About Us

We are Investment managers

We work closely with our advisors to align our portfolios with their clients' profiles.
Aro's process begins where our advisors are now, and end where they see their business in the future. This is not just a investment strategy – this is a comprehensive client-centric process. We focus on long term goals while complimenting adviser's expertise, with an emphasis on investment management. These questions allow to provide the best strategy for managing your investments
Mission.
To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the investment experience as a compliant and fluid process to endeavor for the best outcome for all parties concerned - the manager, advisor and the investor.
Vision
To provide the most efficient and effective service where advisors and their clients are engaged, informed and content.
Our Team
Nick Dempster
Managing Director/ CIO
Nick has over 20 years’ experience in financial markets, including dealing and advising in market derivatives, foreign exchange and equities.
Nick has developed and combined macroeconomic, quantitative and technical models into a proven strategy which he has used with clients over the last ten years.
Before starting Aro, Nick worked in various roles with Macquarie, Euroz, and IAMA Ltd (now part of Wesfarmers), managing, advising and executing for institutional and high net worth clients in portfolio management, derivative trading, stockbroking and propriety trading.
Nick holds a BEcon (UWA), GradDipFinPlan and GradCert AppFinn
Guy Le Page
Portfolio Analyst
Guy has been in the financial industry for over 20 years in research and corporate advisory roles, including as Head of Research at Morgan Stockbroking,
He is currently a Director and Corporate Adviser of RM Corporate Finance and a Director of RM Capital, and is actively involved in a range of corporate initiatives from mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings to valuations, consulting and corporate advisory roles. Guy was Head of Research at Morgan Stockbroking (Perth) prior to joining Tolhurst Noall.
Prior to entering the industry, he spent 10 years as an exploration and mining geologist.
Guy holds a B.A., B.Sc., B.App.Sc. (Hons), M.B.A., GradDipAppFin, GradDipFinPlan, MAusIMM
Nhat Hoang
Statistician
Nhat is responsible for the financial modelling and testing for Aro’s portfolios.
He is also currently WA Deputy Director for Australian Mathematics Trust, focusing on training young Mathematicians to represent WA in national and international competitions.
He’s a specialist in Financial Modelling & Simulation, and fluent with PostgreSQL, R, Python, C++, C, and Pascal.
Nhat holds BAcSt (ANU), BFin & MFinPlan