Finance presenter Alan Kohler signs off for final time | ABC NEWS

Alan Kohler has walked out the door of the ABC's Melbourne studios after presenting his final finance report, ending a 31-year career with the public broadcaster.

With a successful career in print before moving to television, Kohler has been one of the most influential journalists Australia has ever produced, as a former editor of the Australian Financial Review and The Age and as an incisive columnist on all affairs financial.

"I love the ABC and I do really like going to the studio, but I think it's time to not have to do that," he confessed on the ABC's Business Daily podcast.

"I'm 74."

Reporting by chief business correspondent Ian Verrender

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