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Meet Your Adviser Matt
Helping people thrive through advice that’s personal, practical, and full of heart.
Matt Gibson
Founding Director, Principal Adviser
CFP® Professional, BSurv(Hons), GradDipFinPlan
Matt Gibson is the Founding Director and Principal Adviser (CFP®) at Discover Financial Partners, delivering expert, tailored financial planning in Melbourne.
Qualifications & Professional Memberships
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Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) — Financial Advice Association Australia
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Graduate Diploma in Financial Planning — FINSIA
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Bachelor of Surveying (Honours) — University of Newcastle
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Member, Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA)
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ASIC No. 328512
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Services
No matter where you are in life, the goal is always the same: fewer money worries, and total confidence that your hard work is actually working for you.
Private Wealth Management
Business Owners & Succession
Retirement & Drawdown Strategy
SMSF & Superannuation
Investment Strategy & Portfolio Construction
Estate & Intergenerational Planning
Who I Work With
If you’re navigating a life transition or simply want to feel more in control of your financial future, I’m here to help.
High net worth families protecting and growing wealth across generations
Business owners and founders building an enterprise with the goal to step away
Professionals who want clarity and structure across a complicated financial life
Retirees who want their income, lifestyle and legacy locked in, not left to chance
My Advice Philosophy
Most people have not had bad advice. They have had products dressed up as advice. I started Discover to give people the alternative: someone genuinely in their corner.
That is why we are privately owned, not aligned to any bank, and charge a simple fixed fee. It means the advice you get is the advice that is right for you, and nothing you are paying for is quietly steering the outcome. You always know exactly what you are paying and exactly why.
It is also why I have spent years building a team of specialists around every client, rather than making it all about me. Good advice should outlast any single adviser. When you work with Discover, the quality of the advice and the strength of the relationship are built to carry through decades, and across generations of your family.
"Great advice is not about the market or the product. It is about you, and the life you are trying to build."
My Career Journey
I have been advising Australians since 2003, which means I have guided clients through the global financial crisis, a pandemic, and every kind of market in between. For you, that matters in a simple way: you are not betting on a new adviser or an untested firm.
My first career was in surveying, where the whole job was getting the fundamentals right before you build anything on top. That discipline never left me. I moved into financial advice in 2003, and in 2008 I founded Discover Financial Partners to change what people could expect from an adviser: honest, clear, and firmly on their side.
Since then I have earned the Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) designation, the profession's highest standard, and grown Discover into a firm that clients trust with their most important decisions and, increasingly, with the next generation of their family.
Today I lead Discover as principal adviser and managing director. A large part of my focus now is developing the advisers and specialists who will look after our clients for the next twenty years, so the standard of advice you receive only gets better with time.
Adviser with Personality
Away from the office, most of my week revolves around family. I am married with two teenage daughters, which means a fair bit of it is spent as chief driver, negotiator and taxi service, and I would not have it any other way.
I am a runner and a swimmer, a keen home cook who loves feeding a crowd, and an enthusiast for good food and good wine. Ned, our schnauzer, keeps me company on the early runs, and I am always happiest with a bit of sunshine and the next trip on the calendar. I bring the same energy and curiosity to all of it that I bring to every client conversation.
What Matt's Clients Say About Him
Long-standing client, Melbourne
"We have been fortunate enough to have Discover helping and advising us with our financial affairs for over 10 years now. Their expertise and wisdom has meant that we are in a much better situation than if we had continued to work on our own without any guidance. They are now also assisting the next generation of our family. I would highly recommend Matthew as a financial adviser and only wish we had consulted him sooner."
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