PERSON: Ed Butowsky

Chapwood Investments

Founder & Managing Partner

Edward “Ed” Wayne Butowsky (born February 12, 1962) is an American financial advisor, author, commentator and managing partner of Chapwood Investments, LLC, a private wealth management advisory firm.

Butowsky was involved with a 2018 Fox News story alleging the murder of Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer Seth Rich was related to a leak of DNC information. In 2018 he was a co-defendant in a lawsuit filed by Rich’s family alleging that the report fueled conspiracy theories about Rich’s death and caused the family emotional distress. The suit was settled out of court, with an apology from Butowski to the Rich family.

Butowsky founded the private wealth management firm Chapwood Investments in 2005. He is currently a managing partner in Chapwood Investments and created the Chapwood Index. By 2013, he was managing investments for a hundred professional athletes. Butowsky started the celebrity and athlete investor group Clubhouse Investment Club with professional baseball player Torii Hunter. Butowsky was also a managing director at Bear Stearns.

Butowsky published the 2019 book Wealth Mismanagement: A Wall Street Insider On the Dirty Secrets of Financial Advisers and How to Protect Your Portfolio.

The Chapwood Index was created by Ed Butowsky to reflect the true cost-of-living increase in America. Updated and released twice a year, it reports the unadjusted actual cost and price fluctuation of the top 500 items on which Americans spend their after-tax dollars in the 50 largest cities in the United States.

Butowsky has also developed various investment tools and calculators, including The Chaptimizer, 8 Metrics, Chapvest, Portfolio Enhancer, Chip Score, and Side by Side Calculator. Butowsky founded the 1940 Act fund Paramount Access Advisors for hedge funds in 2012.

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