.6% net since inception in June 2005. Tantalum has recently launched a Global Resources Fund that invests into resources equities and commodities.
In this Opalesque.TV portrait, Rob talks about his funds and the attraction of the South African market, offering:
- Access to frontier markets in Africa
- Extended opportunities in consumer markets
- Evolved financial markets
He also talks about Tantalum's investment process and background on the team's remarkable high hit ratio in their stock picks and investments.
Tantalum Capital commenced operations on 1 June 2005. The business was founded on the shared strategy of the three owners Morne Marais, Richard Kommel and Rob Oellermann as a focused investment management company, managing funds that are closely aligned with their own investment objectives.
Robert Oellermann, CA (SA), CFA, started his career in 1994 as quantitative and fundamental equity analyst at Allan Gray Limited. From 1997 until co-founding Tantalum Capital in 2005, Rob was analyst, portfolio manager and Head of Research at Coronation Fund Managers (CFM). Initially, he was co-manager and then manager of the Coronation Consumer Growth Fund. He spent eighteen months in the Dublin and London offices of CFM, analysing European equities and managing the Coronation European Growth Fund.
After his return to the Cape Town office of CFM in 2001 he was appointed as Head of Research, managed Coronation’s segregated institutional balanced portfolios and eventually direct portfolio manager for institutional equity mandates totaling R7bn.
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Richard Kommel, Morne Marais, and Rob Oellermann set up Tantalum Capital in 2005, having worked together since 1997. Their flagship fund, the Tantalum MNC Fund, has achieved an annual return of 12.6% net since inception in June 2005. Tantalum has recently launched a Global Resources Fund that invests into resources equities and commodities.
In this Opalesque.TV portrait, Rob talks about his funds and the attraction of the South African market, offering:
- Access to frontier markets in Africa
- Extended opportu
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