The home of the independent investor
InvestmentMarkets helps self-directed investors search, compare, and connect with a broad range of investment opportunities.
What We're Here For
Our Purpose
To empower self-directed investors to search, find, compare, and invest in the right investment opportunity for them.
Our Vision
To democratise wealth creation in Australia by building the most comprehensive, independent meeting ground for investors and capital raisers. A platform where every kind of investment opportunity is accessible to every kind of investor.
“We had a vision of building a digital meeting ground where all kinds of product issuers could come together, tell their story, and directly explain the value of their investment propositions to an engaged audience of investors. No one in your way.”
InvestmentMarkets at a glance
We seek to connect self-directed investors with a wide range of investment opportunities.
Investment opportunities
Asset classes & sub-classes
To explore & compare
Founded
Official Launch
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How InvestmentMarkets works
How we make money
We connect self-directed investors with the issuers of investment opportunities. Here's how we make money.
For Investors
Free to useFind and compare investment opportunities across a wide range of product types — managed funds, ETFs, property, fixed income, private credit, and alternatives. Filter by asset class, investment objective, liquidity, and minimum investment amount, then contact product issuers directly.
InvestmentMarkets is not a product provider, does not conduct any investment activities, and will never chase you to convince you to invest in a particular product. You control every step of the process.
“We give you access to more opportunities, then get out of the way — and charge you nothing.”
For Product Issuers
Issuer-FundedProduct issuers pay a fee to list and be promoted on the platform. This can happen in a number of ways.
Sponsored Placements
Issuers may pay for increased visibility — featured positions in category listings or homepage placements. These are always clearly labelled "Sponsored" or "Featured," and never influence our editorial content, market commentary, or platform data.
Display Advertising
Display placements are sold to advertising partners and should not be taken as recommendations or endorsements. Advertising partners have no influence over platform data or product comparisons.
Content Partnerships
We partner with issuers and industry organisations to produce webinars, articles, podcasts, and investor events. Sponsored content can be identified by labels such as "Sponsored by", or "In Partnership with".
Leadership
Darren Connolly
Chief Executive Officer
Darren has 25 years of experience executing commercial, customer-focused growth strategies across a wide variety of financial services markets — wealth, investments, funds, banking, broking, and payments.
He has a deep knowledge of the institutional, intermediated, and retail investor landscape having built and led product, marketing and sales teams across UK, Europe, US and Asia-Pacific regions.
25+ Years in Financial Services — UK, Europe, US & Asia-Pacific
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From Frustration to Platform
InvestmentMarkets was born from a simple frustration: the traditional capital-raising process was slow, opaque, and riddled with intermediaries. The co-founders saw an opportunity to build something better — a digital meeting ground where product issuers and investors could connect directly.
Platform Inception
InvestmentMarkets (Aust) Pty Ltd was incorporated in Brisbane, Queensland, securing AFSL 527875 from ASIC. The platform commenced its development phase.
Platform Development
The platform continued its development phase including onboarding product issuers culminating in a Beta version launch in mid-2023. The platform secured backing from approximately 20 investors including fintech venture capital funds and high-profile industry participants.
Official Hard Launch
Following additional platform testing and refinement, including the development of its content and education layer, InvestmentMarkets officially launched nationally in March 2024 with 400 investment products from major financial institutions. The platform was described by media as the "Google for Investing."
Platform Growth
During the year InvestmentMarkets agreed partnerships with the Australian Shareholders Association and FN Arena and also Morningstar for the provision of fund information. Over 700 products were listed on the site as at December 2025 and the platform achieved significant growth with user traffic doubling throughout the year.
Current
InvestmentMarkets continues to welcome new partners on board, extending and broadening it's audience reach. A new show Conviction Capital is launched on the Ausbiz streaming platform, and issuers can now benefit from a wide ranging program of shows, podcast episodes, advertising options, webinars, articles, and newsletters.
Trusted by Issuers and Investors
InvestmentMarkets hosts products from some of Australia's leading fund managers and product issuers and has partnerships with a range of widely trusted organisations.
Notable Product Issuers
Strategic Partners
What we stand for
Independence is at the core of all we do. We put investors' interests first, and we measure ourselves against these four principles every day.
We connect investors to the widest spectrum of investment opportunities, in an independent and unbiased manner.
We continuously improve our proposition and platform. The investment landscape moves fast — we move with it.
We actively seek new ways to empower investors on their own investment journey.
We put investors' interests first, seeking to build trust in everything we do.
Media Releases
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