James Fletcher, CFA, is a professional portfolio manager with over 20 years of experience as a professional investor, managing a portfolio of over $1.5 billion dollars and with a successful track record of top quartile performance. He is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Ethos Investment Management, and previously was the Senior Portfolio Manager at APG Asset Management. From 2013 to 2016, he was the Lead Portfolio Manager at Kayne Anderson Rudnick’s EM Small Cap fund (ticker VIESX), a Morningstar 5-Star rated fund that was awarded 2015’s “Best Fund Product for High Net Worth Clients” by Private Asset Management.
James is also the founder of Young Investors Society, a global non-profit organization that teaches long-term fundamental investment concepts to high-school students all across the world. James has an undergraduate degree in Finance from Brigham Young University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He is currently also an adjunct Professor of Finance at Brigham Young University. He is fluent in Portuguese and proficient in Spanish and has lived in Brazil and Hong Kong.
He is the author of Everyone's An Investor.