Richard De Lisle

Richard has been investing in stock markets since 1970, aged 13, and in the US market since 1980. He read Economics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge from 1976 until 1979 where he pooled his friends' grant cheques to collectively invest in the UK market. This enthusiasm for stock markets withered earlier interests in chess and bridge. Richard then travelled round America and entered the City as a US equity salesman for Merrill Lynch. In 1984, he moved to Dean Witter, where he was one of the leading US equity brokers of the 1980s. In 1991 he became managing director of Dean Witter’s six international offices. When Dean Witter merged with Morgan Stanley in 1997, he realised the opportunity to transfer to fund management, taking with him a dollar-based scholarship fund to Harvard University for Emmanuel College. He continues to manage this scholarship fund to the present day and in November 2004 was elected Bye-Fellow of the college. Some of the grant cheque investors of the 1970s are investors in the De Lisle Fund today.