Fund management is not a large employer, unlike mining or manufacturing or even the more labour-intensive financial services businesses such as banking and life insurance.

Nonetheless, industry clients such as pension fund trustees must do what they can to encourage BEE in the industry. Black fund managers are already highly employable people — mainly chartered accountants or at least with degrees in finance, sometimes engineers. If their shops fail, they will find jobs easily elsewhere in financial services...

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