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The Farsight Team
Rob Worthington-Smith
BSc. Agric Econ Hons, Stellenbosch
Rob Worthington-Smith has over 25 years’ experience as a business analyst and seven years as a writer of integrated annual reports for JSE-listed companies across a variety of industries, including banking, insurance, resources, manufacturing, mining, electronics and business process outsourcing. Achieved first place in 2010 and 2011 for the Bidvest Group’s Integrated Report (EY Reporting Awards). In 2013, Rob began work on the FarSight model in order to create a better business case for the incorporation of ESG issues into investment analysis. FarSightFirms (Pty) Ltd was incorporated in 2016.
Contact: rob@farsightfirms.com
Matt Worthington-Smith
B Bus Science, UCT
Matt Worthington-Smith is currently engaged in the MPhil programme in inclusive innovation at UCT’s Bertha School of business. His dissertation seeks to understand the difference in approach between how investors on the one hand, and ESG analysts on the other hand, include ESG issues into investment decisions. Matt is responsible for building and maintaining the databases and algorithms that serve the FarSight model, and is also the FarSightFirms.com webmaster. Disclosure: Matt is the son of Rob Worthington-Smith
Contact: matt@farsightfirms.com
Strategic partnership with Legae Securities
FarSight provides ESG research exclusively to Legae Securities for the South African market. We enjoy a strategic partnership that includes rich engagement with the Legae research team as we grapple with the complex dynamics of this young industry. A key collaborator at Legae is Waseem Thokan. For more information on Legae, follow links to About Us on the Legae website.
Research Independence
We try to avoid conflicts of interest that could compromise the integrity of our research. For this reason, we neither speak to company leadership, nor do we hold any interest in the stock of the companies we research.
Our channel partner, Legae Securities, provides equity brokerage services as well as research.
In order to further avoid conflict of interest, FarSight conducts no paid-for research for target companies (top 100 companies on the JSE). Where companies buy our research reports, such transactions are kept at arms’ length from our research process.