A journey of growth and success
Starting in 1984 as Australia’s quintessential value manager in broad-based Australian equities, Maple-Brown Abbott has significantly evolved over 40 years across investment styles, asset classes, geographies and client types.
Thanking our loyal clients
As we enter our fifth decade in business we extend our appreciation to all our clients. Your trust has been instrumental in our journey and your feedback has driven us to improve and expand. We value the relationships we have built over the years and look forward to many more years of successful investing.
Acknowledging our exceptional team
To our hardworking and talented team, we express our heartfelt gratitude. Your commitment to serving our clients over many years has been the driving force behind our growth and you each play a vital role in making Maple-Brown Abbott a trusted name in the industry.
Our evolution
Maple-Brown Abbott was established as an investment management firm in 1984 by the late Robert Maple-Brown AO and Christopher Abbott AM. Starting with $35 million under management and specialising in Australian equities, we pioneered value investing in the Australian market.
With Robert Maple-Brown as lead portfolio manager, our large cap Australian value equities strategy achieved remarkable success. An astute yet humble stock picker, Robert was recognised as “the official elder statesman of the Australian funds management community”1 and inducted into the Funds Management Hall of Fame in 2003.
We have a long-standing commitment to integrating ESG factors into the investment process for all our investment strategies. Our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy was formalised in 2008, one of the earliest for Australian-based boutiques, and in the same year we became a signatory to the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investing.
In 2012, we co-founded the Maple-Brown Abbott Global Listed Infrastructure business with its Principals, who have now worked together for over 17 years. In recent years the team has expanded to include a specialist ESG analyst, recognising the importance of sustainability factors in infrastructure stock selection. Today, the strategy manages A$4.2 billion, with over 75% raised from investors outside Australia2.
We were also one of the earliest Australian fund managers to launch a UCITS fund range in Ireland, allowing us to offer products in a variety of currencies and discrete mandates to clients around the world. Today, our clients include superannuation funds, financial institutions, endowments, charities, family offices, financial advisers, wholesale investors and retail investors.
Our culture and our future
We remain committed to a diverse and inclusive culture, and in particular support the growth of female participation in the investment management industry. We launched our inaugural Summer Female Internship Program in 2018 offering females in their penultimate year of business or finance studies an internship program working with each of our investment teams. The program has continued each summer and we continue to see excellent candidates for the internship.
Being a focused boutique investment manager remains an important driver of our culture, ensuring our interests are aligned with those of our clients. We strive to deliver the highest level of service to our clients and to always act with integrity and the highest ethical standards.
1 Masters of the Market, Hughes, Wilson & Kidman, 2003
2 As at 30 June 2024.