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Andrew Korbel

Portfolio manager, external mandates, VFMC

Korbel has 19 years of experience in the investment and finance sectors, the majority of which he spent working on institutional investment portfolios. He took up his current role at VFMC in September 2009, monitoring the external fixed interest, cash and hedge fund managers, as well as evaluating new managers and strategies. Prior to joining VFMC, Korbel spent 13 years at Intech Investment Consultants (now Ibbotson Australia) in a variety of roles, including senior consultant, head of manager research and most recently head of fixed interest and currency with responsibility for the firm’s multi-manager portfolios in these sectors. Before Intech, he worked as an investment analyst at TAC Insurance and VFMC, as well as in commercial lending at Commonwealth Bank.
Korbel has a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) from the University of Melbourne and a graduate diploma in applied finance at the Securities Institute of Australia (now Kaplan).