Werner is an emerging market portfolio manager with responsibility for Former CIS, Mddle-East and Africa. He moved to London from South Africa where he was a fixed income quantitative analyst and managed Investec Asset Management Assets and Liabilities matching book. Werner joined the company in October 2003 as a graduate. Prior to Investec Asset Management, Werner played professional rugby in concurrence with academic programmes. Werner holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Insurance Science) degree from the University of Pretoria, a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree in Financial Economics from the University of Stellenbosch and a Master of Science degree in Applied Statistics from Oxford University. In addition, Werner obtained the Society of Technical Analysts diploma and was awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation from the CFA Institute in 2006.