Martyn Ingram, the Founder of 20/80 LIMITED, is a former investment portfolio manager, with responsibility for multi-asset portfolios in the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, and the 2010s. He focused primarily on collective investment funds.

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After starting work in the financial services industry in 1976, by the mid-1980s he had started to specialise in investment management. Through until the mid-1990s he was a professional discretionary investment manager, mostly managing unit trust and investment portfolios, as well as life and pension funds, for private investors.

 

In 1996 he moved away from having direct contact with private investors and joined forces with some business colleages to set up an IMRO (Investment Management Regulatory Organisation) regulated business. Through that business, over the next 20 years, many major investment houses and a number of other investment specialist firms made use of his services in a variety of profesional capacities.

 

He was called to manage discretionary investment portfolios by an IFA that was establishing an investment management business ahead of the 2007-2008 financial services crisis, where he was able to shield discretionary investors from losses by moving assertively to near-cash positions, escaping the dramatic downfall in commercial property, equities and medium-to-long-dated fixed income.

 

Latterly, through until 2016 he managed Investor Visa Portfolios, investing directly into FTSE 100 stocks and Gilts. Then, after 40-years of working directly in the financial services industry, he set up 20/80 LIMITED as a specialist consultancy.

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Martyn held a variety of senior roles in business during his career that required regulatory approval. That changed when he set up 20/80 LIMITED, even though he continues to engage with many investment professionals.

 

Always Forward Looking

 

Every month for the last 15 years, Martyn has run an Investment Forum and he  continues to take an enthusiastic interest in the management of collective investment funds, in particular. Looking forward, he has ambition to continue working for at least the next 10 years, engaging with investment professionals and others who have an interest in the future of the investment management industry.