MA Financial Group Limited (MAF) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Good morning and welcome to the first half FY25 result for MA Financial Group. My name is Julian Biggins and I am the joint CEO of MA Financial alongside Chris Wyke who is in the room with me. We also have Giles Boddy, Chief Financial Officer and Michael Leonard, the Head of Investor Relations with us. We're once again very pleased to report a strong group result underpinned by contributions from all of our businesses with momentum continuing into the second half. I'll start the presentation on slide five and spend a moment on our philosophy before we run through the first half performance. In June, we celebrated our 16th anniversary with the business being founded in 2009. As a reminder, MA Financial was founded as a corporate advisory business, along with the key approach being clients first and providing a positive environment for our staff. This approach stands true today, despite our business now covering a number of different business divisions and countries. Over the years, we've built numerous businesses from scratch, including the Asset Management Division, which initially focused on the innovative immigration-related products and later successfully expanded to include hospitality, private credit and real estate, and investing on behalf of a very broad range of investors. More recently, we've expanded into the residential market through FinShore and the MA Money business we've both attached to the large Australian residential market. Businesses are not built in a linear way and strategies need to be proactively managed and refined over time. Building is often commenced with periods of investment and therefore short-term headwinds although ultimately we want to see the growth come through. In managing MA Financial we have a portfolio approach to trying to mak...