Chris' primary focus is growing client capital in good times and protecting it in bad times. Chris believes that up to 80% of a portfolio's success is driven by macroeconomic forces. Chris explains that the biggest error we see investors make is owning reasonable, even good investments at the wrong time. It's not surprising that Chris has spent most of his career developing systems to understand and manage investment risk. Chris started in the industry in 1985. Chris accepted a US Bank executive training collegiate scholarship which provided comprehensive training while attending college. During this time, Chris was trained in US Bank's well known technique of "Evaluating Business Venture