Personal Profiles

Fred Kerr
Partner Private Wealth Services

What are your main responsibilities?
Looking after high net worth individuals or private clients specialising in property tax and income tax – to minimise overall tax take. To advise clients on how to pass on their net worth to their next generation – ie: succession planning.

What is the most interesting thing about your job?
Problem solving.

What most prepared you for your current role?
Working with high caliber professionals over a long period of time.

What is the current most interesting thing happening in your field?
People who made money from the tiger economy are now looking to invest in other fields such as: property investments outside Ireland (eg: Europe/USA).

What was your best subject in school?
Maths.

What's your favourite saying/quotation?
To be, or not to be – that is the question.

How long go you spend commuting each day?
35 minutes each way.

Favourite form of relaxation?
Golf.

What is the best book you have ever read?
‘The Three Musketeers’ or anything by Alistair McClean.

What's your favourite film?
‘The Maltese Falcon’.

What's your favourite sporting moment?
Man U winning the European Cup – 1968.

What is your pet hate?
Inconsiderate people.

What's your ideal holiday?
St Tropez.

If you could go back in time, what year would you go back to and why?
Start over again and make the same mistakes!

If you could meet anyone in the world from any era who would it be? And why?
Ghengis Kahn – to see what made him tick – he’s had bad publicity over the years.

What has been your proudest moment?
The birth of my first son.

If you were not doing what you are doing now, what other job would you be in?
Architect.

What would you like your legacy to be?
To have mattered to somebody.