Directors
Jon McArthur
Jon is a Chartered Accountant with 20+ years experience in tax and accounting services, as well as holding Chief Financial Officer positions for a number of Australian-listed companies.
Mark Taylor
Mark Taylor CSM CFP is a director of Stature ARW and the owner of Stature Financial Group. He is an authorized representative of Hillross, a Certified Financial Planner and member of the Financial Planners Association. Mark has owned and operated his own practice as a Financial Planner since 1997.
Mark has worked in the financial services sector for 22 years. This includes 10 years experience in corporate superannuation and 4 years as a Business Relationship Manager for corporate superannuation clients.
Since establishing his own financial planning practice in March 1997, Mark and his handpicked team of financial industry professionals have successfully grown Stature Financial Group to a dynamic, customer focused and prosperous business. Stature Financial Group continues to provide tailored and innovative financial planning strategies and solutions to both corporations and individual
Consultants
Adrian Raftery
Adrian Raftery, aka Mr Taxman, MBA, B.Bus, FCA, CFP, F Fin, FTIA, MAICD has over 18 years experience in providing accounting services to small businesses and individuals.
He started as a cadet with Pannell Kerr Forster before gaining more exposure as a manager with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. He spent one year fulfilling a dream to work on the stock market as an option trader, before establishing ARW (now Stature ARW) in 1997. As well as being a consultant with Stature ARW Chartered Accountants, he is also CEO of accountantsRus, Australia's leading network of independent accountancy firms. Adrian was advanced to Fellowship with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in 2005 and is one of the youngest currently to hold this honour. Adrian is also a Certified Financial Planner, holds an MBA and specialises in business planning, financial planning and tax. Adrian holds a graduate diploma in financial planning and is an authorised representative of Australian Financial Services Ltd. For the past two years running, he has been named as one of Australia's Top 50 in AFR Personal Investor magazine's Masterclass for financial planners (2005-06 and 2006-07).
In his spare time, Adrian enjoys cricket and AFL. Adrian has played with the Australian Masters AFL team in International Rules test matches against Ireland in 2006 and again in 2008. In 2007, Adrian ran the New York marathon and was Australia's leading fundraiser for the National Heart Foundation.
Mr Taxman is regularly seen on TV and in the media giving his expert views. He is infamously known as the credit card whisperer. Mr Taxman also writes a regular money column answering readers' questions in Woman's Day.
Ian Hounslow
Ian Hounslow, MBA, B.Com, CA, has over 20 years experience in providing accounting and taxation services for small - medium sized private company groups of businesses.
Ian started as a cadet with Thomas Davis and Co and worked for PriceWaterhouseCoopers before working as a manager at Camphin Boston. He joined Stature ARW in 2002.
Ian is a Chartered Accountant and specialises in tax planning and business advice for privately owned family businesses.
In his spare time, Ian enjoys spending time with his wife and three small children, and is involved in his local church.