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Ed Butowsky is an internationally recognized expert in the investment wealth management industry. Butowsky has been in the financial services industry for over 22 years. Ed started his career with Morgan Stanley and was a Senior Vice President in private wealth management. In his 18 years at Morgan Stanley, he was the firm’s top producer nationally as well as the first advisor to surpass one billion dollars in assets under management. He was also recognized as a member of both the Chairman’s Club and the Equity Club, a distinction reserved for only the top advisors at the Morgan Stanley.

Through his work with professional athletes, Butowsky was recently featured in the Sports Illustrated article, “How (and Why) Athletes Go Broke.” This article to date is the most popular article in Sports Illustrated history. He is also a frequent guest on CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox Business News, FOX News Channel, and Bloomberg TV. Butowsky is often seen on “Varney and Co.”, “Willis Report”, “America’s News HQ” as well as “Taking Stock” with Pimm Fox. Ed is also regularly heard on radio shows around the country such as “Mad Dog Radio” and “Bloomberg Radio” discussing wealth management, economics and other subjects that are of interest and timely related to the finance/investments world. Most recently, Ed was recently featured as one of seven financial coaches/experts in the first of its kind online reality series, “The Invested Life”, was a nine month series featuring real people facing today’s most common money concerns and their journey to taking control of their finances.

Ed has lectured at Yale University, NYU Stern School of Business, and SMU Cox School of Business and speaks around the country to financial advisors on how to properly manage portfolios. Butowsky is also the originator of the CHIP score. The CHIP score is the first metric designed to properly and effectively evaluate and score a portfolio’s strength based on all elements that attribute to portfolio performance; rate of return, risk, inflation, taxes, management fees and investment fees.

Butowsky launched Chapwood Investments, LLC in 2005, a private wealth management advisory firm focusing on providing comprehensive financial counseling and investment advice to wealthy families and individuals.

Recognizing the need for high-quality alternative investments in the Accredited Investor market, Ed’s passion for portfolio management lead him to launch Paramount Access Advisors, LLC. A new and unique alternative investment management firm designed to work with RIAs (registered investment advisors) and broker dealers around the country, providing access to investments previously unavailable to most individual investors.

Ed is a well-respected member of the Plano/Dallas community. He is an avid tennis and golf player and resides with his family in Plano, Texas.

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JPMorgan Chase Loses $2 Billion In Bad Hedging Trade

on May 13, 2012 in Fox News, Media Center by admin | No Comments »
JPMorgan Chase Loses $2 Billion In Bad Hedging Trade There is some new fallout from the nations largest bank who’s already had its stellar credit rating lowered after JP Morgan Chase, reportedly now under federal investigation, admits it has lost $2 Billion from bad trades in just the past six weeks. Critics are saying that its proof that big banks still do not understand the risks their...

JP Morgan’s $2B Loss Causes More Worry In Banking Industry

on May 13, 2012 in Fox Business, Media Center by admin | No Comments »
JP Morgan's $2B Loss Causes More Worry In Banking Industry Friday started off as a down day and the reason for that was the announcement by JP Morgan Chase that they are going to loose $2 billion dollars maybe more because of bad trades out of their London office. Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JP Morgan Chase, stepped up and took responsibility stating that the bank made a mistake. As a result the...

Congress Opposing Obama Plan To Ban “Buy American”

on May 06, 2012 in Fox News, Media Center by admin | No Comments »
Congress Opposing Obama Plan To Ban "Buy American" President Obama says that reviving American manufacturing is the key to our economic recovery, there are those in Congress that are saying no to a plan by the administration that would eliminate the “buy american” policy in federal contracts. A group of 69 lawmakers sent the President a letter urging him to reconsider the move. ...

Are Strong Profits & Low Interest Rates Covering Up Economic Troubles?

on May 06, 2012 in Fox Business, Media Center by admin | No Comments »
Are Strong Profits & Low Interest Rates Covering Up Economic Troubles? Many investors look at the current economic conditions and wonder if this may be an opportunity to stay on the sidelines when it comes time to invest in the stock market. Ed Butowsky, wealth manager, financial advisor, and managing partner of Chapwood Investment Management, joins Fox Business’ Varney & Company to examine the question...

Q&A: Ed Butowsky Gears Up To Launch Fund Of Hedge Funds | FINalternatives

on Apr 30, 2012 in Articles by admin | No Comments »
Ed Butowsky has taken a new tact to offering alternative investments to the public.  While the economy and the world along side has changed quite a bit in the last decade so have the correlation of assets for investment vehicles.   Ed’s new venture, Paramount Access Advisors, is set to launch on May 1st a 1940 Act registered fund of...

Taxpayers Lost Over A Billion Dollars On The Chrysler Bailout

on Apr 29, 2012 in Fox Business, Media Center by admin | No Comments »
Taxpayers Lost Over A Billion Dollars On The Chrysler Bailout Do we need more proof that bailouts are raw deal? While Chrysler participated in the bailouts they are sitting on a lot of money now having posted strong gains this past quarter. Now as Chrysler financially is on the rise the company is looking to reimburse labor unions, but what about the tax payers – when do we get that money? ...

Paying Your Fair Share Of Taxes

on Apr 26, 2012 in Fox Business, Media Center by admin | No Comments »
Paying Your Fair Share Of Taxes Most of Hollywood is in President Obama’s camp, but not former Saturday Night Live star Jon Lovitz. In a recent media recording he rants about his tax burden with Hollywood director Kevin Smith. Jon Lovitz: If I make a dollar, and out of every dollar, I’m taxed 50, half of 50 cents, I have to give ins’t that like enough? ...

The Risks Associated With Self-Directed IRAs

on Apr 23, 2012 in Fox News, Media Center by admin | No Comments »
The Risks Associated With Self-Directed IRAs Have you checked your returns on your IRA or 401k statements? You could be disappointed these days. While many may be scratching their heads trying to figure out what the problem is, many are turning to self directed IRAs hoping to find alternative ways to earn a little bit more, make up for the losses they have seen, or maybe to just...

Obama Wants To Crack Down On Oil Trading

on Apr 19, 2012 in Fox Business, Media Center by admin | 1 Comment »
Obama Wants To Crack Down On Oil Trading President Obama is targeting oil speculators, but are they the problem. Moreover, President Obama is saying that he is going to make it more expensive to speculate in the oil market. While this action may take some speculators out of the oil market, will it help reduce the price of oil and ultimately gas at the pump for consumers? Ed...

Tax Time Sparking New Fears Of Massive Tax Hit To Come

on Apr 17, 2012 in Fox News, Media Center by admin | No Comments »
Tax Time Sparking New Fears Of Massive Tax Hit To Come This weekend was tax filing time for millions of Americans and if you think your tax hit is bad now wait until a year from now when those Bush Tax cuts could all be gone. The payroll tax cuts will most certainly be gone, and a whole new taxes will be on. Including a big tax that no one has been talking about when you sell your house to pay...

About Ed

Ed Butowsky is a nationally-recognized expert in investment management. Butowsky has been in the financial services industry for over 22 years. He was previously a Senior Vice President at Morgan Stanley and a Managing Director ... More »

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Ed Butowsky, Managing Partner
Chapwood Capital Investment Management, LLC
Website: www.chapwoodinvestments.com
Email: ed@chapwoodinvestments.com
Phone: (972) 865-2225