With a track record of
market-changing innovations and the digitising of various industries, Andrew
Barnes identified the opportunity for the evolution of real estate in Australia
and was Chairman of realestate.com.au at the time of its IPO on the ASX.
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| Andrew Barnes |
Andrew has now triggered a
revolution of the entire New Zealand fiduciary and legal services industries,
and the transformation he is leading has positive implications both locally and
globally.
Andrew Barnes is the founder
of Perpetual Guardian, which he formed through the coming together of Perpetual
Trust and Guardian Trust. He is a director and the major shareholder of
Complectus Limited, which is the holding company for Perpetual Guardian, as
well as Covenant Trustees and Foundation Corporate Trust.
Under Andrew’s leadership,
Perpetual Guardian has moved away from financial advice and wealth management
and back to a pure fiduciary services model that engages with Kiwis and
provides services through a variety of platforms. As a keen philanthropist, Andrew
is also leading the expansion of the company’s long-standing philanthropy
service by creating vehicles that encourage Kiwis into long-term charitable
giving at a level they can afford.
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| Andrew Barnes |
Andrew was previously a
director and founder of Just Wills Holdings Limited, a UK-based will writing
and estate planning business. Before that he was CEO of Bestinvest, a
US$5.7billion, UK-based investment management and advisory company, leading the
sale to private capital in 2007, and was managing director of Australian Wealth
Management Limited, a major Australian wealth management and trustee business
that he led to IPO in 2005.
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| Andrew Barnes |
Andrew holds an MA from
Selwyn College, Cambridge and an ACIB (UK), and has attended the Program for
Management Development at Harvard Business School.
