Stephen Parr
Author, Financial Adviser, Investor,
Speaker, World Traveller
Stephen is an author, investor, talented speaker and trainer,
and an experienced world traveller. His qualifications have
included: Certified Financial PlannerCM, Authorised Financial
Adviser, and Registered Professional Trustee.
Always an enterprising young man, Stephen began investing
in the New Zealand share market when he was only 16 and
purchased his first property at the age of 18.
Stephens’s first career was in forestry where he trained to
become a forest ranger and rural fire officer. Although his
career path changed over the years – from forest ranger, to
nurseryman and kiwifruit orchard developer – his focus on
share market and real estate investing remained constant.
Stephen became one of New Zealand’s first financial planners
shortly after his personal share broker offered him a job. In
late 1987 he started his own financial advisory company,
Harmer Parr & Associates Ltd. Before he sold the company
over 20 years later, it had achieved national recognition,
having been the first New Zealand company to achieve an
ISO certification for financial planning and investment advice
services. It was also a regional finalist for the inaugural
Financial Services Practice of the Year award.
More recently, Stephen has focused on helping people
achieve financial success through education. He founded
HighPoint Academy and through this, conducts a range of
seminars, courses and workshops within businesses and
for the general public. Through his 20 year track record
of conducting investment-related seminars and over 100
financial educational articles published in newspapers,
Stephen has assisted thousands of individuals to boost their
financial knowledge.
Among his many professional affiliations, Stephen has been
a member of regional and national committees, including the
chairman of a professional standards and ethics committee.
He is an experienced speaker and trainer and has also
organised conferences and public money shows.
conservation,
adventure
travel, community service
and philanthropy.
He has travelled through
more than 30 countries
including Sri Lanka, South
Africa, the United States, India, Scandinavia and Russia.
He and his wife Pamela have trekked through many of New
Zealand’s classic walks as well as mountain areas in South
America, Great Britain, Tibet and Nepal. Stephens’s own
favourite adventure experiences have taken him tall ship
sailing and to Antarctica and the North Pole.
His interest in mind development led to him becoming
qualified in meditation, and hypnotherapy and certified in
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). With this knowledge
he has led courses on self-empowerment and mind
development techniques.
His forest conservation work has been instrumental in
the preservation in perpetuity of hundreds of hectares of
privately owned native forest. Stephen serves as a Justice
of the Peace in his community and is a trustee of a number
of charitable trusts.
Stephen Parr is the international author of,
Take Charge Of Your Money Now – The
No. 1 DIY Financial Freedom Plan and he
is currently writing other titles such as
Aspiring Millionaire – A Young Person’s
Guide to Financial Freedom and Financial
Wisdom for Kids – A Parent’s Guide to
Bringing Up Money Smart Kids. He
is also the creator of a series of
educational seminars.
Stephen lives in the Bay of
Plenty, New Zealand, with
his wife Pamela.
Stephen has balanced his financial career with his
continuing interests in personal development, forest
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