Christopher Kamykowski

Christopher Kamykowski is Managing Director of Strategy and Research at Moneta Group, a large St. Louis–based registered investment advisor, where he leads investment strategy, portfolio management, asset allocation, and manager research across the firm's 26+ advisor teams. He manages the day-to-day work of the investment team, develops model portfolios and investment policy, and provides monthly market observations and commentary to advisors and clients. He also serves on internal governance committees and collaborates with the firm's compliance, finance, operations, and other departments.

He brings more than 20 years of experience across investment management and institutional consulting. He began his career at NISA Investment Advisors in St. Louis, working within investment operations and on the portfolio management desk. He then moved into institutional consulting at Asset Consulting Group before joining Summit Strategies Group, a St. Louis institutional investment consulting firm founded in 1995. At Summit, his primary focus was fixed-income manager research, and he oversaw the firm's public-markets manager research effort. When Mercer acquired Summit Strategies Group (2018), he continued as a Principal in Manager Research at Mercer before moving to Moneta Group.

He holds a B.S.B.A. in Finance from Saint Louis University and an Advanced Management Certificate from Washington University in St. Louis. He is both a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder and a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ (CFP®, earned 2021). A native of Tennessee, he follows SEC/Tennessee football and coaches club soccer year-round.

• Role is manager selection and asset allocation, not startup investing. He evaluates and selects third-party investment managers and builds model portfolios; he does not write venture checks or lead seed rounds.
• Public-markets research emphasis. His career specialty is fixed-income manager research and oversight of public-markets (equity and fixed income) manager research.
• Top-down and data-driven. His published commentary emphasizes reading market momentum, leadership rotations, sentiment versus "hard data," Fed/rate policy, and macroeconomic trends to guide allocation decisions.
• Institutional discipline applied to private-client portfolios. He brings an institutional-consulting framework (manager due diligence, investment policy, risk analysis) to Moneta's advisor teams and clients.