Connecting proven skill with smart capital

Kings Gate Capital Partners is a leading boutique capital raising and fund marketing firm. We connect global and domestic best-in-class fund managers with allocators and influencers of capital in Australia, New Zealand and the broader APAC region.

Kings Gate Capital Partners is the capital raising arm of Reservoir Investment Management Pty Ltd ABN: 83 662 195 842

We Position Our Fund Manager Partners for Success

Selective and thoughtful positioning of our partners with asset allocators
Committed to a long-term alignment of interest
Build and nurture our partner's brand with on-going presence and marketing footprint
APAC focused team of proactive, experienced & proven capital-raisers

Why Allocators of Capital Listen and Engage With Us

Our investment partners and their strategies have been vetted by our advisory board of experienced CIO’s, sector specialists, superannuation & pension Fund investment professionals, asset consultants, top-tier private wealth firms and family offices

We democratise access to best-in-class managers that are typically accessible to only the large and sophisticated pension / superannuation, SWF’s, endowment & foundation funds.

Our commitment to invest alongside those who allocate to our investment management partners.

We Unlock Multi-Channel Opportunities

The burgeoning, yet fragmented Private Wealth sector, coupled with the Pension Fund landscape provides the bedrock of the Australian opportunity. With double digit legislated growth, the market is poised for continuous growth with total Superannuation / Pension assets expected to surpass $9 trillion within the next two decades, making it the second largest pool of contestable assets in the world, second only to the US*

Institutional
$2.0 trillion
  • Pension / Superannuation Funds, Insurance, E&F's
  • Sophisticated, looking for new sources of alpha
  • Long-term investors
Top-Tier Private Wealth Firms
$~900 billion
  • Private Wealth e.g. LGT Crestone, JB Were
  • Private Banks e.g. CBA Pivate
  • HNWI (adviced and drect)
  • Intergenerational Wealth Transfer ~$3.5 trillion
Family Offices
$500+ billion
  • 700+ across Aus & NZ
  • 1500+ Singapore
  • Seeking innovative and benchmark aware
  • Deep loyalty and relationship driven
Asset Consultants
 
  • 75+ across Aus & NZ
  • Large an growing boutique consultants
  • Includes consultative and asset allocators
  • Increasingly sophisticated
* Deloitte's Dynamics of the Australian Superannuation System Report
# ASFA Superannuation Statistics May 2023
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Our Active Advisory Board and Strategic Partner Advantage

Global networks

Access new and innovative managers and asset allocators

Investment Expertise

Due Diligence to identify persistent manager skill via our research and Two-Sigma Venn process

