Annual reports and investments
ANNUAL REPORTS AND INVESTMENTS
The Auckland University of Technology Foundation is an independent charitable trust established in 1987.
The AUT Foundation was set up to manage donations to AUT (donations made in the USA are managed by Friends of AUT Incorporated). It is entrusted with the management and transparency of resources gifted for the benefit of the AUT community.
The AUT Foundation is proud to facilitate relationships between donors and their recipients, increasing opportunities available to both students and staff.
Manaakitanga 2024
View and download our 2024 report, which includes financial highlights and stories about some of AUT’s generosity-enabled initiatives.
Governance and Administration
The AUT Foundation is carefully governed to ensure that its activities are legitimate and its financial affairs are managed responsibly. Administration support is provided by the AUT Development Office and is overseen by a board of trustees.
The Board of Trustees has a fiduciary responsibility to ensure all donated funds are correctly managed, invested, and disbursed. The AUT Foundation is accountable to donors through:
- Annual financial statements
- Annual reports
Foundation Investments
The Auckland University of Technology Foundation (AUT Foundation) is an independent charitable trust established in 1987 (CC24794).
AUT Foundation is entrusted with management and transparency of resources gifted benefit of AUT students, staff and our community and was set up to manage donations to AUT through cash and in-kind means as well as an endowment of invested funds.
Our investments are reviewed on a regular basisto ensure we have met standards and expectations of socially responsible investment in the eyes of our stakeholders, in the New Zealand market. This due diligence will continue, including reviews to consider changing expectations of responsible investing.
We publish an annual list of the entities where AUT Foundation funds are invested:
- Abbott Laboratories
- Air New Zealand
- Alcon AG
- Alphabet
- ALS
- ASML Holding NV
- Auckland International Airport
- Boston Scientific Corp
- Cochlear
- Contact Energy
- EBOS Group
- Freightways Group
- Genesis Energy
- Goodman Group
- Infratil
- Intercontinental Exchange
- Kiwibank
- Kiwi Property Group
- Mainfreight
- Mercury NZ
- Meridian Energy
- Microsoft
- Napier Port Holdings
- New Zealand Local Government Funding
- Precinct Properties
- ResMed
- Ryman Healthcare
- Salesforce
- Skellerup Holdings
- Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Transpower New Zealand
- Vector
- Venia Services Group
- Veolia Environnemental SA
- Visa Incorporated
- Vulcan Steel
- Works Finance (NZ)
Investments as at 8 April 2025. AUT’s funds are held with Forsyth Barr.