FINANCIAL ADVISORS
GIG offers selective transaction advisory and capital-raising support to financial advisors, wealth managers, and consulting professionals whose clients seek exposure to Southern African mid-market corporates and African infrastructure opportunities. We do not position ourselves as a product provider or discretionary asset manager for advisor clients. Instead, we serve as an origination partner that surfaces structured private-credit and infrastructure transactions in which advisors’ clients may co-invest alongside GIG’s own capital.
Our engagement is limited to mandates between US$1million and US$5 billion that meet three strict criteria: credible counterparty, attractive risk-adjusted economics, and contribution to our institutional track record. Every opportunity is underwritten by Artelligence, our proprietary risk and capital analytics platform calibrated to African market conditions. This internal capability provides advisors and their clients with analytical depth in credit-risk modelling, capital-stack optimisation, and transaction structuring that generic platforms cannot replicate.
HOW WE WORK WITH ADVISORS
We collaborate with advisors on a principal-to-principal basis. When an advisory mandate originates a suitable transaction, GIG structures the deal, commits its own balance sheet first, and offers transparent syndication to aligned institutional and high-net-worth clients introduced by the advisor. Advisors benefit from:
- Access to pre-vetted, Artelligence-modelled private-credit and infrastructure opportunities not available through standard channels.
- Co-investment participation on the same terms as GIG, with clear retention of origination economics by GIG and proportional risk syndication.
- Institutional-grade transaction documentation, financial modelling, and risk reporting that strengthen the advisor’s client proposition.
- Visibility into GIG’s broader institutional build, allowing advisors to present their clients with a relationship that extends beyond a single transaction into a long-term capital platform.
We are highly selective. We accept only those advisor-introduced mandates that align with our current focus on South African mid-market corporates and infrastructure developers in energy, transport, and telecommunications. This discipline ensures that every transaction enhances both client outcomes and GIG’s progression from advisory through private credit toward full banking capabilities.
VAUE TO ADVISORS AND THEIR CLIENTS
Advisors working with GIG gain a differentiated offering: direct access to African infrastructure and private-credit transactions backed by GIG’s own capital commitment and proprietary analytics. Clients receive exposure to secured, structured lending with typical 12–18 month tenors or long-duration infrastructure assets with inflation-linked characteristics—opportunities that complement traditional portfolios while maintaining rigorous risk-adjusted discipline. The relationship is not one of outsourcing investment management. It is a partnership in origination and syndication. Advisors retain their client stewardship role; GIG provides the principal capital, structuring expertise, and analytical backbone.