About
Established in early 2021, the Warrior Group seeks to help investment managers and financial services firms navigate the difficult path to building their businesses and realising their goals by offering its broad-ranging skills and practical experience gained over three decades.
Our view then, and now, is that financial services businesses must constantly innovate and find efficiencies to be competitive and endure cycles, as they seek size and scale. With finite resources and operating in a dynamic environment, ‘fit for purpose’ skills and experience are required at different points in the business life cycle.
The Group’s broad executive experience across the integral parts of the financial services sector has allowed us to assist clients meet their goals and objectives at each stage of their journey.
Over its short life, the Group has helped several businesses establish their investment management capabilities along with the design, build, and launch of their products. Warrior is often called upon to advise and assist with distribution strategies and capital raising. With deep investor relationships across the wholesale, institutional and advice markets, the opportunity for Capital Partners has increased. As well as our own long standing investor relationships, we have close alliances with market leading distribution firms, Daruka Capital and Hillcrest Strategic Partners all of which combined, provides exceptional industry knowledge and access to capital that is difficult to replicate.
Founder and Managing Director
Jarrod Deakin
Jarrod has more than 30 years of experience in financial services. Prior to founding the Warrior Group, he spent 6 years as the Chief Operating Officer and Portfolio Manager at the ASX-listed fund manager, Associate Global Partners. During this time, he was part of an executive team that led a successful business restructure that achieved significant cost savings and launched several new investment products across the major asset classes. These products included actively managed exchange-traded funds, master trusts, and a multi-distributed exchange-traded fixed income fund (quoted and unquoted units).
He was Group Treasurer at the RAA Group for more than 2 years, responsible for managing the regulatory capital of RAA Insurance, RAA Group investment portfolios and balance sheet risk management. He designed and implemented the investment strategy and governance frameworks.
Before joining RAA, Jarrod spent 12 years in senior roles at major global investment banks including Citigroup as a Director in their global markets division, based in New York, Boston, Hong Kong and Sydney, and Credit Suisse based in New York.
Before moving overseas, Jarrod was a member HSBC Asset Management’s Melbourne based investment team.