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Our Origins and Structure

The Trilogy Capital Group was formed to harness 150 years of combined property experience of its founding partners.

Rodger Bacon, the Trilogy Capital Group Chairman, is well regarded in Australian business circles, particularly for his role as one of the architects of growth and development of the highly successful listed financial services company Challenger International Limited.

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Trilogy Capital Services Pty Limited (ACN 109 457 838) is the property lending and syndication portion of the business and operates in conjunction with its wholly owned subsidiary Trilogy Funds Management Limited (AFS Licence 261425, ACN 080 383 679). The mortgage lending activities of the Group commenced in Brisbane in 1999 and the acquisition of the business interest and management by Trilogy Capital Services Pty Limited was completed in July 2004.

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Trilogy Funds Management Limited (ACN 080 383 679) is the funds management company and holds Australian Financial Services Licence No. 261425. It is the Responsible Entity for a number of mortgage investment trusts and property syndicates.

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Trilogy Capital Partners Pty Limited (ACN 108 873 258) focuses on property development opportunities, and in particular where it can “partner” significant corporations to achieve their aims in real estate ownership, development and leasing. Activities cover residential, commercial, retail and industrial properties. Through its shareholding “partners” it can demonstrate all the relevant knowledge and skills, with each having the ability to draw on more than thirty years experience on the path to acquisition, development, management and funding of projects.

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Trilogy Structured Properties uses the very extensive property investment, funds management and finance skills in the Trilogy Capital Group to structure real estate investments. The central aim is to “allocate” the various aspects of the property asset in order to match the specific return, risk and cash flow needs of different investor groups. In some cases these transactions may bring into play other parts of the Trilogy Capital Group such as funds management, lending and property development.

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  Our People

Trilogy Capital Group prides itself on the quality of its Directors, Senior Management and staff. We have a “people come first” philosophy. This applies to our staff, our clients and the various organisations in the community that we have dealings with. Maintaining our existing relationships and growing new ones are paramount to our success. Integrity, transparency in dealings, and team processing are the essential qualities that drive our business.

The key people are:-


Rodger Bacon

Rodger Bacon
Chairman and Chairman of the Executive Committee.

In the recent past Rodger was an Executive Director and significant shareholder of Challenger International Limited. In his last two years he was the Executive Director responsible for the lending business of Howard Mortgage Trust and chaired the Credit Committee. Challenger Annuities, another successful Challenger product for which Rodger was responsible, commenced in 1997/98 and captured 30% of the long term annuity sales in Australia, and built a property portfolio in Australia, United Kingdom and United States of America in excess A$2.6 billion.

Prior to that Rodger worked with the Schroder Merchant Banking Group for 15 years during which time he had extensive experience in all aspects of funds management; research and analysis, management of equities; domestic and foreign, fixed interest and direct property as a Board member of the ASX listed Schroder Property Fund, money market dealing and lending (credit analysis) and corporate finance.

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Philip Ryan

Philip Ryan
Managing Director

Phil has been responsible for the development of Trilogy’s mortgage and property products. He sits on the Lending Committee and Compliance Committee for the funds managed by the company. A solicitor for over 20 years he is also experienced in commercial law, corporate law, funds management and financial planning. He is also a partner of a Brisbane based law firm. Phil is an associate of the Securities Institute of Australia, Member of the Queensland Law Society and Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia.

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John Barry

John Barry
Non-Executive Director- Structured Property

In the past John was an Executive Director of Challenger International Limited. John was involved in all aspects of the group as it expanded through the acquisition and management of a broad range of financial investment and service businesses ranging from investment products, equity funds management, mortgage trusts, financial planning, annuities both long and short, master trusts and corporate superannuation.

In particular John was directly responsible for the acquisition and initial ongoing management of the Howard Mortgage Trust. John has a background in Chartered Accountancy with Coopers & Lybrand both in Australian and the U.K. After this he worked with Morgan Grenfell Australia and was a Director of Rothschild Australia Limited.

