Next Monday 10 December, is our last weekly meeting for 2018. We would love to see you there and encourage those attending to wear at least one piece of Christmas attire if possible. The key-note speaker will be John Berry from Pathfinder Asset Management, who will be talking about a range of issues including:
- what investing responsibly means and why do it (interestingly it is millennials and women who are most engaged with it)
- global challenges that ethical investors need to consider (water scarcity, climate change etc)
- how to account for environmental, social and governance factors in investing
- whether "doing good" means your investment returns will be lower
- can engaging with companies change behaviour (Exxon Mobil is a great case study with shareholder activism last year)
As well as our key-note speaker, we will also have our Honorary Member Bishop Ross Bay giving the 5 Minute speech.
And we are still accepting children’s Christmas presents if you would like to make a donation, that will be forwarded onto the Auckland City Mission to distribute. And there are three remaining Christmas Puddings available for purchase at $20 each, which people can buy for themselves and/or to donate them, also to the Auckland City Mission.
A great night was had on Monday at the Auckland Bowling Club for our End of Year Bowls & BBQ Evening. Even though the outside lawns resembled watering holes due to
the wet weather, we were able to hold an indoor bowling competition. Congratulations to the winning team of Brett O’Riley, Robyn Walker, Craig Brown and Stewart Germann and runner-ups were Jim Johnston, Deirdre Johnston, Chris de Boer and Sue de Boer. Many thanks to those members who worked tirelessly behind the scenes, to ensure everyone had a great evening and great food – Kaye Shannon, Lindy Esslemont, Denis Black, Peter Lavelle, Monika Levinson and Jackie Hinchcliff.