A CLASSIC KIWI SUCCESS STORY
Andrew Nicol is a high-profile investor and managing director of property investment firm Opes. He is also a classic Kiwi success story – from a working class background his passion, drive, and love of property has taken him from blue collar to blue chip.
As a young man in working class Waltham, Nicol wasn’t brought up surrounded by property investors. “My family had one house and a big mortgage,” he says.
“But although my financial literacy was very low, I always understood numbers.”
Nicol attended integrated school Middleton Grange, and his understanding of numbers led him to naturally assume that a degree in commerce was calling. But fate would lead
