IPCC Report: Rod Oram on business laggards and leaders
This week, Vincent asks Rod Oram to explain the implications of the latest IPCC report for business. Does the stark reality set out in the report change what’s required of the business sector? Or does it simply reinforce what’s already happening? How exactly is business, here and overseas, responding to the need to decarbonise? And who are the leaders and laggards in this journey? Rod Oram, is a climate and business journalist and columnist at Newsroom.
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See Rod’s articles on Z Energy and the MSCI report here.
Unpacking the IPCC with Dr Victoria Hatton, Marc Daalder
Why has the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) –said human influence on climate is now unequivocable? Didn’t we already know that? And what impact will this report have in the run up to COP26? Vincent was joined by Marc Daalder, climate change reporter for Newsroom and Dr Victoria Hatton, Director for Sustainability and Climate Change for PWC.
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See Marc’s IPCC story for Newsroom
Read the Report here
NFTs and the NZ$45m Fluf World success with Brooke Howard-Smith, Janine Grainger, Aaron McDonald
Paul Spain, Brooke Howard-Smith (Non Fungible Labs), Janine Grainger (EasyCrypto), Aaron McDonald (Non Fungible Labs) discuss the current state of NFTs including NZ based Fluf World’s NZ$45m in sales.
Watch the livestream video replay of this episode on Paul Spain’s LinkedIn
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NZ Sales & Marketing Insider – Episode 16: Kevin Kenrick
Kevin Kenrick shares lessons learned through his storied career as a marketer and later executive leader at iconic New Zealand businesses including Lion, Telecom and TVNZ.
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The new era of farming with Melissa Clark-Reynolds
Due to lockdown shenanigans it’s been hard to put a show together this week. So we’re dipping into our archive from the last six months. I hope you the enjoy the interviews – and stay safe.
What future does sheep and beef farming have in a climate changed world? Serial entrepreneur and relentless optimist, Melissa Clark-Reynolds sits on the board of Beef & Lamb and sees a bright future for New Zealand farmers if the sector and government can get the settings right. Hint: it doesn’t involve pine trees. In a wide-ranging interview covering turtles, synthetic meat, Al Gore and of course Covid-19, Melissa shares her vision for a low-emissions, high-equity future.
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NZ Tech Podcast Live from Lockdown
Discussing latest in NZ and global tech news from lockdown with Craig Young (TUANZ) and Paul Spain.
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How’s Your Gear?
Former professional tour player and leading golf coach, Simon Thomas, talks about the latest in technology and the ways everything from new metal combinations to solid core golf balls might (or might not) improve your game. As the Director of a successful golf academy at St. Peter’s College in Cambridge, you’ll be surprised to learn just how many junior golfers have enrolled in his programme.
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Power to the People/ Ep 175 / Mark Pascall
Our core of self-worth starts from within, extends to our partner, then to our family, our wider family, then our place of work – it starts from inside, then moves outwards. Why then, do we look to big business. or worse, big Government, to be the solution our needs from the outside inwards? It’s idealistic for sure, but wouldn’t a stronger community foster the creation of wealth, care for the commons, and distribute resource more efficiently and in a way that’s aligned with the interest of the everyday investor?
Now as s a warm-up to this show, you may wish to check out what is a Stablecoin Ep 156 and what is De-centralised Finance Ep 120 and no, before you’re tempted to skip this one, It’s not actually about Bitcoin or anything too fringy today.
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If you know that growing wealth does not equal getting rich, then this is the episode for you – Today, it’s all about exploring the imbalance of the three core pillars of society, that of the community.
We’re going to hear how in Cannon’s Creek, which is about 22 kms north of Wellington. There’s a quiet experiment going on here which relies on technology that’s already transforming mainstream finance and has the potential to disrupt Government also.
Mark Pascall is my guest today – he heads up the Wellbeing Protocol. If you’d like to learn more or financially contribute, perhaps make a documentary even, reach out to Mark.
The book mentioned in the show is the The Third Pillar.
Traditional finance has a hard time coming to grips with the credible threat that De-centralised finance brings with it. Just like the monopoly money of today is being challenged by technology that came from a community, governance in and of itself, is the next space to be disrupted. Blockchain technology, within the next 5 years, will radically transform every part of our lives – ignoring it makes you subject to it – getting on board now, could just give you a seat at the table of the future. Or something like that.
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News of The Money-World / Ep 12 / Around the World in 30 mins
Welcome to a short fortnightly series in addition to the weekly show. In partnership with Koura Wealth, your digital KiwiSaver provider, The NZ Everyday Investor is proud to present, News of The Money-World, a show about what’s happening in the finance world and how that affects you, the everyday Kiwi.
