Don Christopher Email & Phone Number

Manhattan, Kansas

• Principal staff officer responsible for personnel management, administration, law and order, health Teacher Retirement System of Texas is one of the world's largest pension funds, with over $130 billion in total assets.
• Portfolio Manager on the Emerging Markets Equities team, which manages a $2 billion segment of the pension fund's $22 billion Global Best Ideas Portfolio.
• Additionally, I launched and presently manage the pension fund's Gold Fund since 2009

Junction City, Kansas

• Managed a team of 16 equity analysts that cover six different sectors in three geographic areas, the U.S., EAFE and Emerging Markets at Teacher Retirement System of Texas, one of the largest pension funds in the world.
• Launched (2009) and managed the Trust's Gold Fund.

Clay Center, Kansas

• Managed several country portfolios with combined assets between $2 billion and 2.5 billion.
• 12/03-10/06: managed portfolios in France (last value: $780m), Italy ($340m), Portugal ($47m), Spain ($370m) and Switzerland ($470m) which combined amounted to roughly $2 billion; 10/06-6/07: added UK ($2bn) and.
• Positive alpha overall, mostly during 2004, when I was top-performing PM due to substantial bet on interest rates falling via high-yielding stocks. Last outperformance due to underweighting UK financials and real.

Mcpherson, Kansas

• Senior Financial Analyst (Mexican media, industrial conglomerates, steel,mining and shipping companies)
• Covered (with junior analyst) all Mexican media stocks and major conglomerates, but also mining, shipping and rail companies.
• Directed and marketed report on Grupo México, Mexico's largest mining company, that led to a US$190m stock placement (largest trade in Latin America in 1997).
• Led team of analysts in production of After the Asian Fall, an in-depth assessment of the Asian Crisis' impact on many of Mexico's largest industries.
• Designed Mexican advertising market model outlined in Mexican Media, the broadest report on the media industry produced up to that time.
• Named by Institutional Investor as Number-Two Latin American Conglomerates Analyst (1996)

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Senior Financial Analyst (media and conglomerates) and Political Analyst
• Covered many of Mexico's largest and most complex companies (such as Telmex, Televisa, Grupo Carso, and Alfa), which combined represented half of the stock market's total capitalization.
• Continually marketed new financial and political research reports with investors in the United States and Europe.
• Named by Institutional Investor as Number-Two Mexican Media Analyst (1995)

Afin Casa De Bolsa (now Banorte), Mexico City, Mexico

Produced the Mexican Market Daily, a daily analysis of economic and stock market developments directed at international investors, and provided research support.