NZ Petroleum Conference speaker profile: William Buechler

Source: Ross Louthean www.nzresources.com

Buechler, who established Buechler Capital Asset Management and then launched the Kiwi-Pacific Fund to invest in Australasia and the South Pacific region, made headlines in 2009 when he described NZ as a country in the same stage as Norway before the emergence of the North Sea oil boom.

At the time he told Fairfax Media: "New Zealand is at the beginning of a country-changing event; the challenge is going to be to embrace the change and get it right.”

He also said at the time NZ should look at the example of Norway where that Scandinavian country treated oil proceeds and royalties as investment capital “and not revenue like Britain”.

Buechler, who has more than 30 years experience as an investment consultant, is a certified investment management analyst and has provided advice to significant corporate and public sector pension plans in the United States.

He is well known in the North American business world as a commentator and frequent contributor on both the CNBC and Bloomberg television networks, and is now familiar to the petroleum and energy circles in NZ through presentations and conferences and seminars in the past three years.

Also speaking at this years conference, Farouk Al-Kasim, President of Petrostream A.s. Norway

The Biennial New Zealand Petroleum Conference, this year at the SkyCity Convention Centre, will be held from September 19-22.

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