Daniel Broby is Chief Investment Officer of Silkinvest (http://www.silkinvest.com). Silk invest is a specialist in frontier market investments. He runs a team based in London, Egypt, South Africa and Morocco. He joined Silkinvest having sold the hedge fund he founded (Danfonds Frontier Markets SPC) to the company. Prior to that he worked for Renaissance Investment Management (UK) Limited, where he was Chief Executive Officer. He held various roles and responsibilities throughout the RIM group, principally those of Chief Investment Officer, Head of Asset Management and Director of the Renaissance Africa Fund. His roles involved extensive travel to and from offices in Moscow, Kiev, Nairobi, Geneva and London. In addition to the day to day management of the group’s various investment teams, he also oversaw the successful launch of the Renaissance Africa Fund, the Global Macro Fund for RIM (UK) and the successful launch of the offshore Renaissance Russia Infrastructure Fund for RIM.
Prior to Renaissance Investment Management, he was a member of the BankInvest Investment Board and joint manager of BankInvest Basis, a flagship global product, rated five stars on Morningstar. Daniel joined Bankinvest, Denmark's third largest asset manager, as Chief Investment Officer in 2000, responsible for the investment process and the day-to-day running of the quoted equity, bond and guaranteed products. He transferred these responsibilities in July 2004 and launched Denmark’s first and only regulated hedge fund on behalf of Bankinvest in November 2005. Daniel joined the fund management industry at the end of 1985 as a trainee at Credit Suisse Buckmaster and Moore. Prior to his role at BankInvest, he was chief portfolio manager at Nordea Investment Management and prior to that head of international research at Morgan Stanley Quilter.
Daniel has an MPhil in economics and an MSc in investment analysis. He was a board member of CFA (UK) for over 10 years. He was the CFA Institute’s President Council Representative for Europe, Middle East and Africa for four years and was presented with the Institute’s Society Leader Award in 2006. He now serves as a member of the Capital Markets Policy Council. He was elected an individual member of the London Stock Exchange in 1990 and is a Fellow of the Securities Institute, a Fellow of CFA UK and a Visiting Fellow at Durham University.
