Herman Steyn
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- Full Name
- Herman Steyn
- Title
- Executive Director
- Firm
- Prescient
- Firm Type
- Financial services / investment management
- Sector Focus
- Systematic investment management, portfolio and risk management, collective investment schemes, institutional mandates, infrastructure and credit capabilities
- Geographic Focus
- South Africa, Europe, Asia
- Location
- Prescient lists offices in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Stellenbosch, Dublin, London, Jersey, and Shanghai; Herman Steyn is listed on Prescient leadership boards, including Prescient Holdings and Prescient Fund Services Ireland.
Background
Herman Steyn is an Executive Director at Prescient, a multinational financial services group whose services span investment management, stockbroking, investment and platform administration, and retirement and employee-benefit solutions. Prescient’s public people page lists him repeatedly across group leadership teams, including Prescient Holdings, Prescient Investment Management, Prescient Fund Services, Prescient Fund Services Ireland, and Prescient China.
Prescient Investment Management was founded on 1 September 1998 as an active, systematic, independent investment management company specialising in portfolio and risk management. The firm reports R162 billion in assets under management as of 30 September 2025, more than 500 million data points processed daily, and operations serving advisers, individual investors, institutional investors, trustees, retirement funds, and businesses.
The supplied stub describes Steyn as an “Angel Investor” investing at seed stage, but I could not verify public evidence of personal angel or seed investments, a personal investment thesis, check size, or startup portfolio. The verifiable public record positions him as an executive director within Prescient rather than as a publicly documented angel investor.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Prescient Investment Management describes its investment philosophy as “systematic, data-driven and focused on managing risk.”
- The firm says its approach is “systematic, data-driven and evidence-based,” using statistically verifiable facts so decisions are rational and rules driven.
- Prescient says its process is rooted in science and applies a statistical model intended to deliver above-benchmark returns across market conditions.
- The firm offers local and offshore collective investment schemes for advisers and individual investors, with access starting at R1,000 per month or R10,000 once-off.
- For institutional investors, Prescient offers discretionary segregated mandates for clients investing R100 million or more.
- Prescient states that sustainability is integrated into its systematic process and that Prescient Investment Management is a signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment and has pledged to CRISA.
Notable Investments
- No verified public personal angel or seed investments for Herman Steyn were found.
- Prescient Income Provider Fund — income-producing fund focused on downside-risk management and inflation protection.
- Prescient Income Plus Fund — high-yield credit exposure with inflation protection.
- Prescient Flexible Bond Fund — systematic exposure to local bonds, enhanced with yield assets.
- Prescient Defensive Fund — conservative multi-asset allocation including equities and offshore assets.
- Prescient Balanced Fund — long-term retirement-oriented fund with aggressive allocation to mostly equities and offshore assets.
- Prescient Equity Fund — long-term savings fund aiming to outperform peers.
- Prescient Global Income Provider Fund — offshore income-producing fund with downside-risk management and inflation protection.
- Prescient Global Balanced Fund — offshore balanced strategy.
- Prescient Core Global Equity Fund — global equity exposure for long-term savings.
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