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For Mark White, real assets are starting to come into their own. “It’s the most interesting asset class to be in as far as I’m concerned,” he says. Formed in 1994, Albourne is a specialist alternative consultancy focusing on complex activity, including hedge funds, private equity, real estate, and real assets. White joined the firm in 2008 to build out its real assets practice. Now he oversees a team of nine dedicated analysts, conducting due diligence on investment managers, doing portfolio construction, and running day-to-day operations. He helps build portfolios from scratch and revamps existing ones, as well as advising on direct and co-investments, and managed accounts. According to White, he’s helped clients build and oversee (since Albourne is non-discretionary) roughly $21 billion in real asset portfolios.

The Open Protocol (“OP”) template was updated once again in October 2018 when the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) broadened the ‘Telecommunication Services’ sector and renamed it to “Communication Services.” This change reflects that the way people communicate, share information and entertain themselves has changed– and that companies have responded to this new dynamic of the rapid convergence between technology, media and telecom.