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Meet the Money Magazine team

Maria Bekiaris

Maria Bekiaris has been on Money's writing staff since 2001. She has a Bachelor of Business degree from the University of Technology Sydney, and joined the team after a two-year stint in the insurance industry.

She writes on a variety of financial topics including managed funds, insurance, consumer rights and mobile phone plans.

Majella Corrigan

Majella Corrigan has been a business and finance journalist for 20 years.

She started with a trade publication that focused on commercial and residential property, then moved onto The Australian Financial Review.

During her seven-year stint on the AFR she reported on the sharemarket, companies’ performances and commercial property, and lived in both Sydney and Melbourne.

She later became Deputy Editor of the business section of the Herald Sun, where she remained for nearly two years before moving to Western Australia.

She now lives in WA's Margaret River region which gives her access to good wine – which she never touches when writing.

Nicola Field

Nicola Field is a chartered accountant, who specialised in the area of tax and small business. Following a career change, Nicola spent several years teaching accounting, finance and business.

Nicola has been a contributing writer to Money Magazine for four years, and is currently our “Love and Money” feature writer. She has worked as a researcher on several of Paul Clitheroe’s books, and co-authored Paul’s latest book – Financial Snakes and Ladders.

Nicola lives in and works from the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales, where she shares a farm with her partner, her three children and a growing number of dogs and horses.

Peter Freeman

Peter Freeman is a former Managing Editor of The Australian Financial Review who has been writing on all aspects of investing for over 20 years. He helped launch the personal finance section of The Sydney Morning Herald and the Financial Review’s Smart Money section, and has been editor of both sections. More recently he was involved in the launch of Money Magazine. He is the magazine’s consulting editor as well as a writer for The Bulletin. His special areas of expertise are superannuation and tax.

Ross Greenwood

Ross Greenwood, for the past four years, has been the editor-in-chief of the weekly UK magazine Shares. He is one of the founders of Shares, which won the UK publishing industry's magazine launch of the year award in 2000. The magazine won three other major journalism and publishing awards. His television experience in the UK includes being a regular commentator on the BBC, CNN, Sky News and Bloomberg. He was a regular presenter of BBC Five Live's key business program, Wake up to Money.

In Australia, Ross was editor of Business Review Weekly (BRW), Personal Investor and The Age's money section. Ross was responsible for the creation of Shares magazine, of which he was managing editor. In television he was a presenter on Network 10's Healthy Wealthy and Wise, and was the finance presenter for Good Morning Australia. He also hosted finance programs for ABC radio.

Susan Hely

Susan Hely was associate editor of Personal Investor Magazine and editor of superannuation magazine, Superfunds. She is the author of a best selling financial guide, Women & Money. She has been a financial journalist with the Australian Financial Review and the Sydney Morning Herald.

Anthony O’Brien

Anthony O’Brien is a regular contributor to Money, the Australian Worker and industry journal Transport Today. He has also written for The Bulletin. He's also worked in communication roles at IBM, BT Australia and Link Telecommunications as well as in government and as a PR consultant. Anthony has a BA, and an MA in Political Economy from Macquarie University.

Anthony worked extensively with Paul Clitheroe on The Road to Wealth (published by Viking, 2001) and has contributed to updates of Paul's bestseller Making Money. He is a co-author of the Paul Clitheroe book, Make your Fortune by 40 (published by Viking, 2002).

Terry Ryder

Terry Ryder is the author of four books on residential real estate, including Real Estate Without Agents published on August 1, 2004.

A researcher and writer on real estate since 1982, Terry published Confessions of a Real Estate Agent in 1998, followed by Buyer Beware in 2001 and Property Smart in 2002.

The books draw on his experience in the 1980s and 1990s as Property Editor of The Courier-Mail in Brisbane, property correspondent to The Australian Financial Review and Business Queensland, and research and publicity consultant to developer and agency clients.

Today Terry writes real estate articles for national magazines, including Money.

He is regularly interviewed about real estate issues on radio stations around the nation and has appeared on TV programs such as 4 Corners, Today Tonight and A Current Affair.

Chris Walker

Chris is a senior writer with Money, and co-author, with Paul Clitheroe, of the best-selling Making Money and Penguin Pocket Money Series of personal finance books.

He is also the principal of Newport-based Barrenjoey Communications, a freelance writing and public relations consultancy.

Chris has a diverse background in media, marketing, real estate, travel and horticulture, and has a BA and MBA from Macquarie University.

Pam Walkley

Pam Walkley is a widely experienced finance journalist. She started her career at the Melbourne Age while studying for a commerce degree at Melbourne University.

Throughout her career Pam has specialised in business, investing and property, taking over as Editor of Australian Property News in 1984, at the same time as writing for BRW and Personal Investment magazines. In 1988 she moved to the Australian Financial Review as Property Editor and later become News Editor and Chief of Staff of the AFR, a position she held for about seven years, with a one-year break when she was national communications director for one of the world’s largest real estate consultants, Jones Lang LaSalle.

In early 1999 she moved to Australian Consolidated Press to launch Money Magazine, which quickly become Australia’s biggest-selling personal investment magazine. As well as editing Money, Pam writes regularly on real estate investing for The Bulletin.

Effie Zahos

Money’s deputy editor has had over 10 years experience in the finance industry. Starting from the ground up, as a graduate trainee for one of Australia’s major banks, she moved from corporate to TV in 1997, kick- starting her career in journalism as head researcher for Channel Nine’s successful Money Show. She now writes for Money and The Bulletin, specialising in consumer banking issues. Effie also regularly appears on Channel 9’s Mornings with Kerri-Anne as their personal finance editor.