Proactive investing requires making choices that often demand a level of conviction about a decision many years ahead of its time.

For Australian ultra high net worth (UHNW) investors – many of whom invest in fintech in California, Boston, Berlin or Shanghai and heavy IT infrastructure via private equity, seed or even syndicated capital – a bifurcating choice is being asked of them to either invest further into existing cloud-based infrastructure or its nascent alternative, known as "edge" computing.