Ancient in patience. Enduring in purpose.
Wealth management and family office, exclusively for Australia’s agricultural and regional families.
Before the sale and long after it: one senior adviser, institutional investment capability, and a family office that works with your accountant and solicitor.
Troy Armstrong, BCom (FinPlan), MFinPlan, SSA · Former Partner, Koda Capital · Nearly two decades advising farming families · Authorised Representative of Capella Advisory, AFSL 550125
In your name
Your investments stay in your family’s name: listed shares and ETFs on your own HIN, cash with a major Australian bank in your name and/or the name of your applicable investment entity.
Custody
Other assets held in custody by Citi and Clearstream.
Investment office
arcpoint OCIO, with Mercer manager research.
Licensing
Corporate Authorised Representative (No. 1321104) of Capella Advisory Pty Ltd, AFSL 550125.
In the press: AFR · Financial Standard · Money Management · InvestorDaily · FS Private Wealth · The Inside Adviser
Larapinta is the Arrernte name for the Finke River, one of the oldest rivers on Earth. Through drought and flood, ice age and heat, it has endured. We carry that name with deep respect.
Our Story →We sit alongside families, providing counsel, connection, and continuity across generations.
I built Larapinta Private from nothing. There's no legacy system to defend, no institutional bureaucracy to work around, and nobody upstairs to keep happy. What's left is a firm that answers to the families in it.
Looking after family wealth and legacy
The capability of the large. The intimacy of the small.
Investment Management
Institutional-grade, globally diversified portfolios constructed with rigour and looked after with long-horizon conviction. Built around your family's specific objectives — not a model portfolio.
Family Office Services
The work of bringing your professionals into one room — and keeping them working from the same picture.
Your accountant, solicitor, banker, and insurance broker each see one part of the family. We sit at the centre: we convene the right people, sequence the work, and project-manage the decisions that cut across tax, legal, succession, and investment — so nothing falls into the gap between them.
The tax stays with your accountant. The deeds stay with your solicitor. We hold the whole picture.
How we coordinate →Private Advisory
Strategic wealth planning that brings together cashflow modelling, retirement income design, superannuation structures, and tax-efficient entity architecture into a single framework — shaped by the family, not a product. A relationship that extends beyond scheduled reviews, available for the moments that matter.
What you can hang your hat on
Agricultural and regional families only
It's the whole firm, not a desk inside a bigger one.
Founder-led and privately owned
No outside shareholders, and one person accountable for your family's affairs.
After a sale, and before one
When a large sum lands, we help put it to work and look after it for the long haul. Until then, we build wealth beside the farm. If a sale is coming, start with who to talk to before selling the farm. If the farm has just sold, here's what to do with the money after selling the farm.
Institutional investment
Portfolio research and construction through our investment partner, arcpoint OCIO.
Your advisers stay
Your accountant keeps the tax and your solicitor keeps the deeds. We hold the whole picture and keep everyone working from one plan.
Planned around the seasons
Harvest, livestock turns, entities, and succession, not a city pay cycle.
See how we think: Articles and Private Letters · In the press · Our services
We invest the way the river moves. Slowly, in one direction, and without much interest in the weather.
Most firms manage to the quarter, or at best the year. We manage to the generation — and that one choice decides everything downstream of it. A short horizon has to treat volatility as risk. Over thirty years it's closer to the price of admission.
We also look after short-term, liquid, defensive portfolios, so a family can meet what is due this year without selling something bought for the next thirty.
Foundation
60–80% · the bedrock
Long-duration, diversified, institutional-grade. Built for resilience across cycles.
Conviction
10–30% · thematic & opportunistic
Researched positions in structural themes, sized small enough to be wrong about.
Treasury
5–15% · fixed income & liquidity
Cash, term deposits, government bonds and fixed income. Tailored to operational cash flows, seasonal patterns, and near-term commitments.
Five principles, seven commitments, and what each one costs us.
Five principles we refuse to compromise on, and seven commitments that follow from them. The full detail is on Why Larapinta Private.
Built for Australia's farming and regional families.
Farming wealth doesn't behave like wealth held in anything else. It's built out of livestock, water, seasons, and decades of not selling. There's more on how we look after farming family wealth, before and after a sale, and what wealth management for farmers looks like in practice.
Our name comes from the same country. The patience the portfolios are built on is the patience the work on the land already runs at.
Who We Serve →Capital strategy
When to acquire, when to consolidate, when to hold. Capital decisions aligned with the rhythm of the land and the needs of the family.
Diversification
Building a portfolio alongside the farming operation, so the family is less concentrated without selling country.
Structuring & risk
Trust and ownership structures, agricultural insurance, commodity risk, water rights.
Off-farm wealth
Superannuation, investment portfolios and income producing assets, looked after to the same standard as the country is.
For the families who built Australia.
We'd welcome the chance to sit down and listen.
Request an Introduction →Written when there's something worth saying.
Private Letter
On the season after this one
Pessimism wears the suit of wisdom. On why being long has quietly been the rational position all along.
June 2026
Private Letter
On the weight you don't have to carry
Markets ask families to react. On absorbing the noise so the family doesn't have to.
May 2026
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Private Letters, Position Papers and Investment Outlooks.
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