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.
Alex Douglas
Alex is Chief Technical Analyst at Fat Prophets. He drew his first chart by hand in 1983, opening the door to a career in the financial markets that has focused heavily on technical analysis. In the early 1990s he worked as a foreign exchange broker with M.W. Marshall & Co and later as a trader on the floor of the Sydney Futures Exchange with BZW Futures. Finally he moved into a full-time analytical role.
In 1998 Alex joined MMS International, a division of Standard & Poor's. A year later he was transferred to Singapore to head up the technical analysis division for the Asia-Pacific region. By the time he left Singapore in 2003 Alex had taken on the additional role of Global Head of FX Technical Analysis.
While living in Singapore Alex co-founded and became the inaugural President of the Technical Analysts Society of Singapore. More recently, he held the position of President of the Australian Professional Technical Analysts and currently a board member and committee chair of the International Federation of Technical Analysts.
In addition to his role with Fat Prophets, Alex is a frequent guest speaker at seminars and conferences around the world. He has appeared frequently in the media, is a co-author of the book, "FX Trading", and is a director of Capital Markets Group (Australia).
Alex holds a Bachelor of Business degree, a Diploma in Technical Analysis and is a Certified Financial Technician (CFTe).
Paul Haddow
A veteran of the Australian Financial markets, Paul Haddow's career spans 17 years in the markets as a professional trader. Paul's track record of profitable trading and unique insight into markets brings additional depth to the Fat Prophets CFD Trading report.
Paul has spent 12 years trading derivatives and interest rates for professional institutions. He was Associate Director at Macquarie Bank, Vice President at Bankers Trust for 5 years and senior Trader for Westpac for another 5 years. During this time Paul gained an extensive understanding about the world's financial markets. In addition Paul proprietary trades his own account /capital and worked for one of the largest OTC derivatives brokers, Tullett Prebon Australia.
Paul has spent a career analysing markets taking risk and has made and lost money. His profitability over 17 years remains without query. His trading methods are well proven and diverse incorporating a strong technical emphasis to discretionary and systematic trading wrapped with a unique insight into the fundamental drivers of the world's financial markets. He is also the author of a trading book called "Chasing the Wind".
Paul holds a bachelor of Banking and Finance, Australian Financial Markets and SFE accreditation. He regularly lectures for FINSIA and AFMA and sits on the Advisory Board of FINSIA concerning the courses of Technical analysis, Futures markets and Interest Rate Risk Management.
Max McKegg
Max is a veteran of the Forex Market having earned his living from Forex since 1985. For the period from 1985 - 1993, Max headed the Bank of New Zealand's Technical Analysis Unit in Wellington (a subsidiary of National Australia Bank), where he was in charge of forecasting the global forex markets for BNZ's FX dealers around the world.
During this period, Max produced a Daily US Dollar Forecast on Reuters which gained a large international following. Always intending to work for himself, in 1993 Max was accepted by Reuters as a specialist data service provider on their global network, which he remains to this day, serving Bank institutional subscribers the world-over with his twice Daily FX Trading Forecasts of the Major Currencies as well as the Australasians.
Max holds a Master of Commerce (with Honours) from Auckland University.