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Andrew Nicholas – Head of Global Property Securities
Andrew's overall responsibility for the strategic direction and performance of Colonial First State Global Asset Management’s Australian and global property securities funds.
Andrew is responsible for management of the Global Property Securities team, one of a number of investment teams in CFSGAM. The team manages a number of Domestic, Asian and Global Property Securities portfolios for a number of funds. Andrew has been actively involved in setting up and marketing a range of new funds in the Australian and International markets.
Andrew joined CFSGAM in April 2006 as a Senior Portfolio Manager. Prior to joining CFSGAM, Andrew was an Executive Director with UBS Global Asset Management managing the Australian Property Securities and Global Property Securities funds.
Prior to this, Andrew worked at Deutsche Bank for 10 years in a number of roles including Head of Australian Equity Research managing 62 research analysts in Australia and New Zealand. He was also on the Deutsche Bank Australian Equities Executive Committee and Deputy Head of Asian Equity Research. In 2001 Andrew commenced research coverage initiation on the Japanese REIT sector. For many years Andrew was a top rated Developers and Contractors analyst in Australia. His experience includes coverage of a number of property and asset sectors namely; REITs, Insurance, Tourism, Infrastructure and Utilities, Transport and Small capitalisation stocks. In this role he assisted numerous capital raisings in the REIT and broader industrial markets.
Andrew also has 4 years direct property industry experience having worked for Delfin (part of Lend Lease) and Lensworth (part of Stockland Property Trust). Prior experience consisted of policy and property research for the Victorian State Treasury and a number of years in the agricultural industry managing large scale corporate agricultural properties.
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Trent Koch - Senior investment Specialist, Infrastructure and Property
Trent is investment specialist for the infrastructure and property asset classes at CFSGAM. This includes business development, product strategy and educating and managing relationships with institutional clients and asset consultants.
Trent has more than 15 years financial services experience across multiple asset classes and countries. He has more than 10 years infrastructure investment experience in Australia and the UK.
Prior to joining CFSGAM, Trent was a director with BTK Capital providing corporate advisory services. Trent also spent three years as Portfolio Manager for the Challenger Infrastructure Fund, an Australian publicly listed fund that invests in global unlisted infrastructure assets. Prior to that, he was a global equities analyst with First State Investments in London and also spent time with Barclays Bank, JP Morgan Cazenove and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Trent holds an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management (UNSW); is a Chartered Accountant and completed his Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Sydney. |
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Antoinette Plater - Senior Portfolio Manager Asia Pacific
Antoinette is responsible for management of Domestic, Asian and Global Property Securities portfolios for a number of funds and mandates.
Prior to joining CFSGAM in January 2006, Antoinette was Head of Property Securities at BT Financial Group. She was Portfolio Manager for various BT Property Securities funds including the BT Global Property Securities Fund and various specialist property securities portfolios for BT Financial group clients.
Antoinette joined BT in 2002 following the merger of BT Financial group and Rothschild Australia Asset Management (RAAM) which were both acquired by Westpac. Over a period of 13 years at RAAM, Antoinette’s responsibilities included portfolio management and investment analysis covering industrial shares, resource shares and property securities. Her roles included Portfolio Manager for Rothschild’s flagship balanced fund and Portfolio Manager for Rothschild’s international equity portfolios.
Prior to Rothschild, Antoinette worked at Merrill Lynch Australia in commodity sales focussing on institutional clients needing to hedge their portfolios
Antoinette is a CFA Charterholder and a fellow member of Finsia (formerly Securities Institute of Australia). She holds a Bachelor of Economics. |
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Marc Lederman - Senior Portfolio Manager North America
Marc is responsible for coverage of a portion of the North American real estate securities horizon.
In March 2007 Marc joined Colonial First State Global Asset Management as Portfolio Manager covering the North American component for CFSGAM’s property securities funds.
Prior to this, he was a Senior Analyst within the Real Estate Investment Trust Group at UBS Global Asset Management in New York. He was part of a team that managed global and regional property securities funds focusing on the North American retail, net-lease, hotel and speciality property sectors.
Before joining UBS Real Estate in 2004, Marc held several senior roles within UBS Global Asset Management’s business group management and financial control departments. This included a two year international assignment in London as a Senior Business Analyst within Strategic Planning and a two year assignment as Controller for the division’s Chief Investment Officer.
Marc is a CFA Charterholder. Bachelor of Arts, Yale University (USA). M.Phil in Finance, University of Cambridge (UK). |
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Stuart Axelrod - Portfolio Manager North America
Stuart is responsible for the Global Property Securities portfolio with the emphasis on Americas property companies. Stuart has been actively involved in setting up our new commingled fund in the US.
In August 2009 Stuart joined Colonial First State Global Asset Management, prior to this, he worked on the buy-side focused on the REIT sector for five years as an Investment Analyst at Citigroup Global Markets - Equity Principal Strategies, as a Portfolio Manager at Platinum Management (NY) LLC and as a Equity Analyst at High Rise Capital Management LP.
Before moving to the buy-side, Stuart worked for six years as a sell-side REIT equity analyst at Lehman Brothers where he was a member of top ranked REIT research teams from 1997-2003. Stuart started his career at Bankers Trust Company in New York where he worked as an associate in Global Economic Research.
Stuart is a CFA Charterholder. BS in Finance Yeshiva University (USA). |
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Marco van Bussell - Portfolio Manager
Marco is responsible for European and Global Property Securities portfolio with the emphasis on European property companies.
Marco joined CFSGAM in January 2011 as a Portfolio Manager, focussing on the European region. Prior to joining CFSGAM, Marco was portfolio manager at Macquarie Fund Group for 3 years. He was responsible for setting up the process and the actual investments for the European real estate securities portfolios.
Before joining Macquarie, Marco worked at Fortis Investments as Senior Portfolio Manager on the European real estate securities portfolios for 7 years. During that period he managed also a global real estate securities fund for 2 years and spent just over 1 year on a non-listed European real estate fund. Marco started his career at Unive insurance as a Portfolio Manager doing fixed income, Dutch equities and private loans.
Marco has a masters in Financial Economic Management from Tilburg University in the Netherlands, is a registered investments analyst (RBA) and has a Master of Science in Real Estate. |
