Chief Executive Officer
Brandon Quinn, B.Com, CFA, is a co‑founder and portfolio manager at Saffron Wealth, with over 27 years of investment experience.
He graduated with a BCom (Economics) in 1992 and holds a CFA Charter since 2003. Brandon's investment experience covers Developed, Emerging and Frontier Markets across fixed income, currency, structured credit and equity asset classes.
Brandon’s financial services career started in 1993 in market research at NBS Corporate Bank at which time he completed an advanced diploma in bank credit management. Following the merger between NBS Bank and BoE Bank, he joined BoE Bank Treasury in 1996, where he focused on currency dealing and interest rate arbitrage.
From 2000 to 2003 Brandon managed the market risk of BoE Treasury, BoE Securities and the BoE Hedge Funds while completing his CFA. In 2003 Brandon was appointed Global Treasurer of Seaboard Overseas Limited (SOL), a NYSE listed multi-national commodity trading company. At SOL Brandon took overall responsibility for the group’s funding and commodity hedging strategies using CBOT options and futures. In 2005 Brandon was appointed as portfolio manager at Metropolitan Asset Managers, responsible for Liability Driven Investments of the Guaranteed Annuities products and launched the Metropolitan Income Plus Fund, now the Saffron Opportunity Income Fund.
In 2012, Brandon co-founded Saffron Wealth (Pty)Ltd, a hedge fund investment manager located in Stellenbosch from where it operates today. Saffron has extensive track records in both onshore and offshore income, bond equity and frontier markets, receiving multiple Raging Bull awards over the years.Saffron manages assets in the Saffron BCI Opportunity Income Fund, The Saffron BCI Active Bond Fund, The Saffron Flexible Fund and The Saffron Global Enhanced Income Fund (USD).