Jim Haskel

Jim joined Bridgewater in 2003 and currently serves as Head of Client Service after spending 18 years as a Senior Portfolio Strategist and continues to serve as Editor of the Bridgewater Daily Observations (where he pioneered the firm’s BDO podcasts which are now a regular staple of the BDO). He is a member of Bridgewater’s Operating Committee and Chairs its Commercial Committee. Jim is also a Partner at the firm and on the Partner’s Leadership Committee, which oversees the partnership. He has done so since 2018, when he was chosen as one of the firm’s six initial Seed Partners, tasked with building out all aspects of a Bridgewater partnership to help transition the firm from an iconic founder to its next phase as an institutional money management firm. He served on Bridgewater’s Operating Board of Directors from 2018 through 2024 as a Partner Director.

From 2001-2003, he was a Senior Investment Strategist to Goldman Sachs high net worth clients and helped oversee the creation of the Investment Strategy Group (ISG). From 1996-2001, Jim was an Emerging Markets Debt and Currency analyst and portfolio manager at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. From 1991 to 1994, Jim was Associate Economist at Caxton Associates, a macro hedge fund, as well as an Economics Researcher at the American Enterprise Institute, where he published numerous analytical pieces on international economic and financial topics in leading newspapers around the world. Jim received his MPP from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in 1996, and a BA from Franklin and Marshall College in 1990. He currently serves as Chair of the Board at Berkshire School in Sheffield, MA, a grade 9-12 preparatory school he attended and graduated from in 1986. He and his wife Annie and their three children reside in Westport, CT.

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