Asset Allocator Experience

Thoughtfully position strategies with investors

Active Market Participants

Widen the view of investment trends and innovative solutions

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Peter Mitchell
Managing Partner
Peter is Founder and Managing Partner of Kings Gate Capital Partners and KGCP International
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Sean Scallan
Managing Partner
Sean has over 15 years' experience in the financial services industry including private equity, consulting, financial advice as well as financial media
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Alex Keen
Distribution Director
Alex has over 17 years of experience in the financial services industry within Australia having worked across both the retail and wholesale sectors. Alexs’s clients include Family Office investors, Multi Family offices, Private Wealth firms, Private Banks, and Asset Consultants nationally.
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Rajiv Manoharan
Distribution Director
Rajiv has 20 years of industry experience and has held senior positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers, AMP Capital, and the National Australia Bank. He was the Managing Director of boutique advisory firm, Samsara Capital, where he specialised in deal origination and advised select Family Office clientele and raised over US $700M across the Alternative Investment sectors.Rajiv provides an extensive global network of trusted relationships and access to unique deal flow, direct and co-investment opportunities.Rajiv is the Principal of his Single-Family Office, Manoharan Capital Pty Ltd and has a strong family history of business and entrepreneurism, stemming from the family’s printing and packaging business and origins in Sri-Lanka and India.Rajiv holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia and is a member of the Chartered Alternative Investment Association (CAIA).
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Max Toovey
Distribution Director
Max Toovey is the Founder and Managing Director of Marlborough Capital, a privateequity investment and real estate development firm. Max is an active venture capital investor with international investments in Software, AgTech and MedTech. Max identifies and partners with best in class founders to create value within their business.
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Graeme Bibby
Advisory Board Member
Graeme Bibby is an Advisory Board Member of Kings Gate Capital Partners and has over 25 years investment management experience. During his industry tenure Graeme has been responsible for managing and advising on listed and unlisted assets across manager of manager portfolios and multiple asset classes and sectors including superannuation, funds management, asset consulting. insurance and wealth management. Graeme is currently CIO of Partners Wealth Group, a Melbourne UHNW Advisory firm and prior to that, Chief Investment Officer of Mutual Trust, one of Australia's largest multi-family office and wealth management firms and CIO of AIA Insurance Australia for 8 years.He is founder of The Personal CIO Project and Bibby Investment Research working with CIO's and their teams from across the industry, to help them better understand asset allocation, structuring and risk/return metrics. Graeme holds an MBA from University of Newcastle, Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA), Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) and a Finsia Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and investments. Graeme was also a Board Member of the CFA Society Melbourne for 10 years, 4 of which he was President.
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Dr Rania Azmi, Ph.D
Advisory Board Member
Strategic Advisor to one of the world’s largest SWFs, an investor in the Middle East
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Dr Rania Azmi, Ph.D
Advisory Board Member

Strategic Advisor to one of the world’s largest SWFs, an investor in the Middle East, consultant and certified trainer with the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank Group and the UN Industrial Development Organisation

