Alexander Maclin Cripps

Mr. Alexander M.
Cripps, CFA, is a Co-CIO & Senior Portfolio Manager at Wellington Shields Capital Management LLC and an Analyst at Wellington Shields & Co. LLC.
Mr. Cripps works to identify new equity investments for use across Wellington Shields’ separate account platform.
He collaborates with brokers and advisors on portfolio positioning.
He also works with clients in discretionary or advisory capacities to build portfolios to meet their unique risk and return requirements.
Since merging with Shields & Co. in 2009, Mr. Cripps has worked as a stock picker for, and eventually co-manager of the Wellington Shields Mutual Funds.
He joined H.G.
Wellington, predecessor firm to Wellington Shields, as an Analyst and Portfolio Manager in 2005.
As an equity generalist, he looked across sector and capitalizations to identify timely equity investments and published actionable investment ideas on a weekly basis.
He also worked with individual clients on a discretionary and advisory basis.
Prior to that, he was an Analyst and Portfolio Manager with Melhado, Flynn & Associates, Inc. and an analyst at a boutique mergers and acquisitions advisory firm.
He first worked in sales and business development in the pharmaceutical industry.
He received his BA Biology degree from Reed College.
He is also a member of the CFA Institute and New York Society of Security Analysts.
He obtained FINRA Licenses of Series 4, 7, 24, 66, 86, 87.