Founder
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Before founding Investors RouteMap
in 1998 our CEO, Nick Dewhirst spent more that a quarter of a century
in the City advising European institutional investors and individuals on
foreign markets. At different stages he has been a specialist in the British stock market,
mining shares, United States and Continental Europe, mainly Germany, but also Central
Europe and smaller companies generally. While employed at a succession of leading
investment banks (See below) he has
performed many front-line roles including fund management for private clients,
institutional equity sales, country analysis, investment strategy and the construction of
stock market indexes. His last positions were for Dresdner Bank as Head of Equity
Sales, London and with Kleinwort Benson as European SmallCap Coordinator. He has been rated as one of the top analysts on Continental European shares in several
surveys of British institutional investors (See
below). He speaks German well and
French badly.
He is a Fellow of the Securities Institute. Says Nick, "I have been very lucky, not just to live in exciting times, but also to have been where the action was - often, early and in the thick of it. I survived the worst post-war bear market in the developed world, that in Britain when shares fell 90% in real terms within two years in the early Seventies, specialised in gold when it was hot, tried my hand at futures when the pits in Chicago were new, broked US stocks through the fabulous Eighties, "discovered" Europe for myself before institutional investors arrived in 1983, specialised in German shares after the Wall fell and moved into Eastern Europe ahead of the crowd. That makes around two thirds of global stock market capitalisation which I have learnt from the bottom-up. Inflation and disinflation, bubbles and busts - I have advised investors through them all. What have I learnt ? The markets may be a random walk for some, but that has not been my experience - and I can show you. I can't trade to save my life, but when it comes to long-term investment, that's my game. I have made some appalling blunders, like being fully invested in equities when the financial tsunami struck in 2008, but Investors RouteMap has taught me that sticking to an objective, disciplined, top-down investment process can still enable the individual investor to beat all the professionals in the same game over the long term - and beat these experts by a large margin."
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