Old Mutual Specialised Finance ("OMSFIN")

"Specialised Finance

Old Mutual Specialised Finance (OMSFIN) is a proprietary investment business and an alternatives investment manager. Through its capital market activities, OMSFIN delivers above-average, risk-adjusted returns for a predetermined level of risk to shareholders. 

OMSFIN’s two primary business areas include:

Trading and Structuring: This business is responsible for funding OMSFIN’s proprietary balance sheet activities. The team risk-manages OMSFIN’s portfolio using advanced hedging and portfolio structuring techniques, while taking advantage of any identified market anomalies. The Trading and Structuring team is also responsible for managing Old Mutual (South Africa)’s shareholder guarantees. They use interest rate and equity derivative products to hedge market risk and have been instrumental in reducing interest rate volatility while, at the same time, improving the performance and capital efficiency of the funds. Read more...

Asset Origination: This business participates in the South African capital markets – originating and managing assets for both Old Mutual (South Africa) and OMSFIN. The business operates across the structured finance continuum, offering financing in areas of structured debt, leverage, property, project and mezzanine finance. Read more ...

 http://www.oldmutual.co.za/corporate/asset-management/om-investment-group-%28sa%29/boutiques-and-units/specialised-finance.aspx

Business Partners

"Business Partners Limited is a specialist risk finance company for formal small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in South Africa, and selected African countries. The company actively supports entrepreneurial growth by providing financing, specialist sectoral knowledge and added-value services for viable small and medium businesses.

Business Finance

The core of the company’s focus is on providing finance for formal small and medium enterprises.

Business Partners Limited structures unique, individualised financing solutions. Deals are structured using equity, shareholders’ loan accounts, revenue sharing and term loans or any combination of these. Business Partners Limited has developed a range of proprietal financing models that offer entrepreneurs maximum flexibility to suit their specific needs.

Applications for finance are assessed on the viability of a business, which comprises two important elements:

• the business and
• the entrepreneur

The business evaluation includes matters such as the product or service and its market acceptability, market size, the gearing of the business, and its ability to exist and grow, as well as the business’s history, the stage of its development and medium- to long-term profit potential, technical aspects and the location of the business.

In evaluating the entrepreneur, aspects such the ability to run a successful business on sound business principles, integrity, drive, vision and appropriate experience, are considered.

Business Partners Limited considers financing applications up to R25 million in all sectors of the economy — with the exception of on-lending activities, direct farming operations, underground mining and non-profit organisations — to those formal small and medium businesses whose gross assets are under R100 million, where annual turnover does not exceed R200 million and/or employees are less than 500 in number.

Applications for financing below R500 000 are usually not considered; and the company does not operate in the informal or micro enterprise sectors..."

 

http://www.businesspartners.co.za/ 

Via Capital

"Via Capital was established with the buy-out of much of the Specialised Finance business of Imperial Bank Limited by a combination of management and empowerment interests. A majority of Via Capital’s share capital is held by its empowerment partners.

Via Capital’s management team has developed a reputation for product innovation, bridging the relative complexity of sophisticated financing products with the particular business requirements of operators in the transport sector."

http://www.viacapital.co.za/about-us/company-profile/