CoreShares is one of Africa’s leading passive investment management businesses. We specialise in index-tracking investment solutions across Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), Unit Trusts and segregated mandates (for institutions).
CoreShares has blossomed from a ‘start up’ product offering to a fully-fledged medium sized investment manager with over R10billion under management. Thanks to our strong corporate backing we have been able to invest in dynamic people and best in class systems to deliver strong financial products and outcomes.
At CoreShares we are striving to perfect a passive investment approach which is derived from studying all the evidence available and interpreting our learnings scientifically into strategies we feel certain will yield the best and most reliable returns for our clients and their clients in turn.
Furthermore, as our planet faces key environmental risks and sustainability challenges, we also continue to build our own response to these issues through an active stewardship model incorporating many key tenets of ESG.
We also understand the importance of transformation and inclusivity within South Africa – CoreShares is a level 4 BEE contributor.
We understand better than others that it is not about rands and cents alone but something far more important: that priceless sense of freedom. That in the future you should be free from worry. To do the things you’ve longed to do. To be independent. To be generous.
Providing investors with this sense of freedom is at the heart of what we do at CoreShares, and our team shares this common purpose.
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Evidenced-Based Investment (EBI) Philosophy
CoreShares has adopted an Evidence-Based Investment philosophy. Evidence-Based Investing is essentially about basing investment decisions on peer-reviewed, time-tested, academic evidence. By applying scientific methods and behavioral economics to investing, biases and gut feelings are replaced with intellectual rigour.
At CoreShares we harness the evidence underpinning:
- Asset class returns over time
- Importance of keeping costs low
- Importance of diversification
- Existence of factors or risk premia which exist particularly in the equity market.
We believe that an EBI process drives more predictable outcome for clients.

