Jim Haskel

Jim joined Bridgewater in 2003 and currently serves as Head of Client Service and one of three Partner Directors on Bridgewater’s Operating Board of Directors, where he serves on the Finance and Governance committees. 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.

From 2003-2020, Jim was Senior Portfolio Strategist, partnering with Bridgewater’s CIOs and senior researchers on all aspects of the firm’s market, economic, and portfolio structuring content, and communicated this content to the Bridgewater’s largest clients and the broader external world. He oversaw the Strategists and overall content from 2011-2018. In 2021, Jim became Editor of the Bridgewater Daily Observations, Bridgewater’s signature daily newsletter where he created the firm’s first publicly disseminated podcasts, a regular feature of the BDO today.

From 2001-2003, he was Senior Investment Strategist to Goldman Sachs high net worth clients and helped oversee the creation of the Investment Strategy Group (ISG). From1996-2001, Jim was an Emerging Markets Debt and Currency analyst and portfolio manager at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. From 1991 to 1994, Jim held two jobs that were related to each other. He as an 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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