Anton Honikman

Mr. Anton Honikman is Chief Executive Officer of MyVest. Mr. Honikman brings almost 20-years experience leading cross-functional teams in investment management and financial technology to MyVest. Most recently, Anton served as President (US) of Ada Investment Management, a boutique alternative investment manager. Prior to Ada, Mr. Honikman spent 5-years at Barclays Global Investors (BGI), the large, quantitatively oriented investment manager acquired by Blackrock in 2009. There Mr. Honikman established and ran BGI’s Strategic Ventures Group, spearheading strategic investments and partnerships with innovative private financial services firms. Before the Strategic Ventures Group, Mr. Honikman was as a Senior Investment Strategist at BGI, with primary responsibility for designing and promoting defined contribution and retirement income products. Mr. Honikman joined BGI from Barra, Inc. (now MSCI), the market leader in portfolio risk analytics, where he spent 10-years in a variety of product management and business strategy roles. Most recently, as Barra’s VP of Product Strategy, Anton was responsible for the conception and commercialization of BarraOne, Barra’s flagship web-based multi-asset class portfolio analytics platform. BarraOne is now used by almost every Pension Fund in the top 50 of the P&I rankings. Prior to building BarraOne, Anton was responsible for Cosmos, Barra’s global fixed income product line. He earned a Bachelor of Business Science with honors in financial economics and applied statistics from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.