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BACKGROUND MATERIAL – March, 2008


Jamie McIntyre,
Founder and CEO,
21st Century Education




21st Century Education

21st Century Education is one of the largest and fastest growing, consumer financial education and services groups worldwide. It offers an innovative approach to wealth accumulation, focused primarily on empowering investors through education, and then offering them the supporting financial products and services, to get them actively investing on their journey to financial freedom.

The Group was founded in 1998 by Jamie McIntyre, with the dream to create a modern day education system to teach life and financial skills he believed should have been taught at school but weren't.

The concept of a modern education has proved so popular there has now been over 250,000 people educated worldwide from 16 different countries via 21st Century’s DVD programs, books, live seminars and home study courses, producing numerous millionaires and helping many people retire early. The program has received a Highly Commended honour from the Australian Achiever Awards.

Today the 21st Century Education employs nearly 100 staff and consists of over 20 independent companies including:

  • 21st Century Academy
    The 21st Century Academy is the primary division of the Group and provides financial education and empowerment home study courses in the form of personal software and books/DVD’s to the public. The $4,000 home study course includes two bi–annual Education for Life 4 day seminars.
  • 21st Century Finance
    21st Century Finance provides mortgages and personal loans to members of the 21st Century Academy. This is a support service to members that facilitates loans for property and share investments, as well as providing credit for additional education, if members want to pay monthly. 21st Century Finance holds a Mortgage Broking authority.
  • 21st Century Investor
    21st Century Investor is an investor newsletter focussing on off–market capital raisings. Members are offered below market pricing usually only offered to funds and larger investors.
  • 21st Century Property Direct
    21st Century Property Direct is a membership–based service that specialises in property investments. Members get access to significant discounts on properties recommended by 21st Century and are given access to finance and are mentored through the property investment process.
  • Pinnacle Capital Investments
    Pinnacle Capital Investments provides a platform for direct investment into some of Australia’s most exciting early stage small & medium sized businesses. It helps SME’s improve their fundraising and financing opportunities.
  • 21st Century Insurance
    21st Century Insurance Solutions provides members with insurance to protect themselves adequately before undertaking financial investments.
  • 21st Century Lifestyle Trader
    21st Century Lifestyle trader is a share trading education course and software program that gives members simple strategies and systems to trade the markets in 30 minutes per day. It is supported by a monthly newsletter and data feeds.
  • E–Minis Global
    E–Minis Global provides education courses on the strategies of day trading stock index futures.
  • 21st Century Accounting
    21st Century Accounting Services team of specialists assist 21st Century Investor clients to effectively establish the best asset protection and tax minimization strategies available to investors, through the use of company and trust structures, and self managed super funds.

Career history

Jamie McIntyre became a self–made millionaire in his twenties. He is an entrepreneur, investor, a sought after public speaker, author and climate change campaigner.

He founded the 21st Century Education group of companies, including the rapidly growing capital raising companies, E–minis Global, 21st Century Finance and 21st Century Property Direct. In founding the flagship company of the group, 21st Century Academy, he made it his mission to teach people life and financial skills that he believes people should have learnt at school.

Jamie has travelled the world meeting and learning from some of the very best word leaders, including Anthony Robbins (Unlimited Power), General Norman Schwarzkopf (Desert Storm), Paul Zane Piltzer (Unlimited Wealth), Jay Abrahams (Fortune 500 Marketing Consultant), Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad, Poor Dad) and politicians including former South African President FW De Klerk.

NOTES TO THE EDITORS:

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