Investor Aggregation

The CCIV and Asset Tokenisation

My focus of late has been totally on the CCIV and Asset Tokenisation. The CCIV is the new Australian corporate investment vehicle called the “Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle”. Tokenized Assets Tokenised Assets are any assets that can be divided into fractions to satisfy multiple owners. Tokenisation of artworks and digital trading cards were the first …

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The new CCIV Australian Investment Entity

There is a new CCIV Australian Investment Entity. Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle. It follows the pedigree of already successful similar vehicles in the United Kingdom, Singapore and Ireland. This entity will be a game-changer, but it may take a while for the incumbent players to embrace it as there is considerable money and expertise invested …

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How to Re-Build the Real Estate or Property Business Worldwide using Blockchain

How to Re-Build the Real Estate or Property Business Worldwide using Blockchain is a question many people are pondering. Worldwide, one guy is way ahead in this area. Scott Picken. Brisbane here is your chance to see him. Scott recently shared his views in London, Dubai, New York and Atlanta. Now it’s Australia’s turn with …

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Parallels between ICO’s and the early days of Equity Crowdfunding

(Here is a post from 2015 when I started pushing for Crowdfunding to be moved to the Blockchain) If I go back to 2008, in the very early days of Equity Crowdfunding,  the ASSOB platform has already been operating for around four years. This meant there were plenty of learnings in place even before any …

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Real Estate Crowdfunding Researched

Came across a great read this week. Real Estate Crowdfunding: Gimmick or Game Changer? A Real Estate Crowdfunding Report which has been researched very well. You can download it here! Whenever new technology is adopted by some of the participants in an industry, it has the potential to disrupt the existing players and their roles, or …

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What Government Sell Downs can learn from Crowdfunding Techniques

Reflecting on the learnings of 300 Equity Crowdfunding raises I thought many of the tools, techniques and especially the transparency could be directly applied to Government asset sell down. With equity raises there are three aspects that tick the boxes when it comes to getting a fundable opportunity. Of course there are the analytics and supporting …

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Submission to Crowd-sourced funding Senate Economics Legislation Committee

This is my submission to Dr Kathleen Dermody, Committee Secretary, Senate Economics Legislation Committee who have the task of reviewing the Corporations Amendment (Crowd-sourced funding) Bill 2015 [Provisions] Submission Mismatch – Not for small businesses There is a complete mismatch between the marketing of “Crowd-Sourced Funding” and what this bill will achieve. It has been touted as good for …

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Equity Crowdfunding but whose crowd is it?

This article with an Equity crowdfunding headline got me thinking. First equity crowdfunding deal in Australia for 2016 raises more than $675,000 To an entity getting funded to the tune of $675,000 is a great achievement. For a platform to facilitate this is also a great achievement. Well done! However the phrase “With three days …

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Investor Aggregation for Capital Raising and the Campaign Approach

Traditionally investor aggregation at the IPO level often includes a well planned and well funded marketing campaign. However non-IPO raises seldom have as well constructed campaigns. Often the “rolodex” is the campaign. Go through the rolodex and do a one time communication, usually an email with an investment summary attached, to the target. In the …

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