Prudential is becoming
M&G Investments

Brief background

Following London-listed M&G's strategic decision in 2019 to expand its global investment management presence, it was a logical step forward for them to seek closer ties with Prudential Southern Africa. They have now added Southern Africa to their existing centres of investment expertise based in London, Paris, Singapore and Chicago.

M&G and Prudential share a similar fundamental and valuation-based active investment process. In fact, our close collaboration, specifically in areas like global asset allocation, has already benefitted our clients for many years.

Read our detailed Q&A

What will be changing?

Our name change to M&G Investments will involve:

• Changing our company names throughout the Prudential Southern Africa group, including subsidiaries in Namibia. For example, our main investment management company, Prudential Investment Managers (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, is being renamed MandG Investment Managers (Pty) Ltd.
• Changing the names of all our institutional investment capabilities. For example, the "Prudential Core Equity" institutional proposition will change to 'M&G Core Equity'.
• Renaming our South Africa- and Irish-domiciled unit trust funds to M&G; i.e. the "Prudential Balanced Fund" will become the 'M&G Balanced Fund'. See the full range of proposed unit trust name changes in our detailed Q&A.
• Changing our website and email domains, from prudential.co.za to mandg.co.za (in South Africa) and from prudential.com.na to mandg.com.na (in Namibia).
• Replacing Prudential's logo featuring the face of 'Lady Prudence' with the M&G Investments logo.

Going more global to benefit our clients

Our goal going forward is to further enhance our clients’ investment outcomes through the addition of more of M&G’s global expertise across different capabilities. Successful investing these days requires a global perspective and deep international experience to deliver outperformance.

Our clients will benefit from global best investment ideas and solutions that have proven to be successful, including those that may not have previously been accessible to South Africans, plus cutting-edge, technology-driven solutions. Examples span areas as diverse as:

• Machine Learning-driven funds
• Different types of sustainability- and impact-focused funds
• International private (unlisted) equity
• Investment funds targeting global listed and unlisted infrastructure and credit
• ESG-centric, positive impact and climate-focused solutions, etc.