James Sym

James joined Goodhart in 2025. He has 18 years’ experience as an investor across a variety of geographies both long-only and long-short, predominantly focussing on long-only European Equities. James started his career at Cazenove where he launched his first fund, before Cazenove was acquired by Schroders where he ran additional European equity strategies, ultimately managing over £2.5bn of client’s capital. He left Schroders in 2020 to launch a European franchise at River Global, becoming appointed Head of Equities in 2022. As a partner at Goodhart, James is a portfolio manager for the European Strategy, as well as the Real Return Strategy alongside Alan Bartlett. James holds a master’s degree from Cambridge University in Natural Sciences, specialising in materials technology and mineral physics, and has completed the CFA examinations.