Investments - Catholic Community Fund

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It’s a win-win

Welcome to fee-free accounts with competitive interest rates and fantastic personalised service. While your money earns interest for you, we put it to work for others.

Investing with the Catholic Community Fund makes everyone a winner.

We’re here for the long run.

Make sure you read our Financial Services Guide.

Community

Anyone can enjoy the benefits of the fund while simultaneously making a difference to the community. Your choice to invest with the fund helps those in our community who need a bit of extra support.

Diocese staff

The Maitland-Newcastle Diocese employs more than 4500 employees working in a variety of roles from support workers in our social services, to talented educators teaching some 19,000 students in 59 Catholic schools and eight early childcare centres.

Parishioners

Parishioners are the bedrock of our church. Your investment in the Catholic Community Fund helps us build pre-school, primary school and secondary school infrastructure that promotes collaborative learning, as well as supporting our pastoral mission and charitable work.

Students

Whatever your goals as a student, you can start saving now. By putting aside a little money each week, our competitive interest rates will magnify your savings and help make your dreams a reality.

Parents

As a parent you want the best for your child. A key priority for the Diocese is creating a wonderful educational experience for the 19,000 students enrolled in our 59 schools.

CDPF Limited, a company established by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, has indemnified the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle Catholic Development Fund for the Catholic Community Fund ABN 59 728 447 508 (Fund) against any liability arising out of a claim by investors in the Fund. In practice, this means your investment is backed by the assets of the Maitland-Newcastle Diocese. Money invested with the Fund is used to support the charitable works of the Catholic Church. This is achieved by providing a return on your investment that enables us to provide low-cost funding to assist Catholic organisations, including Catholic schools.

Accordingly, we are required by law to tell you that your investment with us is not comparable to those with banks, finance companies or fund managers.

The Fund is not regulated by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) nor has it been examined or approved by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) because we have been granted exemptions.

Under these exemptions, we are required by law to tell you that:

you will not receive the benefit of the financial claims scheme or the depositor protection provisions in the Banking Act 1959 (Cth);
investments that the Fund offers are not subject to the usual protections for investors under the Corporations Act (Cth) or regulation by ASIC;
there is a risk that you may not get any of your money back from us;
investments that the Fund offers are intended to attract investors whose main investment objective is to support our charitable work;
we have an identification statement which contains information about us which may be viewed at www.myccf.com.au/regulatory/
the Fund does not hold an Australian Financial Services Licence but the Fund has entered into an intermediary authorisation with CDFMN AFSL Limited ABN: 74 623 033 830, AFSL No. 504182 to issue and deal in debentures.