VONTOBEL Asset Management appoints Andreas Faeste as senior institutional relationship manager to further broaden its client reach in Australia and New Zealand. Andreas Faeste will focus his efforts on the distribution of Vontobel’s fixed income capabilities.
Faeste brings with him more than twenty years of institutional sales experience in the Australian market, extensively in fixed income. Before joining Vontobel, he was engaged by firms including Voya Investment Management, Perennial Investment Partners and Deutsche Asset Management through his own marketing firm. Prior to this, Andreas held executive management positions at both ING Investment Management and IAG Asset Management.
“Australia remains one of the fastest-growing markets with large allocations to both traditional and alternative debt strategies, where we see interesting potential for some of our prime capabilities like emerging debt, multi sector bond and asset backed securities. The addition of Andreas expresses our desire to showcase our investment solutions and sends a strong signal of Vontobel’s continued commitment to the Australian market,” says Bobby Bostic, head of sales, Australia/New Zealand at Vontobel Asset Management Australia Pty Limited.