Artemis Monthly Distribution Fund I Inc

Fund manager biography

Jacob’s career in investment management began in 1998 at Copenhagen-based BankInvest, one of the largest independent fund managers in Scandinavia, where he was a portfolio manager on the Central and Eastern European/Russia Equity Unit Trust. In 2002 he joined Merrill Lynch’s global equity macro research department as vice president of pan-European equity strategy. He returned to managing money in 2005 when he joined Artemis. Jacob holds a BA and an MSc in Economics from the University of Copenhagen; and an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University (NYU), specialising in international economics and finance. During his time at NYU he was a teaching assistant under the internationally acclaimed economist, Professor Nouriel Roubini.

Fund manager biography

After a BA in Economics from the University of Sussex (1992) and a MSc in Economic History from the University of Oxford (1993), James joined Baillie Gifford as an analyst in the US equities team. He then moved to Morgan Grenfell as an analyst and, latterly, a manager of US equities before 13 years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he co-founded and later ran BAML’s global equity sales team. In 2013 James became a portfolio manager at JP Morgan, where he ran global equity income portfolios. He joined Artemis’ Global Income team in 2018. James is a CFA charterholder.