About Us.
We enable access to unlisted infrastructure and help accelerate the industry toward a low carbon future.
IAM was formed in 2019 for the specific purpose of helping individuals, trusts, self managed superannuation funds and small institutions to access these kinds of unlisted infrastructure investments.
We create feeder funds into best-in-class unlisted infrastructure funds that typically have minimum entry investment amounts of $10-15m. With IAM, private investors can invest in these funds with as little as $50,000.
IAM was founded by a committed group of investors, economists and climate advocates, who believe infrastructure has a critical role to play in the decarbonisation of the global economy. Our products offer private investors hard-to-access investment opportunities that either:
Invest in mature core infrastructure assets with an intention to advocate for value-enhancing decarbonisation initiatives
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Invest in critical next generation green infrastructure required for a low carbon future.
Why Unlisted Infrastructure?
Unprecedented
economic opportunity
In the face of climate change, growing populations, increased urbanisation and technological advancement, growing fiscal pressures, there is a huge need for private capital to meet the sustainable infrastructure gap.
Estimates from the OECD and International Renewable Energy Agency suggest decarbonisation will require anywhere from US$4-7 trillion of new investments each year.
The climate crisis offers unprecedented opportunity for economic investment in assets that provide essential services to communities around the globe.
Benefits of unlisted infrastructure
Predictable, stable, long term cash flows
Lower volatility due to stable and often protected revenue streams
Diversification benefits from lower correlation to economic cycles
Inflation protection
Capital growth
Meet the team.
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John McKinnon
DIRECTOR
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Richard Denniss
DIRECTOR
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Jonty Low
DIRECTOR
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Eytan Lenko
DIRECTOR
Dr John McKinnon, Director
John began his career in the finance industry. After holding several positions in funds management, asset consulting and superannuation consulting, John co-founded the Australian office of Grantham Mayo van Otterloo LLC in 1995. For the subsequent ten years he was responsible for GMOA’s Australian equity investments, which grew to approximately AUD 6 billion. Post 1997, John was the senior partner of the business, which, when he left in 2005, had over $10b in total funds under management.
In 2005 John joined overseas aid and development charity TEAR Australia. During this time he completed his PhD in social enterprise and development, investigating the intersection of finance and poverty alleviation.
Since 2012 John, together with his wife Sue, has managed the McKinnon Family Foundation, a private ancillary fund that focuses on climate change mitigation. Both John and Sue are keen to maximise use of their assets, which means investing the corpus as much as possible in line with their values and the mission of the foundation. Hence they have been at the forefront of impact investing.
In 2020 John played a key role in transitioning Australian Associated Press (AAP) into a not-for-profit charitable entity focused purely on providing services to the Australian community.
John sits on a number of boards including AAP, The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility and is chair of The Australia Institute.
Dr Richard Denniss, Executive Director
Richard is the Executive Director of The Australia Institute. He is a prominent Australian economist, author and public policy commentator, and a former Associate Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at ANU, Richard was described by Mark Kenny in the Sydney Morning Herald as "a constant thorn in the side of politicians on both sides due to his habit of skewering dodgy economic justifications for policy". The Australian Financial Review listed Denniss and Ben Oquist of The Australia Institute as equal tenth-place on their 'Covert Power' 2018 list of the most powerful people in Australia.
Prior to his appointment at The Australia Institute, Denniss was Senior Strategic Advisor to Australian Greens Leader Senator Bob Brown and was also Chief of Staff to Senator Natasha Stott-Despoja, former Leader of the Australian Democrats. He was also a Lecturer in Economics at the university of Newcastle.
He is a prolific writer with regular columns in the Guardian as well as writing regular essays for The Monthly. He has written five books including Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough (with Clive Hamilton), An introduction to Australian Public Policy (with Sarah Maddison), Minority policy: rethinking governance when parliament matters (with Brenton Prosser) Econobabble: How to Decode Political Spin and Economic Nonsense, Curing Affluenza: How to Buy Less Stuff and Save the World and the June 2018 Quarterly Essay, Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next.
Jonty Low, Director
Jonty has 25 years experience working at the intersection of business, policy and politics. She is Chair of Australian Associated Press (AAP).
She spent 10 years leading the secretariat of think tank, the Committee for Sydney where her work focussed on policy and business development, advocacy and program implementation.
Jonty has worked for and with some of the most influential people in Australian politics and business in roles that required her to convert access and ideas into impact and outcomes. She has worked closely with people as diverse as Lucy Turnbull at the Committee for Sydney and Sydney Airport Corporation’s Max Moore-Wilton and has a proven ability to work effectively across the political spectrum and on a wide range of issues.
She has over eight years’ experience in the tourism sector in policy and strategy roles and was a representative on the Government’s Tourism and Hospitality Labour and Skills Roundtable for two years.
Jonty has extensive knowledge of government protocols and procedures. She has experience in both the private and not-for-profit sectors and a broad business background and sound understanding of different business operating environments.
Jonty was Executive Officer for the Australian Institue for Collection Recovery and has also worked in a number of strategy and consultancy roles in the private and public sector including for the Port of Newcastle, City of Sydney, PwC and The Asia Society.
Eytan Lenko, Director
Eytan has built his career on anticipating waves of technological change and taking an entrepreneurial approach to position organisations to make the most of them.
Over the past 25 years, Eytan has been an innovator and leader across three of the most significant technological disruptions, the advent of the web, mobile technology and the current impetus towards decarbonisation.
Eytan is currently the Chair of Beyond Zero Emissions, an Australian-based, internationally recognised climate and energy solutions think-tank that shows how Australia can thrive through a transition to a zero-emissions economy.
Eytan was a founder of Outware Mobile, one of Australia’s fastest growing tech companies which he grew to an Australian team of over 250 when it was acquired in 2017.
In 2020, Eytan was also appointed to the NT Economic Reconstruction Commission to advise the Chief Minister on growth pathways for the NT economy.
Eytan is also a direct investor and advisor to a number of ambitious cleantech companies and understands the challenges that businesses face to practically achieve decarbonisation outcomes in a real-world environment.