Christopher Tinker is a founding partner of Libra Investment Services, an FCA-regulated, independent, equity market focused, research company. With more than 30 years of experience in the Financial Services Industry, he began his career as an equity markets Economist with UBS Phillips & Drew in the City of London before moving onto research roles in fixed income, credit, currency and money markets and as an international equity strategist in London and Hong Kong for a range of International banks and investment banks including Standard Chartered, ING Barings and Deutsche Bank.
As well as writing and commenting on macro level issues, he has developed a range of stock level, quantitative valuation models for global equity markets which give him a unique insight into the dynamics of stock level measures of risk, valuation and expected return. He has written a number of white papers based upon the Apollo methodology and recently authored a breakthrough chapter on momentum as a Fundamental risk factor in the Wiley publication - Market Momentum theory and practice by Satchell & Grant- based upon Libra’s proprietary measure of momentum that forms a key part of the Smart Alpha strategy product. These proprietary models form the cornerstone of Libra’s award winning stock recommendation product and, when aggregated to market, sector or country level, provides insight and analysis of the top down situation “from the bottom up”. He is based in London and has a BA in Economics from Manchester University.