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Mr.Ignatius Michael Viljoen - Profile

Sri Ignatius Michael Viljoen (holding Director Identification Number – 08452443) joined Sanlam Capital Markets in 2003 as a senior credit analyst and was subsequently appointed as a South Africa-focused credit portfolio manager, a position he held from 2008 to 2013. He was involved in the management of Sanlam Capital Markets’ Africa (excluding South Africa) credit portfolio from 2013, a role which included the establishment of Sanlam Africa Credit Investments Limited, a Mauritius-domiciled corporate loan fund focusing on providing loans to corporates and financial institutions, operating in Sub Saharan Africa. He is the senior portfolio manager and a director at Sanlam Credit Fund Advisor Proprietary Limited. He served as a member of the Sanlam Capital Markets Sub-Cred Committee, a management sub-committee of the Sanlam Group’s Central Credit Committee, from December 2010 to June 2016. In 2019 he was appointed as the credit portfolio manager at Sanlam Pan Africa Portfolio Management. He is a member of the Botswana Insurance Fund Management Limited Credit Committee. Prior to joining Sanlam he was employed at ABSA Bank and the Standard Bank of South Africa. He has a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of the Free State in South Africa. He serves on the Boards of Sanlam Credit Fund Advisor Proprietary Ltd and Shriram Transport Finance Company Ltd.