Prieur du Plessis in the spotlight
Source: http://www.investmentpostcards.com/2009/09/02/prieur-du-plessis-in-the-spotlight/Posted on Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 | In Market Commentary
I have just been interviewed by a South African financial magazine, FinWeek. The result is published below and tells you a bit more about the person behind the Investment Postcards blog.
Veteran investment professional – and chairman of the Plexus group of companies – Prieur du Plessis could be considered a workaholic. He’s probably not, making time for other activities. But that’s the impression you get. For example, he has no problem agreeing to a 7am interview. “I’m an early riser. It’s already late in the day for me,” he quips as he shrugs off the apology for the early morning call.
Du Plessis is well known in the industry through prolific writing on investment matters and more recently his international investment blog: Investment Postcards from Cape Town. He also pioneered a number of unit trust performance rankings.
But the latest development in his extensive career is being appointed Honorary Consul of Slovenia for South Africa. Diplomacy seems far removed from running what’s essentially a specialist investment group, but Du Plessis says it’s not that different from what he does at Plexus: finding and making strategic partnerships overseas.
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 About Prieur du Plessis (http://www.investmentpostcards.com)
Prieur du Plessis has 25 years’ experience in professional investment research and portfolio management. More than 1,000 of his articles on investment-related topics have been published in various regular newspaper, journal and Internet columns. He has also published a book, Financial Basics: Investment. Prieur is chief executive and principal shareholder of South African-based Plexus Asset Management, which he founded in 1995. The group conducts investment management, investment consulting, private equity and real estate activities in South Africa and other African countries. Plexus is the South African partner of John Mauldin, author of the Thoughts from the Frontline e-letter, and also has an exclusive licensing agreement with California-based Research Affiliates for managing and distributing its enhanced Fundamental IndexTM methodology in the Pan-African area. Prieur is 52 years old and lives with his wife, television producer and presenter Isabel Verwey, and two children in Cape Town, South Africa. His recreational activities include long-distance running, motor cycling, traveling and reading. |
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