Angus Geddes is the founder and CEO of Fat Prophets.
He has a wealth of experience acquired over more than two decades in both domestic and international financial markets. Aside from running the Fat Prophets group. Angus has broad investment responsibilities within the Funds Management division, which manages close to $100 million.
Angus's investment track record began in 1982 at the young age of 13. In 1986 he received a "highly commended" award from the New Zealand Chamber of Commerce for increasing an initial investment of $200 to $35,000 on the world stock markets.
During his career, Angus has worked as a money market dealer in New Zealand, a financial consultant in the United Kingdom and the United States. Moving to Australia in 1996, Angus worked for five years as a stockbroker at Bankers Trust and JB Were before co-founding Fat Prophets in June 2000.
Majoring in Economics, Angus completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree at Otago University, New Zealand in1990. He is also a member of the Securities Institute of Australia having qualified for a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment in 1999.
Angus is also a non executive director of Pie-face Holdings, one of Australia's fastest growing food franchises and Fitch Metals Engineering, a rapidly expanding industrial engineering and manufacturing company. Angus is also a director of the Australasian Investment Review, a fast growing online magazine with more than 35,000 subscribers.
Greg Smith
Greg is the Managing Director of Fat Prophets United Kingdom, with responsibilities that include leading the research team.
Greg qualified as a chartered accountant, and he comes to Fat Prophets with a broad experience of financial markets, having consulted with a number of companies in the banking and finance sector in the UK over a seven year period. Furthermore he has been an active private investor in the stock market for fifteen years, where he first began to apply fundamental analysis.
During his career, Greg was employed as an auditor by KPMG in New Zealand, and before joining Fat Prophets, he worked at Mellon Global Investments in London. Whilst at Mellon Greg managed and implemented a number of strategic initiatives within the investment management business.
Greg graduated with an Honours degree in Accounting and Finance from The University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1991. During his studies Greg was one of the University's leading scholars - he achieved a Grade "A" average, and received several awards for academic excellence from the Commerce Faculty. He is also a CFA charterholder.
Colin Whitehead
Colin joined Fat Prophets as an Equity Analyst in January 2007. Brought up on a diet of Teletext (the UK's pre-internet stock price service) Colin established a keen interest in financial markets from an early age. The Black Monday meltdown of October 1987 only served to spark this interest further. At this point, he had an inkling that price and value may be entirely different things - the seed was sown.
Taking an early interest in financial markets saw Colin eventually graduate from the University of the West of England with a degree in Accounting and Finance. From here, he set his sights on London, gaining experience with NatWest investments.
He then transferred to Sydney with State Street Bank and Trust Company, also gaining analytical experience through a stint with BNP Paribas.
Colin's commitment to furthering his knowledge continued in Australia where he spent 3 years dedicating himself to the Chartered Financial Analyst program. The early mornings and lost weekends spent studying paid off in 2005 with the award of the designation.
Colin subsequently joined the team at Fat Prophets, where he is able to continue studying the techniques of value investing legends, in addition to indulging his passion for the wider markets.