Sumesh is a portfolio manager at Ninety One within our Quality team. He has responsibility for our absolute return strategies and is co-portfolio manager of the Cautious Managed Strategy and the Absolute Balanced Strategy. He joined the firm in 2007 from Metropolitan Asset Managers where he managed the Metropolitan Absolute Return Fund from 2005. Before joining Metropolitan, Sumesh spent three years as an investment actuary at Metropolitan Employee Benefits, where he was responsible for managing smooth bonus funds. Sumesh began his career at Swiss Re Life & Health, where he spent over three years as an actuarial specialist. Sumesh graduated from the University of Cape Town with a Bachelor of Business Science (Hons) degree in Actuarial Science and a postgraduate diploma in Actuarial Science. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in the United Kingdom and a Fellow of the Actuarial Society of South Africa.