What Is the Future Looking Like for Natgen?
Join Managing Director Steven Goakes as he outlines Natgen’s strategic direction for 2022, highlighting key projects and market positioning that aim to deliver value to investors.
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In this video, Managing Director Steven Goakes provides an in-depth look at Natgen’s plans for 2022. He discusses upcoming projects, market trends, and how Natgen’s strategic approach is designed to capitalise on emerging opportunities.
Steven emphasises the importance of proactive planning and adaptability in navigating the evolving investment landscape. Watch to understand how Natgen is positioning itself for continued success and how investors can benefit from these strategic initiatives.
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.
Whilst I hesitate to give any predictions about what future economy is going to be like, I can certainly give you a prediction about how Natgen will handle it.
We take a risk-managed approach to everything we do and because we’ve been around for a while we’ve seen a lot of what’s possible, so we make sure that we consider a broad range of options when we take on any property for investors.
My personal view is that the next 2 to 3 years will be very good; there’ll be growth. Pre-covid we were looking at a growth trajectory and I believe that will continue.
Whether we’re likely to have higher interest rates or more inflation, I’m not certain of. There’s market talk of it, but I think we’re just as likely to have a relatively benign situation for the future. So I think it’s an excellent time to be investing in commercial property, but I always think it’s a good time to invest in commercial property.
Our vision for Natgen is less about size and particular numbers of assets and more about the service provision and what we’re providing to our investors. We want to be a place where investors can feel like they’re safely investing in our product, which is commercial property, and that they come back again and again when we provide them with a future opportunity.
Because when we provide them with an opportunity, we are in essence putting the Natgen stamp of approval on it, so they need to know what that means. And that will be built up over time. But what we can do to show that to them now is make sure we communicate with them well.
We tell them why we’re doing what we’re doing, we make sure that our due diligence is absolutely second to none, and that we take a position on what is going to happen in the future so that they can be aware that we have planned and risk-managed that future.
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