{"id":846359,"date":"2025-12-12T11:33:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=846359"},"modified":"2025-12-12T11:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:33:19","slug":"ceo-of-r290-billion-investment-giant-resigns-to-study-for-a-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/846359\/ceo-of-r290-billion-investment-giant-resigns-to-study-for-a-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO of R290 billion investment giant resigns to study for a PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fikile Mbhokota has resigned as the CEO of Satrix to pursue her PhD studies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mbhokota has led the company since 2022, having joined as CEO after nearly two decades in the investment industry.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Satrix has R290 billion in assets under management and offers a host of passive investment strategies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mbhokota holds a Master\u2019s Degree in Finance and completed programmes at the Institute for Limited Partners and the World Bank in the USA.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has been pursuing a PhD in Finance and Investments from Wits Business School. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mbhokota&#8217;s notice of resignation applies to all her roles and responsibilities within Satrix and is effective from 31 January 2026.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Satrix board of directors has accepted her resignation and expressed appreciation for her service and commitment over the last three years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company has wished her well in her future endeavours, with the board set to announce a replacement in due course.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having grown up in Limpopo, she went on to work at Riscura, RMB Asset Management, Absa and the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-businesstech wp-block-embed-businesstech\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"aUMzBt4hu4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/835571\/the-woman-who-went-from-retail-sales-clerk-to-running-a-r260-billion-investment-giant-in-south-africa\/\">The woman who went from retail sales clerk to running a R260 billion investment giant in South Africa<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;The woman who went from retail sales clerk to running a R260 billion investment giant in South Africa&#8221; &#8212; BusinessTech\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/835571\/the-woman-who-went-from-retail-sales-clerk-to-running-a-r260-billion-investment-giant-in-south-africa\/embed\/#?secret=brrI1MkS6i#?secret=aUMzBt4hu4\" data-secret=\"aUMzBt4hu4\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fikile Mbhokota is leaving her role at Satrix in January 2026 and she heads back to school. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":835572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[15748],"class_list":["post-846359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-satrix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846359"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846366,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846359\/revisions\/846366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}