Taquanta
Maps in Johannesburg

Taquanta Investment Holdings consist of Fixed Income and Quants Asset Managers, Treasury Solutions and Securities in South Africa.

Taquanta Investment Holdings is a black-owned financial services group that’s changing the face of the financial services space. Taquanta is a financial services company for the future. We are an innovative leader, breaking out of the sector’s homogeneous mould and harnessing the collective energy, experience and expertise of our people to produce ground-breaking solutions that offer more flexibility and innovation; more collaboration and certainty; and more value. An experienced operation with proven solutions and a passion for innovation. A black-owned company with a deep commitment to broad-based empowerment. A financial services company that delivers quantifiable certainty with adaptable flair. A company that is blurring the rigid lines between financial silos to deliver innovative solutions. Various rationalisations and restructurings thereafter led to the emergence of Nedbank Treasury Asset Management, Nedcor Treasury Management Services and NIB Securities. The acquisition of TIH was partially vendor financed. To continuously expand our reach through developing and managing innovative financial solutions that keep us ahead of the market. To be South Africa's pre-eminent black-owned financial services firm, driven by unrivalled innovation and collaboration and enabled by exceptional people who are energised, co-operative and spontaneous. Dr Maphai joined the private sector in 1998 after an academic career spanning more than two decades. He taught locally at the Universities of Transkei, Witwatersrand, Western Cape, Cape Town and Pretoria. He also participated in the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School. Justin holds a B Econ degree from Rhodes University where he majored in Economics and Industrial Psychology. He began his career in 1995 as a bank credit analyst with IBCA (formerly Republic Ratings) before joining Frankel Pollack Securities in 1996 where he worked as a Banking Analyst and later headed up in the financial research team before joining SG Securities’ institutional trading desk as Head of EMEA equity sales. In 2001 Justin moved to Nedbank Limited to head up the bank’s portfolio of IT investments representing the bank on various boards both locally and internationally. When Taquanta left the Nedbank fold, Justin chose to take up a permanent role in Taquanta as the CEO. For the past 26 years she has been actively involved in advancing mainstreaming disability in South Africa, on the African Continent and Internationally; whilst being actively involved in business development to enable economic empowerment of marginalised and vulnerable groups in South Africa. He later moved to Nedbank’s central Mergers and Acquisitions division where he was involved in the Bank’s disposal of assets deemed to be non-core to its strategy as well as advisory work for divisions within Nedbank. Taquanta was one such investment where advisory work had been provided and when Taquanta moved out of the Nedbank fold, given its exciting prospects, Greg chose to move to Taquanta as its CFO. Born in Port Elizabeth, Steve completed his high school education at Wynberg Boys High in Cape Town before going on to obtain a FCIS and Honours degree in Treasury Management from Unisa. Born and raised in the picturesque village of Haenertsburg in the Magoebaskloof area of Limpopo Province, Peer completed his schooling at St Albans in Pretoria before moving to Cape Town to obtain a B.Comm. After completing his articles at Ernst and Young, and spending a few years in the clothing industry, Peer decided accountancy was not for him and he entered the stockbroking fraternity in 1987.