Elevation Capital.

Elevation Capital Funds Management Limited is a Registered Financial Service Provider in New Zealand in accordance with the Financial Service Providers (Registration and Disputes Resolution) Act 2008 -- FSP# 1007386.

Elevation Capital is also licenced under the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 (FMCA) as a Manager of Registered Schemes.

The Elevation Capital Global Shares Fund is our award-winning retail funds management offering with an investment track record of 16+ years.

Elevation Capital’s founding philosophy has not changed since its inception. Should you wish to engage with a firm that is known globally for its research and commitment to tangibly align itself with investors / co-investors, please contact us.

FOUNDING PHILOSOPHY

Independent

Thinking

Is essential to long-term investment success. We are often contrarian and do not pay attention to index compositions when making investment decisions. We believe that when you’re several thousand miles away from Wall Street in a different nation, it’s easier to be independent and buy the things that other people are selling, and sell the things that other people are buying.

Common Sense

Investing

Common sense investing means we invest in companies, not stocks, and we invest in those that are simple and easy to understand—companies that don’t take any great leap of faith to know they’re going to keep doing what they’re doing. Common Sense is simply not that common in financial markets when one steps back from the crowd.

OFFERINGS

DIRECTORS

Christopher Swasbrook

Christopher Swasbrook is the Founder and a Director of Elevation Capital.

  • He is Co-Founder and Director of NZX-listed New Zealand Rural Land Company. He is also Chair of the Auckland Future Fund, a Director of Merx Funds Management Limited and Executive Chairman of McCashin’s Brewery.

  • Previously, he was Chair of NZX-listed Allied Farmers, Chair of NZX-listed Bethunes Investments (formerly Mowbray Collectables, now MOVe Logistics), Director of NZX-listed Satara Co-Operative Group, Chairman of unlisted investment company Bethunes Investments, Director of Ruapehu Alpine Lifts, and Director of SwimTastic, a large-scale learn-to-swim operator in New Zealand. 

  • Early in his career in financial markets, Mr Swasbrook became a foundation broker of the New Zealand Exchange (NZX) after being a full member of the New Zealand Stock Exchange (NZSE). He became Partner and Co-Head of Institutional Equities at Goldman Sachs JBWere (NZ) in 2003.

  • Mr Swasbrook has had many financial market highlights across his career, including the largest NZX Initial Public Offering (IPO) for a company with no operating assets at the time of the offering - the New Zealand Rural Land Company, which raised $75.0 million in December 2020. In 2017, he was a key player in the largest reverse listing transaction in the NZX’s history when NZX-listed Bethunes Investments (formerly Mowbray Collectables) acquired Transport Investments and TIL Logistics (now MOVe Logistics) in a $200 million transaction. He has also been involved in several activist investor/investment situations in New Zealand and Australia over his career. He is widely consulted and offers advice in such situations today. While his focus across public and private markets remains broad, he is a specialist in advising and forming investment vehicles to capitalise on specific investment opportunities.

  • Mr Swasbrook is currently a Board Member of the Financial Markets Authority (FMA), having previously served as a Member of the NZX Listing Subcommittee (2008-2023) and a Member of the New Zealand Markets Disciplinary Tribunal (2013-2023).

  • Since graduating from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Commerce (Economics) in 1996, he has undertaken Executive Education courses at Columbia University (New York), New York University (NYU), the London School of Economics (LSE) and the Harvard Kennedy School in Boston, Massachusetts. 

  • Born in Auckland, New Zealand, he has long supported business and arts communities. He is the Chair of The Museum of New Zealand - Te Papa Tongarewa, an Inaugural Member and current Chair of the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Advisory Board, and the Chair of The Helen Clark Foundation, a nonpartisan public and economic policy research institute.

Ian Pollard

Ian Pollard is a Non-Executive Director of Elevation Capital.

  • He is a seasoned executive and non-executive director with nearly 30 years of experience in the insurance and financial sectors. 

  • He is the founder of the Delta Group, an international MGA insurance business headquartered in founded in 2013 and established in 2024 with global ambitions.

  • Before founding Delta, Ian spent 15 years at AIG in various executive roles across the globe, including serving as the International Professional Liability & Cyber Head in New York, where he led a global portfolio worth approximately $1 billion GWP.

Tom Reeves

Tom Reeves is an Independent Director of Elevation Capital. 

  • Currently Director and Principal Consultant at Impac Services Limited and Director of Bethunes Investments Limited.

Sam Thackery

Sam Thackery is a Director of Elevation Capital and is employed as the Compliance Officer, Fund Administration Manager and Systems Engineer. 

  • He is a Qualified Financial Advisor (Financial Advice - DipBusStuds, Massey University).

  • Formerly with ASB Bank for 6+ years as a Lending and Banking Consultant.

  • He is also Founder and Director of Computable Limited.

INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME

Elevation Capital has offered a formal internship programme since 2011. This has seen internships offered to a range of students from universities around the world. An internship with Elevation Capital is based solely on individual merit and we encourage students to apply via the following link with an introductory letter, current CV and any research they may have undertaken on the broader capital markets or on historical events (this can be for academic purposes or personal use).  We also strongly encourage students to apply that are not undertaking a finance/economics specialisation as we believe history and social sciences are extremely applicable to our business as well. However, we will flag that we require a high standard of written and oral communication so please bear this in mind when writing the introductory letter (and any other communications) to us. We accept internship applications throughout the year and typically have one internship position in the December/January period each year.

View our current and historical interns below: