According to 2016 research conducted by Perpetual Guardian, 38 per cent of Kiwi adults don’t have a will, and apathy is the biggest reason people don’t get around to it.
M2 Coach Andrew Barnes: Beyond the Sausage Sizzle: Five Fundraising Tips For Kiwi Charities
Perpetual Guardian founder Andrew Barnes gives his tips for fundraising in New Zealand, the second most charitable country in the world. Read the full article here.
NZ Herald: Perpetual Guardian to list in $150m IPO
Perpetual Guardian, which embarked on a series of acquisitions over the past three years, plans to list its shares publicly by the end of 2016 in a $150 million initial public offering.
Andrew Barnes: Technology is an innovator
Perpetual Guardian founder Andrew Barnes reflects on his career and innovation in New Zealand.
M2 Coach Andrew Barnes: Active downtime, getting match-fit for business
Perpetual Guardian founder Andrew Barnes talks about the importance of active downtime in his latest M2 Coach column.
Local firm floats idea of national wills register
Perpetual Guardian is pushing to get backing for an online national registry which would allow lawyers to check if a deceased person has a will and help provide faster connections for finding it.
NBR: Andrew Barnes Appointed to Chair of Simply Payroll
The founder of New Zealand’s foremost provider of online Will services, Kōwhiri, is deepening his investment in local innovation by taking the role of chair of the board of Simply Payroll, the new mobile application for payroll. Andrew Barnes, founder of the leading trust company Perpetual Guardian and its parent company Complectus (which also owns several corporate trustees) has invested …
Andrew Barnes in NZ Management
Andrew Barnes, managing director of trustee company Perpetual Guardian, concedes he’s “more a leader than a manager”. He can now reasonably extend his credentials to include entrepreneur, given that he was a finalist in New Zealand’s 2015 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. Reg Birchfield talked to Barnes about his rise to the top of his adopted country’s …
Andrew Barnes on Breakfast TV1
Philanthropy New Zealand unveiled its Giving New Zealand report at a Who’s Who philanthropy event at Auckland’s Museum of Transport and Technology. It revealed a boom in people leaving money to charities in their wills, with a 29 per cent growth in the value of bequests to charities, up from $122 million in 2011 to $157m in 2014. Liz …
Philanthropy New Zealand unveiled its Giving New Zealand report
Giving from the grave is expanding rapidly, say Liz Gibbs, chief executive of Philanthropy New Zealand, and Andrew Barnes, chief executive of Perpetual Guardian. Philanthropy New Zealand unveiled its Giving New Zealand report at a Who’s Who philanthropy event at Auckland’s Museum of Transport and Technology on Wednesday. It revealed a boom in people leaving money to charities in their …