Nolan read for his MCom degree from the University of the Witwatersrand and is a CA(SA). He gained fixed income experience during his seven years at Rand Merchant Bank and six years at Deutsche Bank. After the great financial crises, he was appointed to head the Deutsche Bank European Structured Credit Finance trading desk with assets under management in excess of $3 billion. Following the orderly restructuring and exit of these problem assets, he was appointed to the New York offices where he provided risk reduction solutions to clients. He was successful in managing the fixed income portfolios at Efficient Select, with the fund being a regular feature of the top quartile of performers on most meaningful time periods.

Anchor BCI Global Flexible Income Fund is a global flexible income portfolio with the objective to achieve a higher return than US dollar term bank deposits. Investments to be acquired for the portfolio may include equity securities, property securities, property related securities, interest bearing securities and instruments, non-equity securities, money market instruments, preference shares and assets in liquid form.
The portfolio may also invest in participatory interests and other forms of participation in portfolios of collective investment schemes, registered in South Africa and other similar schemes operated in territories with a regulatory environment which is to the satisfaction of the manager and trustee of a sufficient standard to provide investor protection at least equivalent to that in South Africa and which is consistent with the portfolio's primary objective. The portfolio's maximum equity exposure will be limited to 10% of the portfolio's net asset value.
The portfolio may from time to time invest in listed and unlisted financial instruments, in accordance with the provisions of the Act, and the Regulations thereto, as amended from time to time, in order to achieve the portfolio's investment objective. The manager may only include the following unlisted financial instruments for efficient portfolio management purposes: forward currency, interest rate and exchange rate swap transactions.
The Trustee shall ensure that the investment policy set out in this Supplemental Deed is carried out. For the purpose of this portfolio, the manager shall reserve the right to close the portfolio to new investors on a date determined by the manager. This will be done in order to be able to manage the portfolio in accordance with its mandate. The manager may, once a portfolio has been closed, open that portfolio again to new investors on a date determined by the manager.