Management

 

Investment advisor

Macquarie Capital Investment Management LLC (MCIM) is the investment advisor to MGU and is responsible for determining MGU's overall investment strategy and overseeing implementation of that strategy through day-to-day portfolio management, subject to the general supervision of MGU's Board of Directors.

Since March 2004, MCIM has also served as an investment sub-advisor to the Macquarie/First Trust Global Infrastructure/Utilities Dividend & Income Fund, a registered closed-end fund which listed on the New York Stock Exchange in March 2004 (NYSE:MFD).

MCIM is a wholly-owned, indirect subsidiary of Macquarie Group Limited (Macquarie Group) and a part of Macquarie Funds Group (MFG), the global asset management business of Macquarie Group, and MFG's Macquarie Investment Management Infrastructure Securities division.

Macquarie Funds Group (MFG) is Macquarie Group's funds management business. MFG is a full-service asset manager, offering a diverse range of capabilities and products including infrastructure and real asset management, securities investment management and structured access to funds, equity-based products and alternative assets. The group had $US314 billion in assets under management as at 30 September 2011.

MFG has been managing assets for institutional and retail investors since 1980 in Australia and 1929 in the US, through a predecessor firm of Delaware Investments. MFG has global reach, with a team of 1,381 staff in Australia, Asia, Europe, the UK and the US.

Portfolio manager

MGU's portfolio manager, Andrew Maple-Brown, is responsible for the day-to-day management of MGU.

 

Andrew Maple-Brown
Portfolio Manager, MGU
Managing Director, Macquarie Funds Group
Macquarie Group employee since 2001
New York office

Mr Maple-Brown joined Macquarie Funds Group's Infrastructure Securities investment team in 2007 as a portfolio manager based in Sydney with direct responsibilities for the management of the team's Australia and Asia based portfolios. In August 2009, Mr Maple-Brown relocated to New York and assumed direct responsibilities for the management of the team's North America based portfolios (including MGU) from Justin Lannen, who returned to the investment team's Sydney office and assumed management of Andrew's original portfolios.

Mr Maple-Brown joined Macquarie Group in 2001 in the Debt Markets division, where his focus was primarily on infrastructure transactions, particularly public-private partnerships. He also worked extensively on structured securitization transactions, including executing a whole range of business securitizations for both water and pub assets and commercial mortgage-backed securities.

Prior to Macquarie, Mr Maple-Brown spent over 4 years at Lend Lease in its Project Finance group. In his roles at Lend Lease and Macquarie Debt Markets, he has had in excess of 10 years of experience in financing infrastructure and structured property transactions.

Mr Maple-Brown holds a Bachelor of Engineering (1st Class Hons, Mechanical) and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Sydney, and a Masters of Applied Finance from Macquarie University.

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