A Financial Services Firm For a Rapidly Changing Global Economy.

Established in 2018, ELA aims to deliver bespoke trading and investment solutions to its vast client base of both corporate clients and individuals.

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established in 2018

Our Purpose

We pride ourselves on providing outstanding service and competitive pricing, as well as unrivalled expertise in Foreign Exchange, Fixed Income, Exchange Traded Funds, Investments and Tax Clearance.

ELA is an independent service provider that has relationships with multiple banks, ensuring you always get the most competitive rates and professional and personalised service. ELA is an authorised financial service provider, FSP number 49010.

Modern Wealth Creators

The ELA Team

ELA's team is made up of seasoned financial services professionals united in passion, motivation and creativity.

Each member of our executive team boasts in-depth knowledge of global and local South African markets, as well as strong experience in trading, investing, financial services, and fintech resources.

CHief Executive Officer

Faadil Moti

Faadil Moti is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ELA Asset Management.

He began his career with the Motvest group in 2015 where he was introduced to financial services and gained expertise in day trading, a variety of fintech products, and access to corporates and individuals that required foreign payment solutions. From there, he saw an opportunity and established ELA Asset Management in 2018 with the aim of adding unparalleled value to the financial services space.

Chairman

Yusuf Aziz Moti

Yusuf Moti is the chairman of ELA Asset Management. He is an entrepreneur and an international businessman who has experience and investments in various businesses in the financial services, construction and real estate, healthcare, telecommunications, IoT, mining and retail sectors.

Yusuf has extensive knowledge of the banking sector and served on the board of Barclays in South Africa for 12 years. He is an entrepreneur who is constantly looking for innovative and disruptive ideas to take to market. He is also part of the Young Presidents’ Organisation.

Crowdprop CEO

Zakariya Omarjee

Zak graduated from the university of Cape Town with a bachelor of business sciences degree in finance honours and chartered accounting.

He has experience in a variety of business sectors including financial services, strategy consulting, logistics management and port operations as well as real estate development and investment. During his career he has worked for companies such as Sanlam investments and Accenture South Africa and has served clients such as Standard Bank, Nedbank and Barclays Africa.

Chief Operations Officer & Macro-Strategist

Shiven Moodley

Shiven holds an MCom in Economics and is passionate about data science and economics.

He uses his growing knowledge base with econometric modeling to derive asset allocation in traditional and alternative investment products through a top-down approach to provide the necessary strategic outlook for ELA’s corporate treasury and DeFi solutions.

Fund Manager

Yusuf Darsot

Yusuf Darsot CA (SA) has vast expertise in financial markets, having traded in stocks,commodities, and cryptocurrency assets over the past 7 years, with a special focuses on risk management and fund structuring.

His expertise in tradestructuring has made him a valuable asset in the asset management team, where he leads operations as a fund manager and a risk committee executive.

A Financial Services Firm For a Rapidly Changing Global Economy.

Our Purpose

The ELA Team

Faadil Moti

Yusuf Aziz Moti

Zakariya Omarjee

Shiven Moodley

Yusuf Darsot

Why Choose ELA?

Personalised

Expertise

Adaptable

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