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Neil F Chapman-Blench
Neil has had many careers including banker, investor, business builder, share trader and property owner. Across this diversified range of vocations there have been many highs and a few dramatic low...view moreNeil has had many careers including banker, investor, business builder, share trader and property owner. Across this diversified range of vocations there have been many highs and a few dramatic lows but the professions he is most proud of are author, financial educator and futurist.
Neil worked in the investment banking industry from 1979 to 1992. Initially starting at Samuel Montagu & Co he worked in the back up operations before moving up to the trading desk where he traded gold, currency markets and Eurobonds. The trading desk was an integral part of the investment management division, which then became a management buyout called MIM Britannia. Later on he focused on UK stocks and options. In 1985 he was head hunted to set up the non-US trading desks for Fidelity Investments, the world’s largest fund management company. In 1987 he was appointed a main board director of Fidelity International and also served on the boards of the stock broking subsidiary as well as the fund management companies.
In 1992 he left to set up his own business. For the next seven years he built up a fund management company that focused on developing bespoke property portfolios in the student housing market in Cardiff, Manchester, Nottingham and Lincoln. This grew to £10 million of property under management but the company was subsequently broken up following a partnership dispute.
Like most successful entrepreneurs Neil has had a few brushes with disaster and as a result of the fund management company breaking up and the partnership dispute he went into bankruptcy. He views this as one of the most valuable business lessons he has had over his career and it significantly shaped his subsequent success and business outlook.
After this Neil built up a company called Personal Risk Management Ltd with three partners. PRM specialised in background screening for banks, insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry and airline security with a focus on fraud, food and industrial terrorism. Neil was head of Operations and Finance controlling the international offices in the UK, India and Poland. This was sold to Kroll, the world’s largest private investigation company, in 2003. He worked for Kroll for two further years during the period of an earn out, which was successful. He left in 2005 and became a private property and stock market investor.
Parallel to this he built up a highly successful commercial property investment company in Katowice in Poland with four partners. This company was profitably sold in 2007.
Neil is an educational speaker for a number of wealth creation companies including Tigrent, the Rich Dad Organisation and Martin Roberts—Making Money in Property in property, business and shares. He has co-founded—The Wisdom of Wealth—an online financial education company, part of the Unlock the Future Inspirational Learning Group. He is the co-inspiration behind the Madness of Money online magazines which provides free information and data to stock market traders and investors.
Neil the author and co-author of a number of books and articles including—The Madness of Money, Trader Evolution and The Pathway Series.
To read more about Neil please visit his Web Sites at the following
links:
www.TheMadnessofMoney.com
www.TheMadnessofMoney.co.uk
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