Garreth E. Elston

Garreth is a property investment professional, with 19 years of South African and international investment experience. He has served as the portfolio manager of South African and Global unit trust portfolios, proprietary funds, Hedge Funds, and private equity property portfolios.

Winner of the Raging Bull Award in 2020 and 2021 for Best Global Real Estate Fund Risk-Adjusted Performance over Five Years as well as 2021 Best Offshore Global Real Estate General Fund over Three Years. Also nominated as Fund Manager of the Year for 2021 in the Global Properties Securities category by Money Management Australia. Nominated as HedgeNews Africa Hedge Fund of the Year in Specialist Strategies in 2021. Funds previously managed were rated 5-Stars by Morningstar on a global basis, and Garreth achieved a Citywire AA Manager rating.

He previously served as the Deputy Chair of the Investment Analysts Society of Southern Africa (IASSA); Chair of the Corporate Finance and Corporate Presentations committees of the CFA Society Toronto; and was the Southern African representative on the International Council of Investment Associations.

Garreth holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, an MA in International Relations, and a BCom in Banking Management. He also studied Venture Capital and Private Equity as an elective at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA Anderson School). In addition to completing the Canadian Securities Course, the Partners Directors and Senior Officers Course, he is a Certified Associate of the Institute of Bankers in South Africa, a Fellow of the Institute of Financial Markets, and is a Chartered Member (MRICS) of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He has also completed the FSCA RE1, RE3, and RE5 regulatory examinations in categories I II IIA III and IV.