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Know your scheme's responsible entity is in trouble months before it collapses

For individual investors who put their own money into agricultural managed investment schemes — plantations, orchards and woodlots — where growers report the entity running the scheme going unresponsive and non-transparent only once something has already gone wrong.

Founding members get early access and a locked-in founding price.

Groveguard Concept preview

Your schemes

Monthly financial-health status for every agricultural MIS you hold units in.

View latest check
Schemes watched2
Status changes this year1
Months of history14
  • Southern Grove Olive TrustNo new filings or notices this month
    Green
  • Highland Walnut Growers SchemeAuditor noted a going-concern uncertainty in the latest lodged accounts
    Amber — review
  • Coastal Almond Fund (watchlist)Not currently held — added for research
    Green

Sound familiar?

What people are putting up with today

  • Major agricultural MIS collapses have already cost Australian growers billions, and a court ruled one group of investors would recover just 5% of the $2 billion they put in.

  • Growers in more recent scheme failures report the entity responsible for running their scheme has not been responsive or transparent in its dealings with them.

  • If a scheme does collapse, Australia's compensation scheme of last resort explicitly excludes managed investment schemes, so recovering anything currently means years of litigation most investors can't take on alone.

How Groveguard works

Groveguard is a monthly financial-health check for the agricultural MIS schemes an investor already holds units in, built from each scheme's own lodged accounts, auditor opinions and public notices rather than from what the responsible entity chooses to tell unit-holders. Each month it's a plain green, amber or red status and what changed — so a grower can see trouble building months or years before the kind of collapse that has already hit tens of thousands of Australian investors.

  1. 01

    Tell us which agricultural MIS scheme(s) you hold units in.

  2. 02

    Each month, we check that scheme's responsible entity against its lodged financial accounts, auditor opinions and public notices for signs of distress.

  3. 03

    You get a plain green, amber or red status and what changed — early warning while there's still time to act, not after the scheme has already failed.

In their words

What people are saying

Real quotes from public reviews and forums, with names removed. None are about Groveguard — it isn't available yet.

Grower investors across Australia have lost much if not all of their investments in the failed Managed Investment Schemes (MIS)
Grower-investor advocacy group

Founding access

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Groveguard is opening to a small group of founding members first.

  • Early access before public launch
  • A locked-in founding price
  • A direct say in what gets built

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