Senior Adviser & Founder

Troy Armstrong

I started Larapinta because the firm I wanted to work for didn't exist. After nearly two decades advising agricultural and regional families I kept running into the same gap. The large firms had the investment infrastructure and no feel for how these families actually live. The smaller practices had the relationships and not the capability. I wanted both under one roof — so I built it (which took rather longer than I'd budgeted for). The advice is institutional. It gets delivered at a kitchen table.

I work with a small number of agricultural and regional Australian families — exclusively, and by design. I grew up in the Yarra Valley, I still live there, and I've spent my whole career working with families in regional Australia. The conversations tend to happen at a kitchen table or on a verandah rather than in a city office, which is deliberate.

Everything I do is built around the way these families live, work, and think about wealth across generations. The practice stays deliberately small and the investment capability behind it doesn't. Same analytical discipline, same infrastructure, without the layers of people between you and whoever's making the decision. That is the whole point.

Over nearly two decades I've been lucky enough to advise some of the largest and most complex agricultural and regionally based families in the country.

I hold a Bachelor of Commerce (Financial Planning) and Master of Financial Planning, and I'm a SMSF Specialist Advisor. I was named one of the Insiders 40 under 40 (a while ago now).

This is what I am here for.

Investment Office · arcpoint OCIO

Jacqueline Fernley

Jacqueline Fernley is a Founding Partner, CEO and Co-Chief Investment Officer of arcpoint OCIO. She leads partnerships with wealth practices, family offices and foundations to deliver decision quality at scale through CIO-level stewardship, institutional governance, and disciplined implementation across public and private markets.

Jacqueline is a senior investment executive with deep experience across listed equities and multi-asset investing. Most recently, she served as Chief Investment Officer at Mason Stevens, leading the asset management function and overseeing approximately $9 billion of client capital.

Her earlier career includes Head of Research at Wilson HTM and senior roles at Magellan Financial Group, alongside positions including Head of Equities at JBWere and Australian Equity Portfolio Manager at Colonial First State Global Asset Management. Jacqueline is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Microba Life Sciences Ltd and Chair of its Remuneration and Nomination Committee. She holds a BCom/LLB from Bond University, is a CFA Charterholder and GAICD, and a member of Chief Executive Women (CEW).

Bradley Creighton

Bradley Creighton is a Founding Partner and Co-Chief Investment Officer of arcpoint OCIO. He leads the firm's investment capability and is focused on investment outcomes for the practices and families arcpoint serves.

Before co-founding arcpoint OCIO, Bradley served as Head of Asset Allocation at Mason Stevens, leading the development and implementation of strategic and dynamic asset-allocation solutions for platform clients.

His earlier career spans Portfolio Manager roles at AMP and Millennium Capital Partners, Senior Investment Strategist at Optiver, risk management at Aviva and Credit Suisse, and proprietary trading at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Bradley holds a Master of Commerce (Banking & Finance) from Griffith University and a Nanodegree in Data Science from RMIT.