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US regulated utilities – friend or foe

Co-Founder and Managing Director, Global Listed Infrastructure

by Andrew Maple-Brown

Co-Founder and Portfolio Manager, Global Listed Infrastructure

Article 18 Jul 2014
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Andrew Maple-Brown
Co-Founder and Portfolio Manager, Global Listed Infrastructure

Co-Founder and Managing Director, Global Listed Infrastructure
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Global Listed Infrastructure

Andrew Maple-Brown

BEng, BCom, MAppFin, CIM
Andrew joined Maple-Brown Abbott in 2012. Andrew is the Managing Director of Maple-Brown Abbott Global Listed Infrastructure which he started with his partners in 2012. Before joining Maple-Brown Abbott he spent eleven years working for Macquarie Group, the remaining five years of which he spent as a Portfolio Manager within their Global Listed Infrastructure team, working in Sydney and New York. Andrew has more than twenty years of experience in financing and investing in infrastructure assets and securities. In addition to being a portfolio manager for the strategy, he is also responsible for coverage of Regulated Utilities across North America. Andrew began his career at Lend Lease and was there for five years.

 

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