To reduce individual, family and organisational stress by growing individual's financial confidence and competence.
Money is only the start
While innergi's focus is to provide resources and tools to help people develop their knowledge of personal finance, we are committed to making a far greater difference than developing knowledge alone. We want to help our users experience a genuine reduction in financial stress, a reduction in financially related conflict, and increased personal competence and confidence when dealing with financial matters.
Keeping it real
Money is such a fundamental part of life - how do we eat or go places without it? Understanding money, and how to use it to your benefit is valuable knowledge, however, it is often taught about in a boring and disengaging way. Sure, finding a sexy way to teach you about income tax may be a challenge, nonetheless, we are committed to finding fun and engaging ways to teach you about money, while keeping it real.
Fair go
Having a "fair go" and giving people a "fair go" is important to us. We are
committed to being fair to our subscribers, fair to our clients, fair to our
partners, and fair to our people. When we look at developing our products,
services or business practices, we ask, "is this fair to all involved?"
To balance creativity and
stability
While we love innovation and creativity, we also believe that there is an
appropriate speed to execute change. To use an analogy, we make every effort to
hold onto the baby when throwing out the bath water, especially when
we are really excited by a new idea.
To
be response-able
innergi is focused on responding to the requests of our clients, members and the broader community. We welcome your ideas, feedback and suggestions. In fact, the bulk of innergi's product and service developments are a result of you, or someone just like you, asking for them.
The world is not a gift from our parents, but a loan from our children
We take the time to think about what we are going to leave behind for our children. When we think about this, we like the idea that innergi can contribute to fewer couples being in conflict around money, more people satisfied with their pay, and fewer people chasing money for money sakes. We like the idea that more people are engaged with their work, more people understand financial management, and more people take responsibility of their personal cashflow, risk management, investment and so on. In turn the broader society benefits from this growth in individual responsibility, leaving the world in better shape then when we entered it. Time will tell!
innergi's primary service is to develop and provide innovative yet robust financial education and engagement solutions.
Our clients include:
Professional advisers - such as financial planners and
accountants
Superannuation funds - including Industry Superannuation Funds
and Retail Superannuation funds
Employers - large private and government
employers, as well as small to medium business
Individuals - primarily
the Australian public, however, interest from overseas is growing
PRODUCTS
innergi's main product is the "financial knowledge centre".
The financial knowledge centre is an outstanding resource for education, inspiration and motivation on both technical and behavioural aspects of personal finance.
The knowledge centre contains videos, quizzes, articles, activities, learning modules, calculators, newsletters and many other educational and motivational tools.
The benefits to individuals of being a member of innergi
include:
- Improved financial knowledge, behaviours and attitudes
- Self-paced learning
- Clarity on financial issues
- Knowledge, motivation and inspiration
- Better relationships with family, advisers and at work
- Increased confidence
- Better judgments with regards to money and finances
- Increased savings, both in general and for retirement
- Reduced financial stress
- Personal understanding affirmation via the module quiz
- Increased satisfaction with work, career and pay.
For more information on the financial knowledge centre, send an email to info@innergi.com.au or call 1300 883 522.
innergi was born out of a passion to help people, and a frustration of the lack of quality and independent resources currently available.
innergi's co-founders, Matt Linnert and Robert Skinner, are two similar yet very different people.
In common, they were both frustrated with the limited amount of independent financial education and information available to those who were keen to further their knowledge on financial matters. And they were frustrated with the lack of clear information on how an individual could relate and influence their wealth creation.
The idea of innergi was born in December 2005 and since then there has been a lot of thought and energy gone into creating a solution that genuinely engages and educates our members around money.
We are committed to increasing the peace of mind and confidence of individuals, families and organisations. Professional and quality financial education is a powerful way to achieve this.
innergi is a provider of quality and innovative online financial education with an aim to influencing a generation's knowledge and experience of wealth creation and preservation.
About Robert Skinner (Co-Founder)
Robert is a full time director
of innergi. Prior to innergi, Robert ran a successful financial planning
business for over 6 years, and has been actively involved in the financial
services industry for over 16 years.
Robert has a Bachelor of Commerce from Newcastle University and a Diploma of Financial Planning. Robert is a member of the Financial Planning Assoc (FPA) and the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA).
Robert has worked in a variety of senior roles within the financial services industry, providing both technical and strategic advice to hundreds of financial advisers and their businesses, including some of Australia's most successful financial planning practices.
Robert has been the lecturer for Financial Planning at the Newcastle Graduate School of Management and has presented at conventions, to senior management groups and to FPA forums. Robert has also been featured in Asset Magazine as a top gun financial planner.
Robert is passionate about people understanding and making the most of their finances. He is excited about the information innergi brings to individuals, coupled with the independence from financial products.
About Matt Linnert (Co-Founder)
Matt Linnert holds a Bachelor of Education
degree, Mathematics major, a Diploma of Financial Planning, and is an
accredited MBTI practitioner.
In the education sector, Matt worked as a maths and IT teacher in Australia and the UK. After 5 years in education, Matt entered the financial services sector, working with three organisations, Ipac Securities, Hillross financial services and a smaller boutique firm, primarily in financial planning roles.
In 2003, Matt founded his first start up business which is called Linnerts. Linnerts develops and delivers innovative services which focus on the human behaviour and wealth creation dynamic.
Matt is an author and teacher who enjoys sharing his knowledge and insights, and helping his clients use this to their financial and commercial benefit. Matt is particularly interested in how people use their gifts and skills in a way that enables them to create the life they want.
Matt's desire to make his knowledge, insights and thought processes available
to more people has been a key motivator behind innergi.