Sean Neethling

Mr. Sean Neethling is a Co-Founder, Director & Portfolio Manager at Perspective Investment Management (Pty) Ltd.
He has over 17 years of relevant industry experience across listed and unlisted credit and fixed income markets.
He is also a shareholder of our firm and provides a healthy dose of scepticism, candour and uncommon sense to the firm’s investment team.
Mr. Neethling began his career in the banking division of the FirstRand Group in 2003 as a credit analyst covering unlisted middle market companies in South Africa.
His responsibilities were broadened to managing a portfolio of distressed credit and special situations, and in 2008 he moved to the group’s boutique leveraged finance team where he focused on mergers and acquisitions, management buyouts and turnarounds.
In 2011, he was contracted to the investment and wealth management business of Absa where he consulted to executive and private banking clients.
He joined Regarding Capital Management as a credit analyst and portfolio manager in 2012 with dedicated research responsibilities in credit, fixed income, currency, convertibles and preference shares.
He co-founded Perspective after spending a year as an investment analyst and portfolio manager at Sanlam Investment Management.
Mr. Neethling holds undergraduate degrees in Economics and Information Systems as well as postgraduate Finance Honours and Masters’ degrees from the University of Cape Town (UCT).