#184: Fiona Mackenzie Ranked Seventh Most Impactful Public Investor Executive

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News of New Zealanders via Global Media From Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM | 05 October 2015 | #184 | New York Business | SWF Institute 05 October 2015 Fiona Mackenzie Ranked Seventh Most Impactful Public Investor Executive Fiona Mackenzie, Head of Investments New Zealand Superannuation Fund has been ranked seventh in The Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute’s ‘Public Investor 100′ that lists the most significant and impactful public investor executives of 2015. “These men and women… New Zealand | Daily Mail 05 October 2015 Golf’s Toughest Par 3 Possibly the world’s toughest par 3 – “a tiny green accessible only by helicopter nestled into mountainside overlooking the city of Queenstown” is 4,500ft high, writes Corey Charlton for The Daily Mail. Errand golf balls… New Zealand | Kurier 04 October 2015 Top Ten Safest Countries Of The World New Zealand has been ranked the safest country to travel to in a ranking by news portal ABC News Point. The ranking examined how people living in the respective countries thought about… Community/General | Austin Business Journal 04 October 2015 ACL Launch Auckland City Limits Festival “The Austin City Limits Festival now has a sibling in the southern hemisphere as organizers announced Wednesday the launch of Auckland City Limits in New Zealand”, writes… New Zealand | Wall Street Journal (The) 03 October 2015 New Zealand Ranked Highest for Experience in HSBC Expat Explorer Survey New Zealand has been ranked highest for experience and second overall in HSBC’s… Music | Guardian (The) 02 October 2015 Bret McKenzie Digs Himself Into a Big Hole Starring Bret McKenzie from Flight of the Conchords digging himself a massive, literal hole in the ground, the latest single by the New Zealand powerpop group Phoenix… Taste | London Evening Standard 02 October 2015 The Modern Pantry Is a Pleasure to Be In “Anna Hansen first made her mark in London as one of the cooks and co-owners, along with fellow New Zealander Peter Gordon, of Providores in Marylebone, the restaurant that… Fashion | Fashionista 02 October 2015 Claudia Li Makes NY Fashion Week Debut Before her official New York Fashion Week debut, New Zealand-born designer Claudia Li was unexpectedly peaceful – aside from the preshow jitters. “Everything was done two weeks… Film & TV | Variety Magazine 01 October 2015 American Cinematheque to Honour Cliff Curtis New Zealander Cliff Curtis, 47, who portrayed speed chess genius Genesis Potini in The Dark Horse, will be honoured by the American Cinematheque at a ceremony on 11… Z-Files | Atlas Obscura 01 October 2015 Real Life Castaway Tom Neale Never Lonely “The phrase “sole survivor” evokes scenes of violent disaster — a plane crash; an explosion in a mine; the eruption of a volcano whose lava destroys a city and all its… Community/General | Irish Times (The) 01 October 2015 An Irish Emigrant Living Life in Two Parts Lower Hutt asthma nurse educator Alice Paul tries to retain her identity as an Irish person, but says she is also “a new New Zealander eager to fit in.” Paul tells the… Media | TIME 30 September 2015 TIME Looks Back at 1997 Everest Cover Story The new movie Everest is all Hollywood, with big movie stars meant for a big IMAX screen. But the story it tells is very real. TIME magazine looks back at the images and… New Zealand | RP Online 30 September 2015 New Zealand’s Otago Beautiful in Fall New Zealand’s Otago has been featured in German magazine RP Online as one of ten destinations that are well worth a visit in fall. In fall Otago is even more beautiful and its… Taste | Good Food 30 September 2015 Trans-Tasman Flat White War of Origins Heats Up New Zealand and Australia have been in a cold war for decades over the origins of a meringue and marshmallow pie. But now a new front threatens to emerge over… Film & TV | Atlantic (The) 29 September 2015 After 40 Years Rocky Horror Has Become Mainstream The Rocky Horror Picture Show, co-written by New Zealand-based Richard O’Brien, has risen “from a shelved failure to a cult hit to a beloved… Haka | YouTube 29 September 2015 Haka Flash Mob by Jonah Lomu for Rugby World Cup 2015 Watch the rugby legend Jonah Lomu at the Covent Garden as he and the Ngāti Rānana London Māori Club and participants deliver a… Community/General | Stuff 29 September 2015 Plain Language Expert Lynda Harris Earns Award Plain language expert Lynda Harris (pictured centre) has won the Christine Mowat Plain Language Achievement Award at a conference in Ireland, the first New… Media | Advertising Age 29 September 2015 Antony Young Leaving Adland to Live on NZ Farm Media agency veteran Antony Young will trade in spreadsheets for orchards as he plots a move back to his native New Zealand with his wife and children to live… Sport General | Channel News Asia 28 September 2015 Linda Villumsen Wins Women’s World Time Trial Title New Zealander Linda Villumsen, 30, has won the women’s individual time-trial at the World Road Cycling Championships in Richmond, United… See all stories and an 10,500 story archive of international New Zealand news 2000-2015 at NZEDGE/MEDIA. 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