“Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French writer and aviator, 1900-1944
MacarthurCook continues to cultivate strong, long-term strategic alliances with various groups based both in Australia and overseas, that will help us to build and grow our business.
These strategic alliances include an agreement with leading fund manager IOOF Holdings Limited, who have recently merged with Australian Wealth Management and now manages over $87 billion assets under management administration, advice and supervision, as at 30 April 2009.
RMR Advisors Inc. (RMR)
MacarthurCook is the appointed investment manager for a fund listed on the American Stock Exchange that invests in Asian and Australian real estate securities called the RMR Asia Pacific Real Estate Fund. The Fund leverages off MacarthurCook’s extensive knowledge of Asia Pacific real estate and RMR’s access to the United States investment markets.
www.rmrfunds.com
United Engineers Limited
The Manager of the pan-Asian MacarthurCook Industrial REIT (MI-REIT) is MacarthurCook Investment Managers (Asia) Limited. The Manager, in turn, is owned by MacarthurCook Limited (92.5%) and United Engineers Development Pte Ltd (7.5%), a wholly owned subsidiary of United Engineers Limited (UEL). MacarthurCook leverages off UEL’s engineering , construction, and in particular, integrated facilities management expertise covering leases and tenancy administration, services and systems maintenance and building management and property maintenance.
www.uel.com.sg
Atlas Partners Japan Ltd
APJ assists MacarthurCook to manage its Japanese-based direct property interests. This includes sourcing attractive investment opportunities, conducting analysis and due diligence, negotiating with other relevant parties, then presenting and discussing investment opportunities. For those properties acquired, APJ undertakes ongoing asset management activities.
www.atlaspj.com
IOOF Holdings Limited
This strategic alliance provides MacarthurCook with several significant benefits, including the following:
- MacarthurCook will become the preferred direct property and mortgage investment manager of IOOF, assuming responsibility for the management of IOOF’s direct property fund and mortgage portfolios.
www.ioof.com.au
Advance Asset Management Limited
MacarthurCook is the appointed investment manager for the Advance Mortgage Fund and the Advance Property Securities Fund.
www.advance.com.au