Brian Gaynor was a 73 years old stockbroker, journalist, sharemarket analyst, and further co-founder of Milford Asset Management. Additionally, he was a long-time Herald and BusinessDesk columnist.

Everybody in the business world reads Gaynor. He has been contributing to the business world of New Zealand for over three decades. Gaynor resists foreign takeovers sticking his neck to fight bids when there appears to be a lot of money on the table.

He is also a well-established journalist and writer. Kiwis underestimating themselves and their companies was a constant theme in his writing. He always urged New Zealanders to acquire long-term investment horizons.

Brian has been in the middle, from selling Lion Nathan to separating Fletcher Challenge to trying to purchase Oakland International Airport and Infratil. He is blessed with extraordinary investigative ability as a writer and journalist.

Brian Gaynor passed away this morning after a brief unknown illness. He was a leading business commentator with a fantastic career, from an equity analyst to an entrepreneurial fund manager.

Although he was involved in structuring Milford into one of the country’s leading fund managers, Ireland-born Brian was perhaps best recognized for his influential and regular weekly columns.

Gaynor’s columnist career started in NBR with Shareholder’s Corner in the mid-1990s before shifting to the New Zealand Herald. He contributed two decades before his investment in the online startup BusinessDesk in 2019.

His loyal and committed attitude, backed up by consistent advocacy of a level playing field for investors, including his enthusiastic support of New Zealand capital markets, garnered many acclaims over the years.

New Zealand Business Commentator and Businessman Brian Gaynor indeed had an impressive net worth, thanks to his successful career as a stockbroker, stock market analyst, and long-time columnist for Herald and BusinessDesk.

Gaynor has been in the New Zealand business world for over 30 years. He has a highly excellent ability and memory of business events that few could match, which has always helped him as a journalist and writer.

His columns are all focused on building the most substantial arguments, listing all the related facts before concluding, usually in the last few paragraphs of the columns.

In his final column for the 2019 Herald, Gaynor stated his devotion to two core principles. The first never missed a deadline as he felt he might lose his job to any other writer, even if he was in this position, which is impossible.

Another core principle is never to use the words “I” and “I.” Gaynor was determined to distance his ego from the story and allow the facts to speak for themselves.