Christian Roelofse Email & Phone Number

Netherlands

I head up Sango's Portfolio Solutions Group - focused on Private Equity funds in Africa.

• Trustee & Investment Committee chair of $2.5bn DC (umbrella) pension fund.
• Investment Committee member of $2bn real estate portfolio.
• Various Advisory Committees and board seats of investees.

Netherlands

Head of FMO’s Funds & Co-Investments teams, including FMO’s Fund Solutions for tail-end funds.

The Hague Area, Netherlands

• Private equity fund and co-investments.
• Serving on various Advisory Committees and managing fund manager relationships.
• Specialist in impact investments, fund restructurings, secondaries and PCV’s.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Developed and managed a USD600m alternative assets fund-of-funds.
• The portfolio invested across a range of non-traditional assets such as private equity,private real estate, infrastructure, hedge funds and others.
• Primary and secondary fund investments.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• I headed-up Liberty’s balance sheet optimisation initiatives which seek to increase the equity value of Liberty Holdings by finding more efficient ways of:
• Setting strategy (e.g. selecting ventures, deploying capital, strategic investments), and
• Executing strategy (e.g. risk budgeting, structuring and performance measurement).This steered the business toward decisions that span across business lines and geographies, and that maximise group value on a.

• I managed the Liberty’s shareholder investment portfolio (SIP) worth circa USD2bn. This included:
• Setting the long term asset allocation to maximise capital efficiency
• Proposing and implementing new asset classes (we introduced hedge funds, infrastructure, African property, agriculture and equity protection strategies using derivatives)
• Selecting, mandating and monitoring managers
• Enhancing management and monitoring processes

London, United Kingdom

• Lead consultant to defined benefit pension schemes (£10m to £100m) and secondary consultant on more sophisticated clients (£300m to £1.5bn). The process followed was to identify unique needs (risk and return) which.
• Researching and selecting asset managers with a specific focus on equity, bond, cash and multi-asset portfolio managers that covers a variety of "alternative" asset classes.
• Coordinating team projects and mentoring junior staff
• Member of the task team that developed an ‘implemented consulting’ business and portfolio

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Product Development, including a Liability Driven Investment solution, Portable Alpha, Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) and Lifestage products for Defined Contribution pension savings. Asset Liability Modelling on Sanlam’s policyholder investment RangeDesigning tailor made investment strategies for the Sanlam shareholder capital, pension funds and.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Researched and recommended emerging market listed equities. Built and maintained screening and portfolio construction tools.

Cfa Charterholder, Investment

Activities and Societies: Received my CFA Charter in 2007

Mba, Business, Cum Laude

Cfp, Investment

Bsc, Actuarial

Activities and Societies: Sonop, Tuks Tennis

Investment Management Certificate (Imc), Investment