Paul Rensburg

Professor Paul van Rensburg MCom(cum laude) PhD, holds the Frank Robb Chair in Finance at the University of Cape Town (UCT).

Paul has won numerous academic awards (including the Economics Society’s Best PhD Award in 1997 and the IAJ best article award on two occasions), has supervised five PhDs, 18 full thesis Masters degrees and published more than thirty five peer-reviewed articles on asset pricing in local and international academic journals.

He was a full professor at age thirty.

Education

• Ph.D Finance University of KwaZulu-Natal (1989 — 1994)

Companies

• Owner and founder of Salient Quantitative Investment Management Salient Quantitative Investment Management (2006)
• Frank Robb Professor of Finance at the University of Cape Town University of Cape Town (2002)