Fatima has over 12 years experience in the design of financial products and services. She graduated with distinction from Wits University. She then went on to lecture applied mathematics in the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Wits University, before joining Standard Corporate & Merchant Bank as an interest rate derivatives trader. Fatima later worked for Peregrine Securities as a research/sales trader. In 2003, Fatima founded Legae Capital, which became one of SA's leading hedge fund multi-managers. Fatima is the founder of 27four Investment Managers, South Africa's first black owned and women-run institutional multi-manager. Fatima has received various awards, to name only a few: the ABSIP Financial Services Pioneer Award; the Financial Mail SA's top 20 black fund manager executives; the Top performing Fund of Hedge Fund award from Hedge Fund Intelligence and; the ABSIP Entrepreneur of the year Award, 2009.