Manas Majakwane Bapela

Dr. Manas M.
Bapela is a Chief Executive Officer at Argon Asset Management (Pty) Ltd.
He has over 25 years of relevant industry experience including lecturing, investment analysis, and portfolio management across the asset class spectrum, including derivatives.
He has multi organizational experience at leading firms such as Standard Corporate Merchant Bank (where he helped develop analytical tools to strip real zero curves from CPI-linked bonds, pricing of CPI linked swaps and CPI linked annuities) and most recently at Taquanta Asset Managers.
In addition, Dr. Bapela is also a published contributor to mathematics journals, a regular industry conference presenter and a member of the investment committee of the IRF (Institute of Retirement Funds).
Dr. Bapela holds a MSc in Mathematics (cum laude) and PhD in Mathematics from University of Pretoria.
He finished Global Investment Risk Management Programme from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.