Sunrice Ms Tenneti: Next Speaker for the Day Is Michael Heine, the Joint
SunRice Ms Tenneti: Next speaker for the day is Michael Heine, the joint Managing Director of Netwealth Group Limited. If you could welcome Michael, thanks. Mr Heine: Good morning all. I think that's working, which is good news. I'm going to be speaking to you maybe as potential clients today, as well as investors, so I hope you find the presentation of interest today. I'm the joint Managing Director. I founded the company in 1999 and fortunately bred very well and my son is my joint Managing Director, through ability rather than breeding, probably better than his father, which is always a problem. It's actually a good thing. A couple of key things. Firstly, what does Netwealth do? We're a platform provider which doesn't give you a lot of information, but we're a technology based company providing investment and superannuation services. The services are available to individuals directly onto our platform, but the vast majority of our business in fact comes through financial advisers who use our platform to manage their clients. The platform provides services for superannuation as an alternative to, say, an industry super fund or a self-managed super fund and the superannuation fund allows investors to select their own investments, so very much like a self-managed super fund but we're APRA regulated and we do all the hard work, you don't have to do the work at all. We obviously have accumulation and pension, life insurance and regular contributions, et cetera. The same product exists but outside of super called the investment wrap, where funds that are either outside of the super spectrum or, alternatively, if you have a self- managed super fund, it's a very good product for you to manage.
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