products and services to institutional and individual investors. It invests in global, emerging, and frontier markets spanning the equity, fixed income, multi-asset, and alternative asset classes. The wealth and investment division provides wealth management, portfolio management, private office, and stockbroking services for individuals, families, trusts, and charities. It also offers investments and savings, pensions and retirement, and tax planning services.

The specialist banking division provides private banking, property, corporate and institutional banking, and corporate advisory and investment banking services to personal and business customers. It offers private banking services comprising transactional banking and foreign exchange, lending, deposits, and investments to high-income and high net worth private clients; advisory, principal investments, and property investment fund management services; and corporate and institutional banking services such as treasury and trading services, specialized lending, funds and debt capital markets, and institutional research sales and trading services to corporate, government, and institutional clients.

Investec was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.