While Markets Panic, Stropro Thrives
The Australian investment platform built to benefit from volatility posts its best month ever — as Middle East tensions send markets into a spin, demand for structured investments surge.
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — Stropro, an Australian wealthtech platform specialising in structured investment, has recorded $13 million in new client funds in the first five business days of March 2026.
The result comes as escalating tensions in the Middle East have driven a sharp increase in global market volatility — conditions that, by design, make Stropro’s structured product offering more attractive to investors and their advisers.
What Is Driving the Growth?
1. Volatility Makes the Product More Attractive — By Design
Stropro’s income-generating and defined-return structured investments are priced using volatility as a key input. When market volatility rises, the premiums embedded in these financial products increase — resulting in higher returns for investors and the ability to build in greater defensive features.
To illustrate: a defensive income product priced in a stable market might return 6% per annum. The same structure priced during elevated volatility can return 10% or more, with equivalent or stronger downside protection.
“We built Stropro for exactly this type of market environment. When volatility rises, many investors retreat to cash — but that’s often when the best opportunities emerge. Structured investments allow advisers and investors to generate defined income, incorporate downside protection, and take advantage of elevated volatility. The situation in the Middle East is deeply concerning on a human level, but from an investment perspective, the pricing in structured products has become particularly attractive.”
— Anto Joseph, CEO, Stropro
2. A New Wave of Private Bankers and Independent Advisers
Stropro is seeing a growing pipeline of ex-private bankers and independent financial advisers joining the platform, many seeking to offer their high-net-worth clients access to bespoke investment strategies not typically available outside major institutions.
Demand from this cohort is being driven by HNW clients seeking alternatives to traditional equities and fixed income — particularly in the current environment. structured investments, historically accessible only through private banks, are now available through Stropro’s platform.
Recent adviser onboarding includes senior practitioners from Morgan Stanley and Citi, as well as firms including Canaccord Genuity, Solomons, PGW Financial Services, MPC Markets, and Glory House, Boston Global — collectively transacting hundreds of millions of dollars through the platform since joining.
3. Platform Integrations Lowering the Barrier to Access
Stropro has also expanded its platform integrations, adding Mason Stevens alongside its existing Netwealth and Praemium relationship. The move enables a broader universe of advisers to access structured investments without changing their existing workflows — removing one of the key friction points that historically slowed adviser adoption.
The company has further strengthened its national footprint with the appointment of Geoff Lane, formerly of Praemium, to cover Western Australia and South Australia. Lane brings more than 20 years of financial services experience.
About Stropro
Stropro is an Australian wealthtech platform that provides financial advisers and their wholesale and sophisticated clients with access to structured investment issued by leading global investment banks. Stropro’s offering spans income generation, capital preservation, growth, and tax-effective strategies. The platform is partnered with Praemium, Netwealth and Mason Stevens and is headquartered in Sydney.
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Anto Joseph
Stropro
0415 089 334
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Anto Joseph
Stropro
0415 089 334
www.stropro.com