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What is ‘Square’, why did they purchase AfterPay, and why is this potentially much bigger news than what you may initially think?
Are you down with CCP – is China just doing things (the communist way), that perhaps we should be doing also – and by we I mean the Government? The three pillars of society are significantly unbalanced – but here the imbalanced leg of Government is eating the head of corporations with a ferocity we haven’t seen before.
Jobs data is much stronger than what was initially expected – OMG, did all the financial engineering a la quantitative easing and artificially low interest rates actually work?!
Enjoy the show and PLEASE please, please, do not buy shares in Square because of what we covered today – do your own research outside of what we covered here.
NZ Sales & Marketing Insider – Episode 15: Jen Rolfe
In this week’s episode, Ben speaks to Jen Rolfe, founder of Rainger & Rolfe creative agency who busts quite a few myths about the creative process, marketing insights and the role of research.
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Investing in Climate Ventures – Rohan MacMahon and Dr Jez Weston
Climate Venture Capital Fund is a new venture investment fund that invests in, you guessed it, climate ventures. It’s the first of its kind in New Zealand and has just made its maiden investment, in Australian energy company MGA Thermal. Vincent is joined by two of the founders of the fund, Rohan MacMahon and Dr Jez Weston. Disclosure: Vincent works for this very fund as an advisor.
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About Climate Venture Capital Fund
Climate Venture Capital Fund is a new venture capital fund established by LWCM, the manager of the well-known tech VC, Punakaiki Fund. CVCF consists of a group of investors, scientists and business people who are committed to accelerating the transition to a low-emissions economy. The fund has more than 70 high-quality investment targets with potential to generate outsized returns and vast emission reductions. CVCF is based in Auckland and has a mandate to invest in emissions reduction technology across Australasia. Its mission is to take advantage of an entirely predictable revolution: the transition to a low emissions future.
About MGA Thermal
MGA Thermal is based in Newcastle, NSW and was founded in 2019. Its mission is to enable the shift to renewable energy by providing a new way to store energy that’s clean, economical, and scalable. The core technology is a newly invented type of thermal storage material, Miscibility Gap Alloys (MGA). These alloys can store a huge amount of energy as heat, in a safe and easy to use way.
The founders Erich Kisi and Alex Post are global experts in MGA materials after nearly a decade of research and development at the University of Newcastle. MGA was recently awarded an Accelerating Commercialisation Grant from the Australian Government Department of Industry, Innovation and Science. The grant contributed to its pilot manufacturing plant accommodated in Newcastle.
Kids + Money Smarts = Wealth / Ep 173
Today you’re going to hear from Kendall Flutey. Kendall is the co-founder of the EdTech start-up platform Banqer, a financial training business that works within the school system to deliver education in a gamified manner. We’re also hearing from Kris Ballantyne, the chief marketing officer at Partners Life a fast-growing, Kiwi-based life insurance company.
We’re talking about how private enterprises are working together to ensure the next generation has a deep, default, and durable attitude towards building wealth long term.
Let me ask you a question here though: In the absence of a default financial education program reaching your kids, would you be happy for them to receive guidance from sources in the business community?
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Would you trust a bank in delivering some education to your kids, a financial adviser, and insurance company, a KiwiSaver provider or other fund manager? Of course, we’d potentially prefer a source where there was no other incentives at play – BUT, I think having the ‘right’ incentive structures alone, isn’t enough to create good outcomes. I’m a believer that even in situations where the incentive structures behind some initiatives are skewed towards growing a private enterprise, or even just virtue signalling, good outcomes will still be created. That has to be a good thing right?
The purest of motivation is not a replacement for a lack of action.
I can think of a few great examples recently where the government is reluctant, or even incapable, of allowing private initiatives to fill gaps they clearly have. This is evident at the moment in areas of housing, alternative forms of money, and mental health especially. Either they accept they need a strong [gum]boot up the rear-end, or they step aside with some degree of humility and the let the experts have a go. Yes we do need Government, but the community can indeed solve some problems thank you very much!
In the area of financial education, I’m super encouraged to see the likes of the FMA, and the Commission for Financial Capability, really starting to infuse themselves in the market place. Still, there’s a place for for more participants who work in the finance space to organise themselves in a way that solves the problem also.
To learn more about how Banqer and Partners Life is working together, check out https://high.banqer.co/partners-life
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So, if you’re listening in right now and have thought about investing in the US share markets, well, Hatch has given us a special offer just for you… they’ll give you a $20 NZD top-up when you make an initial deposit into your Hatch account of $100NZD or more.
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If you would like to enquire around working with Darcy (financial adviser), you can schedule in a free 15 min conversation just click on this link