Visitors to the fourteenth floor of Morrison Kent House in Central Wellington are greeted by possibly the least auspicious entrance to a boutique fund manager imaginable.
A simple plastic logo consisting of plastic letters Ross Asset Management is glued to a pale wooden veneer. One of the letters is broken.
But behind the locked doors lie the remnants of something much more damaged than the name plate, with growing fear that the office was the nerve centre of what could turn out to be New Zealand’s largest ever Ponzi scheme.