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Dynamic ETF portfolios are a low cost portfolio option and a simple way to access a breadth of investments such as equities, cash, bonds, hybrids and commodities. Our Dynamic ETF portfolios are highly diversified, employing our best-of-breed, multi-manager approach. These low cost portfolios incorporate a broad range of exposures using a proprietary dynamic asset allocation (DAA) overlay to maximise market opportunities.
We’ve been providing industry super fund and private wealth clients with DAA recommendations and investment strategy advice for over 15 years.
The team managing the Dynamic ETF portfolios is led by Damien Hennessy, a highly experienced economist who’s built his expertise over more than 35 years working across funds management, asset allocation and investment strategy. He’s supported by a dedicated internal investment committee, a specialist portfolio monitoring and rebalancing team, and a data analytics team, creating a robust portfolio management, monitoring and reporting process for clients.
Given the continued growth and scale of our managed accounts offering, we've established a dedicated Investment Risk and Governance function which is responsible for all activities related to managed account risk analysis and operations. The focus of the team is:
monitoring risk: identifying potential areas to address at a Fund and portfolio level through our institutional grade risk reporting
portfolio maintenance: managing operational requirements including managed account implementation, PDS review and rebate administration, and
governance: satisfying platform regulatory requirements at initial portfolio launch and on an ongoing basis.
This function provides our clients with the peace of mind that portfolio risks are reviewed regularly, and governance and regulatory requirements are being monitored by a focused, experienced team, which ultimately delivers more efficient portfolio management to our clients.
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Damien is responsible for providing investment strategy and dynamic asset allocation services to Zenith’s clients. In 2003, he co-founded Heuristic Investment Systems (Heuristics) which provided investment strategy, economic analysis and asset allocation research and advice to fund managers, industry funds, wealth managers, asset consultants and financial planning groups. In March 2021, Heuristics became part of the Zenith Group.
Previously, Damien was Chief Investment Officer with HSBC Asset Management Australia, where he spent 10 years overseeing investment strategy, asset allocation and managing fixed interest and currency portfolios. He has over 30 years’ experience in funds management, economics and finance and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from University of Melbourne and a Master of Applied Finance from Macquarie University.
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Steven leads Zenith’s Consulting team, working closely with a range of advice practices to deliver portfolio construction, management and monitoring advice. In addition to oversight of the team and investment process, his role includes participation in investment committee meetings and presentation of portfolio updates to advice practices. Until 2015, he was a member of Zenith’s research team where he conducted manager reviews across a broad range of asset classes, both domestically and internationally.
Steven is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) charterholder.
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David is Investment Director with Zenith Investment Partners, a business which he co-founded in 2002. He was CEO of the Group until December 2023 before moving to the Investment Director role, where he has overall responsibility for the strategic direction of the investment functions within the Group. He remains closely involved in servicing the company’s investment consulting clients with portfolio construction, management and monitoring advice.He has a wealth of investment industry experience acquired over his extensive career including senior positions at IWL Ltd as Head of Research and Associate Director and Head of Managed Funds research at Lonsdale Limited.David is a Director and Chairman of the Investment Committee for ASX-listed Hearts & Minds Investments, a member of the Qantas Superannuation Investment Committee and the Deakin University Financial Planning Advisory Board.
Wealth of experience managing portfolios for Australian advisers and institutional clients.
Proprietary macro market and in-house DAA expertise employed to build the portfolios.
Strategic asset allocation from an Australian perspective.
Investment decisions powered by sophisticated institutional analysis tools, eg. MSCI Barra.
‘Best of breed’ reporting suite available via Zenith Mosaic.
Portfolios which leverage our experienced investment research team to help identify the highest quality exposures to express our asset allocation views.
Gain a deeper understanding of how our Dynamic ETF portfolios are constructed and who the ideal client is for this style of portfolio.
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