Elfreda Jonker will take on the role of client portfolio manager as part of Alphinity’s Sydney-based team. She joins from Talaria Asset Management, where she was director of business development.
“Elfreda is a welcome addition and adds significant experience to our team. Her role involves creating investment content for client marketing, representing our award-winning investment experts and working with Fidante to manage retail client relationships,” said Alphinity chief executive Johan Carlberg, adding that Ms Jonker would serve as “an important link between Alphinity’s investment and distribution teams”.
Ms Jonker brings two decades of financial markets and corporate experience to the firm, including more than 13 years at Deutsche Bank, where she served as head of equity sales for the bank’s South African business. Prior to that she was at Goldman Sachs in New York, where she was project manager for interest rate, FX and credit derivative products, and also worked in Deloitte’s audit division for three years in South Africa and Chicago.
Jonker’s appointment follows that of Jessica Cairns to the newly created role of ESG and sustainability manager in a move “designed to support the firm’s efforts to more deeply integrate ESG-related matters” across its domestic and global equities funds.
