Welcome To Catallyst Advisors
There’s good investment opportunities… and then there’s remarkable ones.
About Us
Our raison d'être is to identify remarkable investors and investments
Catallyst Advisors seeks out remarkable investments and investment strategies and introduces those to our institutional and HNW networks.
We are a small Investment boutique
The Catallyst Difference
We have no corporate imperative to meet budgets or profit targets. We do not introduce an investment for any reason other than being “remarkable.”
We will wait for as long as it takes to identify what we believe to be a remarkable investment opportunity and only then introduce it to our network of investors.
Our
Mission
We’re Focused On Finding Special Investment Opportunities & Strategies:
- Attractive returns at low relative risk
- Extraordinary individuals driving outcomes
- An inherent advantage relative to the market (eg exceptional talent and capability, execution delivery, focus, culture, network, IP, etc)
Our Key Philosophical Drivers
- Ride on the coat tails of extraordinary individuals
- Avoid crowds
- Be patient
- Seek Stakeholder alignment
We are not investment advisers
Whilst we do provide advice and assistance to professional Investment and Wealth Managers, as well as others seeking to raise capital, we don’t provide investment advice.
The efficacy of any investment can only be ascertained by reference to the subjective circumstances, risk tolerance and objectives of each potential investor. We identify investment opportunities without knowledge of these criteria. The investment opportunities we introduce are not appropriate for all potential investors.
We are investors and investment introducers. We introduce investments or investment strategies to institutional and sophisticated investors – those who understand that their subjective circumstances, risk tolerance and investment objectives are a critical fundamental ingredient in determining the efficacy of any of their investments. It is not part of our offer to address investment suitability for any investor.
Founder and Principal of Catallyst Advisors
John Schaffer
John has a history in financial services spanning tax, investment and corporate finance dating back over 45 years. The previous 35 years has been investment focused including research, advice and principal investment.
What We’re Working On
Goodlander Investment Management
Goodlander Investment Management’s absolute return global decarbonisation listed equity strategy is a powerful example of strong prospective return for less than commensurate risk. The strategy targets 15-25% per annum net, yet possesses defensive characteristics to protect and outperform in market drawdowns.
Hardman Johnston Global Advisors
We identified Hardman Johnston’s global equity strategy in our first year of operation. After over a decade we maintain our strong conviction of the strategy being deserved of the tag “remarkable”. Hardman Johnston’s international equity strategies are led by one of the world’s X-Factor talents.
Private Equity – Strategic Capital Partner Raising
In 2021 we were engaged to introduce a strategic capital investor to what is amongst the best investment opportunities we’ve ever identified. We successfully completed that introduction in Q1 22.
Haben Property
Haben are specialist neighbourhood and sub regional shopping centre investors run by Harold and Ben Finger. They provide the perfect example of investors who have superior insight within a niche market, particularly in identifying significant capital accretive value add opportunities.
