Treasury Presentation - Launch of the Investment Statement: VIRTUAL

Join the Treasury’s Secretary Iain Rennie for the launch of the Treasury’s 2025 Investment Statement.

Join us for the launch of the Treasury’s 2025 Investment Statement – one of our core stewardship reports which provides a comprehensive overview of the government’s balance sheet, its performance and how public assets and liabilities are being managed to support public finances now and into the future.

The event will feature a keynote address from Iain Rennie, Secretary for the Treasury, and a Q&A session joined with Struan Little.

It is the last of three fiscally-themed stewardship reports the Treasury is releasing in 2025. This, alongside the Long-Term Insights Briefing and Long-term Fiscal Statement are intended to support a sustained public discussion on long-term fiscal objectives to support high living standards for all New Zealanders.

About this event

This will be a hybrid event. Please use this site to register if you plan to attend it virtually (via MS Teams).

If you would like to attend it in person in Auckland (MinterEllisonRuddWatts, Level 22 PwC Tower, 15 Customs Street, Auckland), please use THIS LINK to register.

About the presenter

Iain Rennie was appointed Secretary and Chief Executive to the Treasury in November 2024.

From 2008 to 2016 Iain led the public service in the role of State Services Commissioner, and Deputy State Services Commissioner (2007–2008).

Between 2016 and 2024 Iain worked internationally advising national and state governments on public sector and economic reform.

Iain started his public service career at the Treasury in 1986 when he joined as an economic and financial analyst in the Budget and Macroeconomic branch. He was an economic advisor at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, on secondment from the Treasury, from 1990 to 1993. For 10 years Iain was a Treasury Deputy Secretary, overseeing the Budget and Macroeconomic Branch from 1997 to 2003 and Regulatory and Tax Policy from 2003 to 2007. Between November 2021 and November 2024, he was the Independent Chair, Financial Statements of Government Audit Committee, at the Treasury.

Iain holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours), majoring in economics, from Victoria University of Wellington. He was awarded the Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM) in 2017 for services to the state.

More information

Under the Public Finance Act 1989, the Treasury is required to produce an Investment Statement every three years.

Information on the Treasury’s stewardship reports can be found here: The Treasury’s stewardship reports | The Treasury New Zealand

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