Venturing into capital raising
Australian Financial Securities (AFS) is a dealer group with a difference, carving out the niche of venture capital raising in the financial services industry. Nicole Szollos went inside the dealers with AFS director Brad McGougan to get the AFS inside story.
</B>Vital Statistics Box
Name Australian Financial Securities (AFS)
Obtained dealers licence March 1998
Number of Adviser groups 10
Number of Proper Authority Holders 35
Funds under management $110 million
Research Assirt, van Eyk and internal
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