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Graham Bibby was born in Devon in the United Kingdom in 1954 and educated in England. After spending six years with Lloyds Scottish Finance he joined the Prudential Insurance Company in 1981 where he was promoted into the business to wealth management. On leaving the Prudential in 1984 he founded his own wealth management company. In 1986 he became a founding member of the UK Association of Financial Planners. In 1984 he joined the UK society of Technical Analyst which started him on a 25 year quest to find of “what makes market move”. Graham went on to become the Chairman of The Technical Analyst Society of Hong Kong and was awarded the distinguished honor of being one of only a few to ever be awarded the honorary lifetime membership Following the 1987 stock market crash and the recession of the early nineties it became increasingly difficult to earn a living in the United Kingdom. In 1991 Graham moved with his family to Hong Kong where he set up Richmond Asset Management. His partner in this venture was Mr David Thomas son of the Attorney General and step son of Baroness Lydia Durr a board member of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Graham became the founding member of the Hong Kong Securites Institute and was recently asked to be a trainer to investment practitioners as part of their training program.

Having bought out his partners and backers his company Richmond Asset Management thrives today in Hong Kong as a leading asset manager. More information can be found on the company through a Google web search of ‘Richmond Asset Management Hong Kong. Additionally putting ‘graham bibby richmond’ into Google Video will give links to extensive interviews with Graham which will indicate his extensive knowledge of financial markets. Graham enjoys the respect large corporate and individual investors and is a regular speaker at conferences throughout Asia In 1995 he moved his family to Western Australia while he ran a ‘back office’ for Richmond Asset Management while commuting across Asia. His son Nathanial Bibby attended Hale School in Perth Western Australia from 1994 and then went on to graduate at UWA in 2007. His daughter Camilla Bibby attended the Presbyterian Ladies College (PLC) – Perth, Western Australia and graduated at UWA from 2008. In 1998 he completed the building of his family home in Dalkeith Perth WA with the intension of moving to there permanently. With the break up of his marriage he returned to Hong Kong. In total he has spent 14 years in commuting to and from Australia and it is his ambition to live there permanently.

In 2000 Graham married Nan (Chomchanok Suthamma) and in 2001 they had a son George Bibby. Grahams company Richmond Asset Management www.richmondhk.com currently employs 12 People in Hong Kong is licensed by the Hong Kong Securities and exchange commission and has a loyal customer base of  ‘high net worth individuals and fund managers. Graham has his own successful fund brand www.optimizerfunds.com which can be utilized to raise funds for any chosen cause. These funds are recognized by the vast majority of UK offshore insurance and pension funds and can be sold as an inclusion in offshore wrap accounts. Since 2001 he identified key opportunities in Thailand in the resort island of Phuket where he has developed some seventy villas and has three sites in the process of development. He and his wife are the sole owners of the company which employs 150 people in Phuket and they enjoy the extensive respect of the Thai community for his work in developing the island. More information can be found on this company by looking at www.richmondth.com After extensive investigation Graham has identified key areas for investment in South Australia. He intends to bring in investments to help alleviate the shortage in residential and commercial property. Mount Barker, has been identified as a major growth area for commercial and residential property presenting the ideal opportunity for external investment from the currently prosperous Asian economies of Hong Kong and Singapore. Richmond Asset Management, of which Graham is sole proprietor, has set up a Guernsey registered fund as a specific investment vehicle for this purpose. The initial raising will be $12 million for Mount Barker re-zoning to commercial land, followed by a similar size fund for re zoning of land to residential. In the first year we see the prospect in these two areas alone of investment of $24 million increasing over time. Graham already has underway an extensive seminar program promoting the Adelaide and Grahams belief that it will over time become the richest state in Australia even overtaking Western Australia. Graham’s intention to help fund raise to bring extensive investments into Australia.