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David Hogan

David Hogan
Head of Property Assets

David has over 30 years experience in property related financial services and direct property. This experience encompasses the areas of risk management, debt and equity, acquisition planning and execution and property portfolio management.

David was previously a Director of Challenger Property Capital Limited for nine years. During this period he played a significant role in the development of Challenger’s global commercial property portfolio which, at that time, had an estimated value approaching A$3.0 billion. His operational brief also included participating as a Senior Executive in the development and the strategic and transaction management of Challenger’s property syndication business and membership of the Credit Committee of the Howard Mortgage Trust.

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Trevor Gibson

Trevor Gibson
Director - Distribution

Trevor Gibson has over 20 years’ experience in the financial services profession, following on from an earlier career in engineering. He has held roles as a financial adviser, investment research and administration manager, marketing manager and has been the Queensland State Manager for several national fund management groups.

Trevor has written a bestselling book “Mastering Your Money” together with an award winning series of financial education articles. He also developed a student financial educational program that was provided to over 5,000 high school students throughout Australia.

Trevor has a Diploma of Financial Planning and is a Fellow of the Financial Planning Association of Australia Limited.

Trevor uses his extensive knowledge and industry experience to develop Trilogy’s strong relationships with the financial planning community and to meet our objective of providing adviser services of the highest possible standard.

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John Archer

Joe Christie
Head of Distribution – New South Wales and ACT

Joe is responsible for developing and maintaining Trilogy’s distribution network via financial planning dealer groups in NSW & ACT.

Joe originally commenced his career in the international tax division of KPMG in Sydney.

Prior to Trilogy, Joe spent 4 years as the national sales manager of Oasis Asset Management and was responsible for servicing Oasis’ clients nationally.

Joe also has extensive experience in IT in particular developing large IT projects for financial services participants.

Joe is a CPA and is an associate of FINSIA.

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 John Archer

John Archer
Head of Distribution - Southern Region

John is a key member of Trilogy’s expansion into the Victorian market. As Head of Distribution – Southern Region, John is responsible for the continued development and maintenance of the dedicated relationships with key dealer groups and financial planners in Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia.

With 19 years of experience in the funds management and financial planning industries, John brings with him strong leadership skills, extensive experience in property and mortgage trusts, as well as sound strategic marketing expertise.

Prior to joining Trilogy Funds Management, John was the Senior Business Development Manager of the South Eastern Region for Zurich Investments. Prior to this role, he held State Manager roles with OFM Investment Group, Australian Unity Funds Management and Connelly Temple. John holds a Bachelor of Business from RMIT, a Diploma of Financial Planning from Deakin University and is an Associate of the Financial Planning Association.

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Justin Smart
Head of Finance

Justin oversees the accounting and operations teams from Trilogy’s administration hub in Brisbane.

Justin’s experience lies in managing financial operations and overseeing audit processes across Australia and New Zealand.

Justin holds a bachelor of commerce from Deakin University and is a Certified Practicing Accountant.

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Paul Wood
Business Development - Lending

Paul is responsible for the sourcing of new lending opportunities for Trilogy. This involves preparing and overseeing all loan submissions from brokers and direct borrowers, preparation of Letters of Offer, satisfaction of loan conditions, monthly construction draw-downs and the ongoing monitoring of the loans from inception to completion and repayment.

Over his career, Paul has obtained a wealth of knowledge and experience working with some of the larger financial institutions in Australia and has been responsible for managing and maintaining substantial lending portfolios for a diverse range of projects and areas. Paul has a degree in Property Economics and a Graduate Certificate in Project Management from the Queensland University of Technology.

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Rohan Butcher
Non-Executive Director

Rohan brings over fifteen year’s experience to the board in the construction and property industry in a number of roles including Quantity Surveying, Estimating, Project Administration, Development Management, Planning and Project Management for both construction and development activities.

Rohan has specialist expertise in the area of design management, cost planning and control together with project management, construction and planning. He has been involved in a number of major projects within the residential, retail and commercial property sectors, while undertaking a variety of senior appointments with major public and private companies.

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