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Mark Andrew Shipman born 16th September 1962 (age 55) Crayford, Kent, England

Mark Shipman is a highly successful speculator(1) who is listed along with legends such as Warren Buffett and George Soros, as one of Global Investor’s Top 100 Investment Experts(2). He has worked in the financial industry since 1979, initially for international investment banks in the City of London before leaving in 1990 to establish his own asset management business, ’Silver Knight Investment Management’, one of the UK’s first ever hedge funds(3). The following year he achieved personal success by winning the World Professional Futures Trading Championship(4)(5)(6) and by 1993 his company was ranked as one of the leading money managers in the world(7)(8)(9).

Shipman eventually retired from fund management to concentrate on managing his own money and nowadays, as well as continuing to personally participate in long-term investment trends, he consults to a select group of City institutions and high net-worth investors; is a sought after key-note conference speaker; has written numerous newspaper and magazine articles; and has made various guest appearances on the Sky News, CNBC, and RTE television channels and on BBC Radio(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16).

He is also the author of three international bestsellers, which have been translated into numerous foreign languages: “The Next Big Investment Boom” (published by Kogan Page in 2006), “Big Money Little Effort" (published by Kogan Page in 2008) and “EQ vs. IQ” (published by Amazon Books in 2014)(17)(18)(19).

Velocity Magazine (May/June 2008) GlobalInvestor.com/gurus (August 2007) Sunday Tribune (27 July 2008) Futures & Options World (May 1993) Futures Magazine (October 1992) Kentish Times (26th March 1992) Futures & Options World (December 1993) Futures Magazine (October 1994) Managed Account Reports (May 1994) contributor - Bloomberg Money (June 2006) contributor - Investors Chronicle (May-June 2006) Sky News (13 August 2008) RTE ‘The Late Late Show’ (20 April 2007) Keynote speaker - A Industria de Derivados em Portugal (1995) Keynote speaker - IX Investor Olympia, London (2006) Keynote speaker - IG Dublin Summit (2014 & 2015) ‘The Next Big Investment Boom’ published by Kogan Page (ISBN 0-7494-4577-7) ‘Big Money Little Effort’ published by Kogan Page (ISBN 978-0-7494-4943-8) ‘EQ vs. IQ’ published by Amazon Books USA (ISBN 978-1-4961-3911-5)