Crowd Funding with Simeon Burnett of Snowball Effect
Episode 8 of the Curious Kiwi Capitalist Podcast 28 January 2020 My guest for this show is Simeon Burnett of Snowball Effect, a crowd funding platform and private equity marketplace. We discuss the crowd funding and equity raising landscape. Snowball Effect tends to work in the post-earnings post start-up stage of companies rather than the […]
Venture Capital with Lance Wiggs
Episode 7 of the Curious Kiwi Capitalist Podcast 12th December 2019 My guest for this episode is Lance Wiggs, Manager of the Punakaiki Fund, a Venture Capital fund. We discuss the New Zealand venture capital landscape and how a venture capital firm operates. Lance takes a different approach to most VCs in how he has structured […]
Tax Reform including Capital Gains Tax with John Shewan
Episode 6 of the Curious Kiwi Capitalist Podcast 25 September 2019 My guest for this show is John Shewan—former chair of PWC, and serving Adjunct Professor of Victoria University and independent director. In this episode we discuss: Why the Capital Gains Tax (CGT) 2019 recommendation failed Lessons from tax reform through the decades including: the […]
Long-Term Private Equity with Ian Frame
Episode 5 of the Curious Kiwi Capitalist Podcast 13th September 2019 My guest for this show is Ian Frame, retired CEO of Rangatira Investments, a long-term private equity firm. In this episode we discuss what is a private equity firm, what’s their fees, investors and strategy the difference between classic private equity (PE) firms and […]
Entrepreneurship & Early Venture Capital in NZ with Richard Higham
Episode 4 of the Curious Kiwi Capitalist Podcast 27th August 2019 My guest for this show is Richard Higham. Richard is one of the top business academic practitioners in New Zealand history. He has not only experienced but researched and studied entrepreneurship. He has run his own firm, consulted to corporates about entrepreneurship, and saw […]
Search Funds in Australasia with Alexander Simmons
Episode 3 of the Curious Kiwi Capitalist Podcast 15th August 2019 My guest for this show is Alexander Simmons. Alex is the founder of Voyager Equity a search fund. Search funds are completely new to New Zealand with no fund yet launched but with some interest from Kiwi searchers overseas. In Australia they have gained […]
M&A and Business Sale Legal Process with David Quigg
Episode 2 of the Curious Kiwi Capitalist Podcast Show 9th August 2019 My guest for this show is David Quigg. David is the head of Mergers & Acquisitions at Quigg Partners a boutique Wellington law firm specialising in M&A and a few other specialist areas. In this show we’ll discuss M&A from a lawyer’s perspective […]
NZ Public Capital Markets with Sir Eion Edgar
Episode 1 of the Curious Kiwi Capitalist Podcast Show 4th August 2019 My guest for this show is Sir Eion Edgar KNZM. Sir Eion recently retired as Chairman of Forsyth Barr, a firm he was with for almost 50 years with the last 20 as Chairman. There are few people who know more about the […]
Curious Kiwi Capitalist Podcast Introduction
Episode 0. Introduction to the Curious Kiwi Capitalist Podcast 1st August 2019 The Curious Kiwi Capitalist podcast is about the New Zealand capital markets and the people in them including: asset allocation and portfolios private business capital structure business valuation M&A process behavioural finance capital allocators private equity venture capital alternative investments investment strategies and […]
