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Grant Hackett

Group Chief Executive Officer, Generation Development Group

Search every verified Grant Hackett interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Grant Hackett, chief executive officer of Generation Development Group (GDG), has continued to discuss the company's growth and strategy in a series of podcast and conference appearances. He has described the firm's expansion in the investment bond market, noting an increase in market share and inflows, and has discussed the growth of its managed account business through its stake in research house Lonsec. Hackett has also commented on the financial advice industry, stating that more advisers are needed and expressing support for policies that would make it easier for banks and super funds to train new advisers. He has described investment bonds as an after-tax investment structure with a maximum tax rate of 30 percent, positioning them as an alternative for clients who have reached superannuation caps. In interviews, Hackett has frequently drawn parallels between his former swimming career and his business leadership, citing lessons in resilience, discipline, and preparation. He has recounted his experience at the 2004 Athens Olympics, where he competed with a partially collapsed lung, and described his silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics as a personal failure from which he learned to check his blind spots. He has also discussed the importance of "sweating the small stuff" in business and has spoken about the challenges of transitioning from sport to a corporate career, advising athletes to develop other skills and stay busy during the transition. Hackett has also participated in charity events, including the CEO Dare to Cure ice bath challenge to raise funds for the Children's Cancer Institute.

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“I think I mean there's obviously a few um you know, the big ones at the moment. AI is obviously a big talking point. So, making sure that you're utilizing AI, making sure that it's creating efficiency, productivity in your business. Um, and then getting to the point where actually increasing the customer experience and and really that's what you want to do is be able to leverage those those aspects. A lot of people a”

“The biggest deficiency and something that we're trying to support and help solve is getting more advisers into the industry. So, you know, lobbying, you know, politicians and government and obviously the key decision makers to make that pathway a little bit easier to see, you know, I would love to see the big banks and I would love to see super funds get right into financial advice because they were really good, part”

“I think first and foremost I'm genuine. So what I say I believe in and I put my own actions behind that. So I think that's first and foremost to any sort of level of success there needs to be genuiness and integrity attached to it otherwise people are never going to sign up for it. So that's the first part of the ingredient that you need to put in. When we went through COVID particularly in March and I basically run ”

“You've got to have your strategy and you've got to have your people. So you got to get alignment on that. So we look for a few things in business. You want to go where the tide's rising, right? So if there's structural tailwinds, legislative tailwinds, we're in financial services, so anything that's a disruptor in a sleepy space of financial services we like. But it's got to have a 20 to 30% minimum sort of five-year”

“I think we're in the AI bubble right now. I mean, if you probably look back five or six years ago, there was probably just a few businesses around the world seriously doing it, generating revenue off the back of AI. Now you look at it and you're seeing valuations of businesses that don't even have products in the billions of dollars. So, it is crazy. And so when you see that sort of stuff and this is, you know, I lea”

“We're quite fortunate. Firstly, we weren't caught up in any of that as a business and it's because we invest a lot back into our business whether it's our governance process, whether it's our technology stack, whether it's our cyber security. So, we're pretty fortunate that we've got a P&L to be able to support the risk side of the business to the extent that we need to. And look, a lot of those funds that you're all”

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