Creating the Cheat Sheet for Investing in Alternative Investments

Former Capitec CEO Gerrie Fourie tells Jacques Conradie, on Peregrine Capital's Building Conviction podcast, the story behind one of the JSE's greatest ever compounding stories.

Can you make 24? Grade 4 – 6 maths champions from 300+ schools compete in the Peregrine Capital 24SumMore national final in Johannesburg on 29 October 2026.

Ask most people what a financial advisor does and you get some version of the same answer: they pick investments. That is the visible part of the job, in the way that a prescription is the visible part of what a doctor does. The value sits in everything that happens before it.

Writing for Moneyweb, Anne Holding, an investment specialist at Peregrine Capital, sets out the roles a good advisor takes on across an investor's life. Specialist, demystifier, coach, therapist, architect. She also explains why much of that work leaves nothing to point to, because its purpose was prevention.