Welcome to Garnaut Private Wealth

Building personal wealth for over 30 years

2ND LARGEST
FUM PER CLIENT

3RD LARGEST
FUM / ADVISER

We are proud to be one of Australia's strongest, longest-standing independent financial advisory firms.

A full-service, exclusive, boutique financial adviser

We exclusively advise high net worth, sophisticated and professional families, businesses and charities. Our clients assets total more than $3.5 billion.

We focus on absolute returns, active management and capital preservation. We are a full-service house and have provided expert, holistic financial advice since 2001 to entrepreneurs, professionals, senior executives and their families, as well as to family offices and boards of charities and businesses.

Garnaut Private Wealth is proud of its position as one of Australia’s strongest and longest standing financial advisory firms not owned by a major bank or financial corporation.

About Garnaut Private Wealth

"Since 1986, we’ve guided our clients through recessions, market shifts, and generational transitions.”

Why Garnaut Private Wealth?

Proven Expertise

Our partners and private wealth advisers are formally qualified and continuously enhance their expertise. We provide expert advice on shares, bonds, options, managed funds, insurance, superannuation, margin lending, credit, estate planning, and investment tax implications.

Proven Expertise

Not Owned by a Bank

As an independent firm, we recommend a wide range of tailored investment solutions. Unlike many firms, our unrestricted access to investments allows us to include any traditional or alternative asset classes in your financial strategy.

Not Owned by a Bank

Holistic Advice

Our consultative process provides a comprehensive understanding of your circumstances to identify your key value drivers. By focusing on your objectives, we help build and preserve your wealth, considering all family assets, even those outside our advice, for an integrated financial approach.

Holistic Advice

Institutional Knowledge

Our advice is backed by over 30 years in financial markets and nearly 200 years of combined committee experience. Supported by internal and external research teams, our rigorously scrutinized investment strategies leverage leading industry experts and prominent economists globally.

Institutional Knowledge

Our Team

Our advisers work in small teams supported by in-house research, risk, and administration. Each is highly qualified and committed to ongoing professional development—so your advice is always considered, and current.

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Chris Garnaut

Executive Chairman

Christian Zimmer

Partner

Anthony Windress

Partner (Sydney Office)

Matthew Starling

Partner

Patrick Garnaut

Executive Director

Geoff Schubert

Chief Investment Officer

Our Services

Advising Self-Managed Superannuation Funds

An SMSF can offer greater control over investment decisions, lower costs and a wider range of investment opportunities than a public offer superannuation fund.

Advising Self-Managed Superannuation Funds

An SMSF can offer greater control over investment decisions, lower costs and a wider range of investment opportunities than a public offer superannuation fund.

Advising Self-Managed Superannuation Funds

An SMSF can offer greater control over investment decisions, lower costs and a wider range of investment opportunities than a public offer superannuation fund.

Wholesale Commercial Property Syndication

Property investment is an integral part of successful investment portfolios and our clients are provided with preferential access to some of Australia's premier unlisted property trusts.

Wholesale Commercial Property Syndication

Property investment is an integral part of successful investment portfolios and our clients are provided with preferential access to some of Australia's premier unlisted property trusts.

Wholesale Commercial Property Syndication

Property investment is an integral part of successful investment portfolios and our clients are provided with preferential access to some of Australia's premier unlisted property trusts.

Risk Management

This includes expertise in comparative insurance terms and conditions to provide you with the best in underwriting advice, product quality, ease of assessment and claims experience.

Risk Management

This includes expertise in comparative insurance terms and conditions to provide you with the best in underwriting advice, product quality, ease of assessment and claims experience.

Risk Management

This includes expertise in comparative insurance terms and conditions to provide you with the best in underwriting advice, product quality, ease of assessment and claims experience.

Garnaut Absolute Return Theme (GART)

Introduced in 2001 through our proprietary specialist boutique and value theme, the aim of GART is to produce long term 'absolute returns' through all market cycles.

Garnaut Absolute Return Theme (GART)

Introduced in 2001 through our proprietary specialist boutique and value theme, the aim of GART is to produce long term 'absolute returns' through all market cycles.

Garnaut Absolute Return Theme (GART)

Introduced in 2001 through our proprietary specialist boutique and value theme, the aim of GART is to produce long term 'absolute returns' through all market cycles.