Sydney Zoo

Australia’s most advanced zoo in the heart of Western Sydney.

Sydney Zoo was founded in 2015 with an aim to create amazing experiences for the local and international community by introducing them to a range of animal species from all over the world, while also educating on animal welfare and conversation.

Sydney Zoo is embracing technology and innovation to improve animal welfare, visitor engagement and education. Sydney Zoo will be exhibiting animals in a safari-like experience. With clever designs hiding barriers combined with the latest technology, it will provide an experience that is more immersive and engaging than traditional zoos.

Sydney Zoo will support local and international conservation efforts and educate our visitors on the importance of conservation. It will be home to a number of endangered species from all over the world and believe in protecting these animals by giving them sanctuary and participating in breeding programs. Sydney Zoo is a member of the peak Zoological body ‘the Zoo’ and Aquarium Association. It will be an active participant in ZAA-administered programs for endangered animals.

Several environment initiatives have been achieved at Sydney Zoo. The Zoo was built with sustainable building materials and it is the world’s first energy independent Zoo through the development of its solar power network. Sydney Zoo also captures and recycles storm water run-off to use in the moats and garden areas. The Zoo aims to be a zero-waste space, composting all animal and food waste and using biodegradable corn starch packaging.

Further, Sydney Zoo wishes to actively preserve our local Aboriginal history and it is working closely with the local indigenous community, the Darug People. The Zoo is offering a unique, integrated Aboriginal and natural heritage program called the Bungarribee Dreaming experience with Aboriginal guides who will provide interpretation and information with the Australia Precinct.

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Sydney Zoo | Opens December 7
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Sydney Zoo Construction Update March 2019
Sydney Zoo Construction Update March 2019
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Sydney Zoo December 2018 Construction Update
Sydney Zoo December 2018 Construction Update
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Sydney Zoo Construction Update December 2018
Sydney Zoo Construction Update December 2018

IMAX

The World’s Largest Screen

The IMAX Theatre Sydney on Darling Harbour uses the IMAX film system, which is the largest and most exciting film format in the world.  With crystal clear images, ten times larger than the traditional cinema format the IMAX film experience draws you in with pictures so real you want to touch them and so powerful you can feel them.  The giant form frames offer far greater resolution than traditional 35mm film and all existing digital cinema projection systems (including IMAX Corporation’s own digital multiplex cinema IMAX systems).

The IMAX film experience takes an image rich in clarity and definition, throws it onto the world’s largest screen and wraps the viewer in digital surround sound.  The theatre screens films in 2D and 3D for a truly breath-taking movie going experience.

A surprising large part of the IMAX experience is the sound.  That’s what makes an IMAX movie visceral.  You don’t just see an IMAX film; you feel it in your bones.

It’s important to understand that what makes great sound so elusive is the fact that sound is altered by the listening environment and the medium used to deliver it.  Simply stated, sound is affected by the room in which the listener sits as well as the quality of source of the sound.  IMAX has patents on theatre geometry that can control these variables. The shape, angles and dimensions are all specific to IMAX.  The theatre architecture has been customized and enhanced with better soundproofing and more effective placement of the speakers.  This allows IMAX to create an optimum listening environment and deliver a result so precise that you can hear a pin drop from across the room and know exactly where it fell.

Finally, in an IMAX film, the soundtrack itself has been enhanced.  Because of our proprietary digital remastering process, the sound of the original movie has been remixed in post-production to recapture its full dynamic range.  IMAX then tweaks it to make it brighter, crisper and more exhilarating or scarier, depending on the context.  This takes full advantage of the unique, responsive sound system in an IMAX theatre.

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Loftus Peak

Loftus Peak is a global fund manager with a focus on investing in listed disruptive businesses. Our extensive experience of successfully investing in disruptive businesses brings significant discipline to the investment process. The Fund holds large capitalisation names such as Apple, Google and Alibaba, constructed on the basis that strict criteria to give exposure to some of the best and fastest growing companies in the world at carefully determined valuations. This kind of geographical and sectoral diversification lowers the concentration risk inherent in the typical Australian portfolio with its heavy skew toward banks, resources and the Australian dollar. The Fund is a registered, managed investment scheme.

We believe self-managed super funds and investors generally want a professionally managed portfolio that gives them access to these important secular trends, either in a trust or through a managed account, which provides direct ownership of the shares in these profitable companies.

Loftus Peak seeks to harvest a return from the stock market not by replicating an index, but by applying a different lens to the world of business. The Company’s investment team focuses on developing an understanding of the change the world will go through in the next five to ten years and discounting this future value back to get a valuation in today’s terms.

We have applied our approach to the way in which we look at business in the selection of companies for inclusion in the portfolio. We have done this by filtering out companies which do not fit into the disruption thematics. The companies that are left are subject to rigorous research with respect to: industry structure, governance, sustainability, growth rates, competitors, balance sheet, cashflow, income statement metrics and stress testing through the impact of varying discount rates over a 10 year plus forecast period. We do not use a single period valuation metrics.

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Auto Industry Disruption
Auto Industry Disruption

Allied Credit

Putting the power of finance behind industry leaders.

Allied Credit was established in 2010 to take advantage of the demand from vehicle and equipment manufacturers, distributors and dealership groups to provide branded retail and floorplan finance products.

Allied Credit’s highly experienced team have developed an innovative approach to building and delivering finance solutions and products for distributors and their dealer networks as well as large multi-brand dealer groups.

The Company has grown to become the business partner of choice for an increasing array of well-known industry leading brands and dealer groups to establish a financial services business.

Allied Credit provides the finance power behind some of Australia’s biggest names in motorcycling, marine, recreation and automotive finance. Allied partnered with leading and iconic brands to create and provide finance solutions for vehicle and equipment businesses, their networks and their customers.