Downtown Rotary meeting - 12 March 2019

Rotary Club of Downtown Auckland, Inc.

Weekly meeting - Tuesday 12/03/2019

Brian Gaynor - Milford Asset Management

Brian Gaynor’s career includes roles as a Partner and Head of Research at stockbrokers Jarden & Co. (which later became First NZ Capital), and a member of the NZ Stock Exchange. He is a founder of Milford Asset Management and was Portfolio Manager of the sector-leading Milford Active Growth Funds (Unit Trust and KiwiSaver) from their establishment in 2007 until April 2017. He is currently an Executive Director of Milford Asset Management, Head of Investments, and Chairman of Milford’s Investment Forum and its Private Equity Investment Committee.

Brian has also been a board member of a number of listed and public owned entities, including the Guardians of the NZ Superannuation Fund.

A highly-regarded company analyst and economic commentator with over 40 years’ experience in New Zealand's capital markets, Brian is well-known for his frequent radio and television appearances, and his weekly column in the NZ Herald over the past three decades.

Although the Government is a long way from confirming which, if any, of the recommendations of the Tax Working Group it might implement after the next general election, Brian will look at some elements of the proposals which appear to not have the intended effect of bringing “fairness” to the tax system, and which might have significant detrimental impacts on the country’s small businesses, large publicly owned companies, and housing and capital markets; and how that might impact the wider New Zealand economy.

Introducer: Simon Walton

Thanker: Andy Picot

Reception: Susanne Loesser, Philip Caughey, Michele Corso

Upcoming meetings:

19/03/2019

Professor Sally Rogers

Downtown Rotary Visiting Scholar

26/03/2019

Jaime Brown

NZ sign language

The mission to normalise NZ sign language