[OBITUARY] Farewell for the man with the 'formidable brain'
Perry worked as client manager of investment services at ASB at the turn of the millennium before moving on to AMP, Tower and then to the Reserve Bank, where he was manager of monetary policy analysis in the economics department.
Fred Dodds, chief executive of the Institute of Financial Advisers, worked with him for five years at Tower.
Dodds said he had a “great big bit of well-formed grey matter”. “I can remember him dismantling criticism of one of his decisions in the Roger way of well-thought-out analysis... that was when he gained total following of a diverse team of financial advisers. Not the easiest of groups, I can tell you.”
“He was unflappable, pensive, never emotional, you could never rattle him. He took time to know people, he was genuinely interested in you, not just about work but about you as a person.”
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