Activate your wealth.
Empower your legacy.

We're a family office helping families activate their wealth, protect their futures, and build something that lasts beyond them.

Our Approach

Legacy is not what you leave to your children. It's what you leave in them.

The wealth industry talks about legacy constantly estate planning, tax structures, intergenerational transfers.
Documents. Numbers. Logistics.

We believe legacy is something else. The feeling your children carry long after you're gone. The habits absorbed without teaching. The values caught, not preached.

Financial capital matters. But the inheritance that matters most can't be divided in a will.

Our Performance

How experience
became conviction.

What we believe wasn't borrowed from a textbook or written in a boardroom. It was learned across decades. Through markets and migrations. Through setbacks and starting over.

We built our structures with our own capital. Made our mistakes on our own time. Only then did we extend the invitation to families who share our values.

1975

International Delegation

BSc Engineering (Honours), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. A disciplined mind begins to form.

1975-1985

The Foundations

1985

Doctorate in Business Administration (Economics), North-West University. The research mindset takes hold.

1979 - 1991

The first values take
shape

"Sleep well before you eat well."

A resignation on principle. No fallback plan. The margin of safety comes first. The compounding follows.

1986

South African delegation to the World Bank and IMF Annual Meeting, Bangkok.

1991

"The economics of a business drive returns."

Hyperion Asset Management founded. One conviction: the fundamental capacity of a quality enterprise to generate cash, compound capital, and endure. Business economics first. Stock price second.

1996

The Philosophy
takes shape

1998

2000

2003

2004

Global Masters Fund founded. Global markets.
Same discipline.

2006

"Discipline through all cycles."

Global Financial Crisis. Markets fall 24%. The portfolio holds because the businesses hold. Recovery within the fiscal year.

2008

Discipline Through Crisis

2009

2010

Manny steps away from Hyperion. Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary trustee appointment.

2011

A New Chapter Begins

"The family unit.

EC Pohl & Co founded as a family office — for the family's own capital first. $170 million of private clients follow. One firm. One philosophy. No exceptions.

2012

"Test it on yourself first."

ECP Asset Management established. Manny and Jared as co-founders. Jason joins after admission to the Bar. Two generations at one table.

2013

2014

Turning Legacy Outward

2015

Bond University Council and Chancellor's Circle. Indigenous scholarships funded.

2016

The Legacy Pillars take shape

Nominated to the Worshipful Company of Loriners, London.

2017

Member of the Order of Australia. Significant service to the finance sector and community.

2019

Recognition and
Innovation

Environmental Legacy. The Annual Ambrose founded by Jason. An annual gathering for wildlife conservation — our duty of care extended beyond the family.

2020

Building the
next generation

ECP UCITS ICAV

established Tax-efficient global structure. Enhancing compounding. Supporting legacy-focused wealth creation.

2023

Structures for
Generations

"New dimensions of wealth.

ECP Private Growth Fund launched. Quality private companies. Growth before markets see it.

2024

New Dimensions
of Wealth

EC Pohl & Co Private Wealth expansion

The structures built for our family, extended to yours.

2025

The Table Grows

2026

The Invitation
Extended

"There's always room at the table."

Gold Coast. Sydney. London. Dublin. $3 billion under management. 150+ families. We built this for our family first. Now we're making room for yours.

Illustration of a four-story beige building with trees behind and a front door with windows.

Today

Legacy is not what you leave to your children. It's what you leave in them.

Activate your wealth. Empower your legacy.

HOW WE INVEST

The economics of a business drives
long-term returns.

This is our single, organising belief. Everything else flows from it.
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Share prices move daily. The underlying business doesn't. What matters for long-term wealth is whether a company can keep generating cash, protecting margins, and reinvesting intelligently through good conditions and bad.
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We focus on quality businesses with the strength to weather the unpredictable. We call this resilient investing. The same conviction guides every portfolio we manage, whether it's ours or yours.

Our Investments

WHAT WE STAND FOR

The values behind every decision.

These principles were forged with our own capital at stake. They guide every decision we make for our family and for yours.

Demystifying Active Wealth

We believe in a well-versed, well-informed client because that is the only way a genuinely trusting relationship can exist. To foster this, we deliver full visibility, full transparency, and ongoing education into what we call 'active wealth.'

New Dimensions of Wealth

In the past, wealth was one-dimensional, centered on financial well-being. We believe it should now contribute to overall well-being by enabling vitality, transformation, connection, positivity, responsibility, and experience, alongside delivering security.

Our Duty of Care

We believe every generation has a duty of care to the previous generation, to the present, and to the future. We care deeply about the footprint we leave, the example we set, and the visions we shape.

Family Unit

Families matter immensely to us. We strongly believe they are the wellspring of connection in society, and we aim to ensure they are secured, supported, and empowered.

Sleeping Well Before Eating Well

We are a highly ethical team, committed to good investing. We are relentlessly transparent, honest about our capacity, and vigilant in applying our process.

A Genuine Long-term Approach

We nurture strong relationships with customers, colleagues, and portfolio organisations, believing that sustainable growth requires long-term thinking.

philosophy

One philosophy. Multiple structures.

The same research engine and conviction sit behind everything we build.
One firm. One philosophy. Different ways to access it.

Asset Management

The research engine behind everything we do.

Private Wealth

One philosophy applied to your family's capital.

Wealth Foundry

Structures designed to outlast us.

Funds & Listed Companies

Pooled access to our philosophy.

the quiet proof

We've never been one to talk about numbers.
But as they say, the proof is in the pudding.
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Here's ours.

25+

Years of Patience

$3Bn

Under Management

120+

Families

1st Quartile

Since Inception

A REFLECTION FROM OUR FOUNDER

We built this for ourselves first...

“Nobody inherits a spreadsheet. They inherit Saturday mornings. The patience you showed when markets fell. Whether you were distracted or present. Rushed or calm.

My grandchildren are too young to understand what I built. But they're not too young to absorb how I built it. The long view. The discipline. The showing up.

The portfolio is just the container. What's inside is how you carried yourself when it mattered.

That's the inheritance no one can divide.”

Dr Manny Pohl AM