Andrew Nicholas – Head of Global Property Securities
Andrew is the Head of Property Securities with 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 the management of the Global Property Securities team. The team manages a number of domestic, Asian and global property securities portfolios for a number of funds. Andrew has more than 20 years experience and has been actively involved in setting up and marketing a range of new funds in the Australian and international markets.
Andrew joined Colonial First State Global Asset Management in April 2006 as a Senior Portfolio Manager. Prior to joining CFS, Andrew was an Executive Director with UBS Global Asset Management managing the Australian Property Securities and Global Property Securities funds. He was previously with Deutsche Bank for 10 years in a number of roles including Head of Australian Equity Research and 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 market. He has also 4 years direct property industry experience having worked for Delfin (part of Lendlease) 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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