Morris Group Holdings

About Morris Group Holdings

Morris Group is an independent family-run Australian business operating across tourism, hospitality, technology and aviation. Morris Group serves as the private single family office of Chris Morris. The Australian businessman made most of his wealth through the publicly listed company Computershare which he founded together with his sister in 1978. The firm primarily provides stock registration and transfer services to companies listed on stock markets, but also offers technology services for stock exchanges, investor services for shareholders and employee share plan management. Since the inception in 1978, most of the company?s growth happened through oversea M&A transactions. The most recent one was in 2018 when it acquired the Equatex Group Holding AG, the formerly European shares plan business of UBS. Besides of his interests in Computershare, Chris Morris owns a privately held hotel business, the Colonial Leisure Group, which is based in Melbourne. His accumulated net worth including all business activities is estimated to be around $760 million which made him rank #49 in the 2019 Australia?s richest by Forbes. His single family office, the Morris Group, actively invests in real estate projects and private equity, where targeted sectors are renewable energy, technology, transport, hospitality, finance and food & beverages. Regarding real estate, only hotel property is included in the portfolio. Notable holdings include The Ville in Townsville and The Daintree Ecolodge in Daintree.