Smart Money – Ninety One’s Trinisha Chanka discusses their entry into the ETF market

In this Smart Money with Alishia Seckam interview, Ninety One Sales Manager Trinisha Chanka discusses the fund manager’s entry into the ETF market.

Chanka is a sales manager in the Retail Distribution team within Ninety One’s South African funds team.

In this role, she manages key discretionary funds and oversees Ninety One’s Active Managed ETF strategy in South Africa.

Chanka has over two decades of experience in the investing industry, having joined Ninety One’s Product Development department in 2004 after graduating from the University of Witwatersrand with a BSc Honours in Actuarial Science.

She went on to do an Investment Fellowship at the Institute of Actuaries in the UK, which she completed in 2007.

In 2011, Chanka joined Absa Capital as an associate principal, where she led the development of first-of-their-kind ETF products.

She later took a position as Head of Post-Retirement Distribution at Liberty Corporate, before joining Colourfield Liability Solution as Head of Defined Contribution Solutions in 2017.

In 2025, Chanka re-joined Ninety One as a Sales Manager and the Actively Managed ETF Strategy Lead.

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In this interview, Chanka talks about Ninety One’s entry into the ETF market with two Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Funds (AMETFs) on the JSE.

She explains what makes now a good time for the well-known asset manager to enter the ETF market, and highlights the most interesting trends in the global industry.

Chanka then unpacks several interesting details about Ninety One’s two AMETFs, and also explains how these actively managed ETFs differ from traditional passive ETFs.

Watch the full interview with Trinisha Chanka from Ninety One, below.