The Personality of the Year Award will be presented to Nerina Visser at the second SRP Africa Conference Awards ceremony, which will take place on the evening of Thursday March 7 at The Vineyard Hotel in Cape Town. Visser was chosen after receiving the highest number of votes from respondents to the Africa Awards Survey 2019.
Nerina Visser is an applied mathematician by training with a specialist academic background in mathematics and statistics. She has been involved in the South African financial markets for more than 20 years after starting at Old Mutual Asset Managers in 1996 and later joining Nedbank Capital in 1999 as a quantitative strategist. “Before I joined the financial industry, I worked in the defence industry as a rocket scientist,” says Visser. As such, when she talks to people about