What is Natgens Industry Experience? | Interview | MD Steven Goakes

What Is Natgen’s Industry Experience?

Discover how Natgen blends 80+ years of experience with strong governance, compliance, and a risk-managed approach to commercial property investment.

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With over 80 years of combined leadership experience, our team brings deep insight and a balanced approach to property investment. We’ve managed over $1 billion in commercial property transactions, blending analytical rigor with market intuition.

Our commitment to governance and compliance ensures a risk-managed strategy that protects and empowers investors. We believe in sharing knowledge across our company, turning individual expertise into collective strength.

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Steven brings a wealth of experience to Natgen and our clients. His 30 year career has focused on commercial real estate, funds management, compliance, corporate governance and law.

With a masters degree in property and trust law and a business degree, since 1998 Steven has been structuring and operating manage investment funds to maximise returns to stakeholders. Success in this area has come through critical analysis of organisational and stakeholder needs, and focusing management effort in those areas which add investor value.

Steven has managed investment assets in excess of $1 billion and has personally overseen the purchase and investment of a further $1 billion of commercial properties and participated in (and advised on) joint-venture developments totalling over $400 million in gross realisation.

Beyond his professional activities, Steven is also actively involved in mentoring business professionals for organisations within Australia & abroad.

Steven is a responsible manager under the Group’s AFSL.

Video Transcript

We feel like we bring investors a great deal of experience I’ve been in this game for 25 years and my colleagues have similarly been around for a fairly long time I think we’ve got over 80 years worth of experience between the four senior members of the leadership team so we’ve seen you know peaks and troughs in the proper market and we think that’s really important to to have a bit of U you know time to see what’s possible and what’s likely to happen but also you have to keep a bit of imagination about what’s going to happen in the future that’s why we sort of talk about the art and science of property investment because part of it is about the analytics that I spoke of before making sure we do good due diligence all those sorts of things but also you have to have a bit of a feel for property and a feel for the markets and we think we combine those things very well to give a good risk-managed approach for our investors.So over that 25 years we’ve been involved in the purchases of well over a billion dollars worth of commercial property and probably the divestment of a similar amount so a fair bit of knowledge comes in through those things and we’ve also been very clear that we want to collect that knowledge within the company so we do we go to a lot of effort to make sure we collect knowledge within the company and spread it around so that you know one one person’s experiences becomes everyone’s learnings.The other thing that we make sure we do a lot is focus on compliance and governance and we feel like that’s that’s a real strength of ours I’ve I’ve got a master’s degree in in law focusing on on corporate law and governance and that has kind of inculcated throughout our business this sense that we have to make sure that our governance and compliance standards are terrific.In fact I don’t know if investors appreciate it that much but we’ll often drag them into our office and show them our compliance plans show them our risk registers and all that sort of stuff they’re very nice they smile and Nod very politely but we think it’s a really important area to make sure that your governance standards actually match your your management standards so actually compliance is not a cost and a drag on a business it’s actually a very worthwhile Improvement to your management standards.

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