Our Story - 20+ years in the making

Paul Clitheroe, AM AM, B.A. (UNSW), SNF Fin, CFP Chairman

Paul Clitheroe is a founding director of leading financial planning firm ipac, and has been involved in the investment industry since he graduated from UNSW in the late 1970s. Paul has been a media commentator and conference speaker for more than 30 years, and is regarded as one of Australia's leading experts in the field of personal investment strategies and advice. From 1993 to 2002, Paul hosted the popular Channel 9 program Money and since 1999 has been the chairman and chief commentator of Money magazine. He currently writes for newspapers across Australia and presents Talking Money on radio nationally.

Effie Zahos Money Commentator & Director

Effie Zahos is one of Australia's leading personal finance commentators with 30 years of experience in consumer finance topics including banking, investing and property. Currently 9News Money Editor, Effie's previous roles include Chief Content Officer at InvestSMART, Editor-at-Large of Canstar and Editor of Money magazine, which she helped establish in 1999.

She is also the author of The Great $20 Adventure, A Real Girl's Guide to Money and Ditch the Debt and Get Rich.

Passionate about financial literacy, Effie sits on the board of directors for Ecstra, a not-for-profit organisation committed to building the financial capability of all Australians.

Effie holds a Bachelor of Economics Degree from the University of Queensland. You can follow Effie on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram or Facebook.

Alan Kohler, AM Founder-Eureka Report

Alan Kohler is one of Australia's most experienced business commentators. Alan has been a trusted source of investment advice to Australians for many years, and in 2005 he founded Eureka Report - Australia's #1 online investment report. Along with Robert Gottliebsen and Stephen Bartholomeusz, Alan also founded Business Spectator, the popular business news and commentary website now owned by News Corp. He has been a columnist and editor at the Australian Financial Review and The Age. Alan is the regular finance presenter on ABC News and producer of the popular nightly graph (or two), and writes a regular column for the ABC News website.

Ron Hodge B.Com, B.Econ, MSc. Info Tech, GAICD, SF FIN Managing Director

Ron has worked in financial services for over 25 years, including UBS in Singapore and Bell Commodities in Sydney and founded InvestSMART in 1999. Ron holds a Masters degree in Computer Science, Bachelor Degrees in Commerce and Economics, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investments and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Alastair Davidson B Ec (Hons), CA Head of Funds Management

Alastair has held executive positions in the banking and financial services industry for over 27 years in the UK, USA and Australia. Prior to joining InvestSMART in 2014, he held Director positions with Aurora Funds Limited, Challenger and Salomon Smith Barney. Alastair has an Honours degree in Economics from the University of St Andrews and is currently the Treasurer of the Centenary Institute of Medical Research, Chairman of the Investment Committee of the Centenary Institute Endowment Fund and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland.

Nathan Bell Head of Research & Portfolio Management

Nathan discovered value investing after spending nine years as an accountant, including five at Deutsche Bank that ended in 2006, and has been with Intelligent Investor ever since. He is a CFA charter holder and his experience has guided our strong performance since 2011.

Gaurav Sodhi Deputy Head of Research

Gaurav Sodhi is a keen boxer and a trained economist. His successful track record as a private investor and a lifelong fascination with rocks and minerals lead to him becoming Intelligent Investor’s resources analyst in 2009. As well as resources, Gaurav covers telecommunications and power infrastructure.

John Addis Editor

John Addis founded Intelligent Investor in 1998. Having returned as the editor of Intelligent Investor after selling the business in 2004, John now gets to indulge his favourite interests: the shape and form of words; investing psychology; the odd, fascinating and frustrating world of macroeconomics; and great stock opportunities.

Graham Witcomb Senior Analyst

Graham has a degree in Psychology from the University of Sydney and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder. He previously worked for one of the world’s most successful professional gamblers and joined the research team in early 2013 after spending several years in Canada completing the Chartered Financial Analyst program. Graham’s focus is on the healthcare, gambling and transport infrastructure sectors.

Nick Cummings Analyst

Nick is a style agnostic investor with a passion for running and annual reports. He has a degree in Finance from Westminster College (Utah, United States). Upon returning to Australia, he worked as an analyst focusing primarily on international businesses. He joined Intelligent Investor in 2022.

Alan Kohler, AM Founder-Eureka Report

Alan Kohler is one of Australia's most experienced business commentators. Alan has been a trusted source of investment advice to Australians for many years, and in 2005 he founded Eureka Report - Australia's #1 online investment report. Along with Robert Gottliebsen and Stephen Bartholomeusz, Alan also founded Business Spectator, the popular business news and commentary website now owned by News Corp. He has been a columnist and editor at the Australian Financial Review and The Age. Alan is the regular finance presenter on ABC News and producer of the popular nightly graph (or two), and writes a regular column for the ABC News website.

Evan Lucas M.Fin Dip. FS (FP) Behavioural Economist

Evan Lucas is a leading behavioural economist. Evan’s biggest learning from his time working in markets, investing and finance is that our individual behaviour towards money is always different and always changing which he believes explains the variations we get on global and domestic markets. He is the author of "Mind Over Money: Why Understanding Your Money Behaviour Will Improve Your Financial Freedom", published by Major Street in 2022. Evan is also a regular commentator on ABC News Breakfast, The Project, The Today Show, and more.

Elizabeth Moran Income Strategist

Elizabeth has worked in financial markets for more than 25 years in education, credit analysis and communication for retail and institutional banks and other financial institutions.

She is editorial director at Fixed Income News Australia and was previously director of education and research at FIIG Securities, specialising in bonds, hybrids and deposits. Earlier roles include a stint in London as a credit rating analyst for NatWest Markets and as an analyst for CBA in Melbourne. For more than seven years she had a regular column in The Australian.

Tim Treadgold Commodities Journalist

Tim Treadgold has been reporting on the Australian resources sector since the nickel boom of the late 1960s after a brief, but unspectacular, stint studying geology, which clashed with an opportunity to enter the world of journalism. Over the past 40 years, he has written for publications including AFR, Reuters, Forbes, Mining Journal and The West Australian.

He writes a fortnightly column for Eureka Report, with a special focus on mining and oil stocks, and tracks the perpetual motion game of supply chasing demand, whether of fossil fuels or of future-facing commodities.

Stephen Mayne ESG Columnist

A Walkley Award-winning business journalist and Australia's best known shareholder activist, Stephen Mayne has asked questions at more than 1000 AGMs since 1998, all facilitated by owning one of the world's biggest small share portfolios: 400+ holdings worth less than $80,000.

After nine years working on newspapers such as The Age and the Australian Financial Review and 18 months working for Jeff Kennett, he founded online newsletter Crikey.com in 2000. He's served two stints on the board of the Australian Shareholders' Association and served two terms as a councillor at the City of Manningham and one term at City of Melbourne.

Stephen campaigns broadly for transparency, good governance and accountability across the media, business and political sectors and writes a fortnightly column for Intelligent Investor. He also features on The Money Cafe podcast with Alan every second week and has conducted more than 20 interviews of public company chairs and CEOs for the group.