Austock Group is a publicly-listed, diversified investment
and financial services group. With high staff share ownership, the
company remains one of the largest independent financial services
firms in Australia. The core of Austock’s business model is to
invest in early stage financial services businesses, leveraging a
highly tax-effective structure.
Founded in 1991 as a private stockbroking business, Austock has
expanded over the past 20 years to now provide Securities,
Corporate Finance, Property Funds Management and Life Investments
to individuals, corporates and institutions around the world.
In its Securities & Corporate businesses, Austock’s key
point of difference remains its commitment to the Australian
mid-cap and emerging companies’ space. Through targeted and
relevant research coverage, a broadly-skilled corporate team, full
service retail stockbroking and a well-networked institutional
trading desk; Austock consistently ranks as a leading house in the
delivery of solutions to meet clients’ financial needs.
Austock Property is a specialist property funds management
company with experience in listed, unlisted, syndicate origination
and management and is the Responsible Entity for three retail real
estate funds.
Austock Life is one of the leading specialist issuer of
insurance bonds. Its core Imputation Bond product offers investors
an expansive investment menu and strategy-based avenues for
incorporating "tax-paid" lump sums into financial plans to meet
life-event objectives.
Austock was registered as a Pooled Development Fund (PDF) in
1999. This status provides favourable tax benefits to the Group and
its shareholders. Austock will continue to utilise this favourable
taxation environment to identify opportunities and build on the
strong platform that has already been established, with the goal of
creating significant shareholder value.