Track Record

Career and Trading Background and Record

I have a Masters degree in Mathematics at Oxford University, England. I graduated in 1980.

1980 to 1984 I worked for a Life assurance company (Friends Provident)  and a pensions consultancy (Noble Lowndes) as a computer programmer and actuarial trainee. In 1984 I worked for a British Stockbroker as an analyst. This company was taken over by Chase Manhattan.

I was hired by CSFB in London in 1986 as a bond analyst. This developed additionally into arbitrage trading on the UK government bond desk. I also wrote a 400 page book on the UK government bond market which was published by CSFB and subsequently in hardback version in the US.

In 1989 I was recruited by J.P.Morgan to run their UK government bond desk (Sales and Trading). This operation was struggling at the time and they were considering closing it. We managed to stabilize the business and continue operations on a modestly profitable basis. In 1990, I was given the additional responsibility of running the bank's Sterling Fixed Income Investment Portfolio. Subsequently, I also joined the proprietary trading desk when it started in 1993, but left the UK desk to focus solely on position taking. During my time at J.P.Morgan I made substantial profits and was promoted to Managing Director.

In 1997 I resigned from the bank. My wife wanted to return to the US and I wanted to trade my own account.

In 2003 I started Chris Belchamber Investment Management LLC.

I started trading my own capital during 1998. I trade widely for my own account, including futures and options, on bonds, equities, currencies and commodities. This remains a significant focus, and I try to trade client accounts in line with the activity in my own account as much as possible. Fortunately, in recent years a very wider range of products has been introduced to securities markets. It is now possible to trade commodities and foreign exchange, for example, in a way that was not possible just a few years ago.

Conventionally, this was an area reserved for high wealth individuals, and hedge funds were created to provide a service for this additional diversity and risk. However, although there are a handful of very impressive hedge fund managers, these funds are not available to small investors, and in any case are often a high cost, high risk product, unsuitable for many investors.

There are very few highly qualified investment managers that provide a low risk, low cost, high return product for investors, that takes full account of the wide array of opportunities and diversity that is now available to clients. This is what I aim to produce for my clients. 

From 9/26/05 I am now recording all client returns with an independent third party software firm called Investigo. Here are the returns from a representative account. Client accounts have experienced much LOWER volatility than the S&P 500, yet have achieved HIGHER returns. These are time weighted rates of return calculated by Investigo.