One of the World’s Top 99 Greatest Investors

Sir Ron Brierley has been included in Swedish hedge fund manager Magnus Angenfelt’s book, The World’s 99 Greatest Investors, which will be released in Australia later this year.

The New Zealander is named alongside many well-known Americans including Daniel Loeb, Walter Schloss, Thomas Russo and the late John Templeton. As well as South African-born Kerr Neilson, founder of the $16 billion Platinum funds management group and Australian Robert Maple-Brown.

Wellington-born Brierley founded R. A. Brierley Investments (BIL) in March 1961 with no capital. By 1984 BIL was the largest company in New Zealand by market capitalisation, and in 1987 had 160,000 shareholders, with a stake in over 300 companies, including Paris department store Galleries Lafayette and Air New Zealand.