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Keith Drewery
Advisory Board Member
Keith is an Advisory Board Member of Kingsgate Capital Partners with over 30 years' experience in professional services. Keith is currently a director in KPMG's Enterprise practice, based in Sydney, and also consults to Family Offices and High Net Worth individuals through his own consultancy. He is the appointed representative on a number of family boards and investment committees and in the past, has held Board positions at the National Foundation for Medical Research and Innovation and The Funding Network's Sydney Leadership Council. He has also been a contributing editor and co- author to several publications focused on Family Office creation and development.Keith's work with KPMG focuses on the Private Client market working directly with high net wealth families on matters associated with succession, inter-generational wealth management and philanthropy.Keith holds a Masters Degree in Taxation from the University of Sydney.
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Andrew Johnston
Advisory Board Member
Andrew has over 20 years experience in financial markets from time with NAB, Westpac Institutional Bank, UBS and BT Private. During this time, he worked across a range of markets in trading, sales, and operational roles in major financial centers of London, Zurick, New York and Singapore before returning to Melbourne with his family.The majority of his career was spent with UBS working in various divisions of the Investment bank primarily focused on providing services and market access to advisors and direct UHNW clients of UBS Wealth Management. More recently he returned to Australia working with Westpac Institution Bank before being invited to join BT Private Wealth in its curated investment division.Andrew provides investment and asset consulting services to a number of single family offices across Melbourne and Sydney as well as portfolio construction services to a dedicated group of HNW individuals. He holds a B Fin (Hons) from La Trobe University.
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Mark Levinson
Advisory Board Member
Mark is an Advisory Board Member of Kingsgate Capital Partners and is a Managing Partner at Arrkene Pty Ltd, a consulting entity with focus on the financial services industry. He is also an Investment Committee member of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council and an Advisor to the Art Gallery of NSW Foundation Finance Committee. Mark was Managing Director at both Citi Bank and Goldman Sachs. He also served as a Trustee of Goldman Sachs Superannuation Fund which had top decile performance during his tenure.Previously Mark was General Manager and founding Partner of MST Capital, a discretionary Global Macro Fund in Sydney Australia, overseeing operations, governance, marketing and distribution. Mark's vast experience includes working at Drexel Burnham Lambert, working on the CBOE and CME Floors, Branch Manager of Prudential Securities in Singapore and Head of Desk for derivatives in London and Derivative Research Analyst in Chicago.Mark holds an MBA from Emory University in Atlanta Georgia, a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). He is also a member of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST).
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Nathan Peters
Advisory Board Member
Nathan is an Advisory Board Member of Kings Gate Capital Partners and has over 20 years of investment management experience. Nathan has managed institutional portfolios of liquid alternative assets from London and New York and has established an advisory business in Sydney, Cogen Capital. Previously, he was a Portfolio Manager and Director of Research for Fulcrum Alternative Strategies and before that, a Senior Analyst in Robeco's fund of hedge fund unit. Nathan began his career with Jeffrey Slocum & Associates, an institutional investment consultant in Minneapolis.Nathan is a CAIA charter holder and a member of the Executive Committee of CAIA Australia. He graduated magna cum laude with a BA in International Studies and Philosophy from Macalester College
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Joanne Saleeba
Advisory Board Member
Joanne is an expert panel member at Kings Gate Capital Partners with has over 25 years experience in responsible investment and corporate sustainability and is currently Head of Sustainability at New Forests Investment Management. Prior to this, Joanne led the Responsible Investment team at HESTA, in charge of developing the strategic direction of the fund's program across listed and unlisted asset classes as well as overseeing its implementation. This includes the assessment of ESG issues in investment processes and decision making as well as ESG capabilities and ESG outcomes of investment portfolios. She has also worked at the board level to incorporate ESG into HESTA's investment beliefs and strategic objectives of the fund.Joanne also developed the investment strategy and procedure for HESTA's impact investment program. Prior to this, Joanne was the Executive Director of the Investor Group on Climate Change Australia & New Zealand (IGCC) and authored the most recent IGCC publication Zero Emissions/Sustainable Returns: Strategies for Achieving Net Zero Emissions (February 2020).Joanne has an Honours Degree in Economics from the University of Melbourne and a Master's Degree in Environmental Science from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
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Ben Somers
Advisory Board Member
Ben has over 25 years of experience in business development, debt capital markets, corporate banking, and alternative asset management. Most recently serving as a Strategic Advisor & Founder of digital asset manager Flowtrack based in the US and spearheading the growth and fund raising of Elementum Advisors from zero to US$4.5bn in AUM as a Partner and Head of Business Development from 2009 to 2020. Ben is based in Chicago.Ben has also worked at multi-strategy hedge fund Stark Investments and JPMorgan and predecessor organizations for over a decade. He has a keen awareness of the financial markets and an ability to position complex investment strategies to meet the varying objectives of investors across the globe. He received his B.S. in Finance and International Business with a minor in Spanish from Marquette University.
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How We Engage With Fund Manager Partners

Plan & Implement
Investor
Segmentation
Targeted Distribution
Targeted Marketing
Engage Our Advisory Board
Feedback and insights on team and strategy
How to best position the strategy and firm
Work closely with your team
To deliver effective pitches
Promote your brand
Utilise their time effectively
Review & Focus
Regular feedback on activity and results
Adjust to navigate market dynamics and regulation

Why Our Fund Managers Partner With Us

Develop bespoke sales and marketing strategies to position our partner firms' capabilities

Build and nurture our partner firms' brands through our presence in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Singapore

Proven track record of raising capital across Institutional, Private Wealth & Family Offices

Detailed and process driven reporting on an ever-evolving decision making and investment landscape

Diversify our partner firms' investor base across client segments and geographies

Committed to re-investing back into our partner funds to solidify long-term alignment

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Sydney

Suite 401/139 Macquarie Street
Sydney, NSW 2000
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Gold Coast

Suite 3 Santa Crz House.
56 Santa Cruz Boulevarde
Clear Island Waters, QLD 4226
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Melbourne

Level 5, 30 Collins Street
Melbourne, VIC 3000
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Singapore

16 Collyer Quay
# 11-02 Income at Raffles
Singapore 049318
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