Management

The Fat Prophets Global Contrarian Fund Team consists of:

CIO Angus Geddes

Angus Geddes is Founder & CIO of Fat Prophets. Established in 2000, Fat Prophets has grown into a recognised provider of both independent research and investment portfolio management encompassing major global stock markets. Angus has a wealth of experience acquired over more than two decades in both domestic and international financial markets. Aside from running Fat Prophets, Angus has broad investment responsibilities within the wealth management division. Over the last nine years Angus has been responsible for the construction of a range of long only model portfolios investing in equities across global markets, each of which is measured against appropriate market indexes. Angus has also been closely involved in the management of Fat Prophets long only and trading accounts. The latter have broad mandates covering global equities, commodities, currencies and real property and make use of leverage and derivative instruments. 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.

Simon Wheatley

Simon has over 20 years of listed markets experience, having started out in real estate equity research in 1996, before heading real estate equity research teams for JB Were and Goldman Sachs from 1999. Simon was head of international equity research for Goldman Sachs JBWere (GSJBW) based in New York from 2005 where he was also broker dealer licencee of the US business, was a member of the Australian Investment Review Committee for Goldman Sachs Equity Research, and was a long term partner at GSJBW. Additionally he has had successful private business ventures, and most recently headed Real Estate Corporate Advisory for Australia and New Zealand for Goldman Sachs. Simon is a contractor to Fat Prophets Pty Ltd.