Murray investing in start-up companies
ANDY MURRAY’S likely enforced absence to sort out the hip injury that derailed his Wimbledon title defence is going to give him plenty of extra time to study his investment portfolio.
Murray has put a chunk of his fortune — through crowd-funding investment vehicle Seedrs — into a whole variety of different start-up companies.
And he is taking a close personal interest in how they all fare. The full list of his 25 investments shows his special interest in health and the environment, as well as sport — backing resale platform Twickets that helps fans access tickets only at face value or below to beat the secondary market touts. Healthy investments are in Mindful
Chef that delivers ingredients for meals, calorieconscious Oppo Ice Cream, made-to-order salads
Tossed and nutrition drink MiTonic. And Murray is helping the carbon footprint with
Sell My Livestock, which supplies meat direct from the farm, and MacRebur, which uses waste plastic to build longer-lasting roads. Murray’s close eye on his investments coincides with his long-time financial adviser, Neil Grainger, scaling down his involvement with other Arena Wealth personnel to take a bigger role. THERE have been concerns expressed at the top of the All England Club about the ever-improving Australian Open in Melbourne, which has three covered courts and attracts crowds of 85,000, challenging Wimbledon’s status as the top Grand Slam of the year. The way the Aussies embrace kids at the event, to help grow the game, is already well ahead of Wimbledon.
POTENTIAL scene of carnage on Centre Court was prevented yesterday by quickthinking BBC sports producer Mark Fleming. He noticed Wimbledon’s Rufus the Hawk was flying overhead just as ESPN were about to film two rabbits by the side of the court for a documentary. Fleming warned ESPN not to let the rabbits out of their hutches or Rufus would have had them for his breakfast.