We Are a Single Source of Quality Advice for All Your Financial Needs
We are an experienced advisory firm small enough to be able to provide you with the highest level of personalised service and yet large enough to have the breadth and depth of skills and specialist networks to provide quality advice. Our client’s testimony to our long term relationship based approach, with many having grown with us many years. Our holistic approach to your financial objectives can only be achieved with the experience of specialists in Finance, Wealth Management & Business Advisory Services.
The Edge Group
We believe that all people can and deserve to achieve their financial goals if they have the correct guidance, strategic advice, mentoring – and a little desire.
One of the biggest barriers to being successful, that you and your family will face today, is if your Professional Advisers are not all working together towards your goals, with the same clarity and beliefs, and in unison. Your time is too short and valuable to be trying to co-ordinate your different Advisors such as Lending, Accounting, Financial Planning, Insurance and Legal teams. Edge Specialist Advice Network is the formation of Specialist Professional Advisors and services, that work together collaboratively to ensure our clients are given the best possible chance of achieving their goals for themselves, their families and their businesses
Our Philosophy
Our philosophy is that to be successful in this world all people need a plan to be safe and protected, an ongoing plan to be secure and comfortable, and a plan to invest and be wealthy.
Providing certainty in an uncertain world takes on many forms, and we believe in structuring the appropriate safety nets for our clients’ families, assets and lifestyle. We also know that to be successful you need sophisticated holistic advisors that can create and monitor investment plans, and give ongoing advice in relation to timing of markets regarding asset allocation and tax strategies, incorporating investments from all asset classes and sectors. Our Core values are:
- Being passionate about what we do
- Doing everything in the best interest of the client – no question
- Being pro-active with our clients’ interests
- Caring for our clients and our team
- Working ethically and with integrity
- Giving back to the community
As our client, you will enjoy the ongoing, unbiased guidance and support from our team on a year round basis, covering specific aspects of your personal, family or business life.
"In this new modern world there are many challenges such as changing legislation, uncertainty and market volatility. The traditional model from individual industry providers, such as Financial Planners, Mortgage Brokers, General Insurance Brokers, Accountants and Lawyers is broken."
Our History
Edge Specialist Advice Network was created in 2012 to merge existing Financial Planning and Mortgage Broking Advice businesses together with aligned specialists such as Accountancy, Business Advisers, General Insurance Experts and Specialist Legal Professionals.
Scott Butler is the founding member of the Edge Specialist Advice Network. After years in the Commercial Real Estate & Construction Industry, Scott began his career in adult education, investment mentoring, and strategic financing advice in March 2006.
After years of recognising the lack of truly specific & holistic guidance and advice in the wealth creation and adult education industry, Scott set about forming the boutique Financial Planning and Mortgage Broking businesses; Edge (Aust) Financial Services & Edge (Aust) Lending Solutions in 2008. “This was really because we felt that the client experience and advice was often too concentrated in one area. For example, traditional Financial Advisers would always focus and recommend share portfolio’s, whereas people aligned to the property industry would always focus and recommend real estate as the only wealth creation tool”, says Butler. “Too often the recommendations from these Advisers were aligned with their remuneration, or their lack of education for other strategies.”
Expanding on this desire for a truly holistic service to his clients led Scott to seek out specialist Accountants, Lawyers, Business Advisors & General Insurance Agents to work under the aligned banner of Edge Specialist Advice Network. “I wanted to make sure that we could provide outstanding advice that covered all areas of investment asset classes, including real estate, businesses, shares and cash options. Along with that, our focus is on the family as a strategic unit, where we apply our philosophies of well thought out estate planning, assets protection and risk cover insurances.” Edge Specialist Advice Network has hundreds of clients in every corner of the country, and is expanding across the eastern coast of Australia.
