Key people

  joefernandes_headshot1  Joe Fernandes – Head of Global Investment Solutions 


Joe is Head of the Global Investment Solutions Group for our business. Located in Sydney, Hong Kong and London, the Group is a multi-disciplinary team with responsibility for the evaluation, development and commercialization of investment offers globally across all asset classes, as well as management of the group’s A$6 billion multi-strategy solutions business.

Joe’s industry experience spans 15 years in business leadership, portfolio management and investment advisory roles. He has established and directed multiple investment businesses, overseeing management of more than A$15 billion across index, active and alternative asset portfolios. Joe joined the Colonial First State Group in May 2001 and Colonial First State Global Asset Management at its establishment in February 2005.

He is a member of Colonial First State Global Asset Management’s executive management team, an executive director of the business’s Australian operations and a Commissioner Director of PT First State Investments Indonesia.

Joe holds a PhD in Mathematical Physics from Monash University, and retains links with the University via membership of the Advisory Board of the School of Mathematics. 

 

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