Iqbal Survé's businesses seem uncomfortably incestuous, given that the Financial Sector Conduct Authority is investigating possible share manipulation at all three of his listed companies. Dewald van Rensburg unpacks the potential red flags.
On 19 January 2019, a remarkable thing happened to the share price of Iqbal Survé's controversial AYO Technology Solutions.
After holding steady at just above R22 for three months, the share suddenly collapsed, spiralling to the current level of R9.
It just so happens that 19 January was the day a downside protection agreement with the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) ended. This agreement lasted three months from 19 October and would have penalised AYO if its share price fell below R22.
This might just be happenstance.
It could also be that someone was buying shares at a price needed to avoid triggering the downside protection agreement and then stopped when the danger passed.
By far the largest buyers of AYO shares in this period (and indeed since it listed) were Survé's family investment company Sekunjalo Investment Holdings - as well as his boutique asset management company, 3 Laws Capital.
Other activity came from a company linked to his brother-in-law, Khalid Abdulla.
These dealings in AYO shares are...
