Vuyani Ndaba

Reuters Polls Division – A global polling and analytics product used by institutional investors and trading desks.

• Served as Senior Correspondent for Reuters Polls, producing authoritative outlooks on emerging market currencies, bonds, equities, and macroeconomic trends.
• Led the production of market-moving outlook stories and thematic surveys, drawing on insights from chief economists, fund managers, central bank watchers, and senior strategists across Africa and globally.
• Worked directly with C-suite executives, heads of research, and portfolio managers, coordinating forecasts, validating data, and ensuring accuracy under tight deadlines.
• Played a key role in the monthly Emerging Market Currency Outlook, collaborating with senior colleagues in Asia and Latin America to capture global trade and capital flow dynamics.
• Deeply involved in compiling and analysing the Reuters EconoMeter, assessing long-term economic prospects and policy expectations.
• Event Management & Executive Engagement:
  Organised and hosted the annual Reuters Economist of the Year event for over a decade (up to 2017), a flagship industry event attended by senior economists, asset managers, policymakers, and executives.
  Managed end-to-end event delivery, including agenda design, speaker coordination, executive liaison, logistics, moderation, and post-event coverage.
  Led and participated in marketing roadshows and client-facing presentations, representing Reuters to institutional investors and senior decision-makers.
• Demonstrated strong editorial judgment, balancing market sensitivity, data integrity, and executive-level expectations.
• Maintained close working relationships with global editors, product teams, and senior stakeholders to align content with strategic business objectives.

• Advised JSE-listed company board members and senior executives on detailed shareholder ownership structures.
• Delivered high-level intelligence on institutional investor behaviour, supporting strategic decisions related to mergers, acquisitions, and potential hostile takeovers.
• Conducted detailed analysis of global equity ownership using industry-leading datasets, identifying control, concentration, and investment style patterns.
• Produced executive-ready reports translating complex data into clear, actionable insights for boards and senior management.
• I advised JSE listed company board members about detailed holdings information on their latest monthly shareholder report and provided intelligence on the type of investment managers that held their shares.
• I performed detailed analysis of who owns what’ for public equities with the most comprehensive global share ownership and profile data in the industry.
• This provided intelligence for potential mergers and hostile takeovers.
• My clients were PPC cement, Barloworld and Freeworld coatings.
• Utilized data visualization tools to effectively communicate business insights.
• Identified, analyzed and interpreted trends or patterns in complex data sets.
• Used statistical methods to analyze data to generate useful business reports.
• Created various Excel documents to assist with pulling metrics data and presenting information to board members.

• I traded shares on behalf of retail investors.