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Jeff James
VAM FUNDS, Heptagon Capital Limited
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Manager profile
Jeff James began his career with Lehman Brothers in 1990. From 1991 to 1997, he worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago as an analyst and joined Driehaus Capital Management in 1997 as a sector analyst, covering the information technology and energy sectors for the firm’s Small Cap Growth and Mid Cap Growth strategies. In 1998, he began managing the Driehaus Micro Cap Growth strategy. In 2006, he began managing the Driehaus Small Cap Growth strategy. In 2012, he began managing the Driehaus Small/Mid Cap Growth strategy. Mr James received his B.S. in Finance from Indiana University in 1990 and his MBA from DePaul University in 1995.
Total return for Jeff James
Manager career performance
Discrete calendar year performance : Jeff James

Manager career performance
Discrete performance
  0-12m 12-24m 24-36m 36-48m 48-60m 60-72m 72-84m 84-96m 96-108m 108-120m
Jeff James 2.2 15.6 5.3 -15.5 46.9 13.2 17.2 29.8 15.1 6.1
Peer Group Composite 0.5 12.7 4.5 -4.1 37.6 -4.8 9.4 15.4 16.8 15.3
Over / Under 1.7 2.9 0.8 -11.4 9.3 18.0 7.8 14.4 -1.7 -9.2
Performance vs peer group composite: Jeff James
How a manager matches up against their peers gives you some idea of how talented they are. Very few managers perform equally well in rising and falling markets, so knowing which type of market a manager is capable of performing well within is also important.
 
Overall markets
Up
Outperformed peer group composite
7 years
out of a possible 10
 
Overall markets
Up
Underperformed peer group composite
3 years
out of a possible 10
 
Rising markets
UpDown
Outperformed peer group composite
6 years
out of a possible 8
 
Falling markets
UpDown
Outperformed peer group composite
1 year
out of a possible 2
Funds currently managed
Fund Sole/Co-managed Sector Periods
VAM US Small Cap Growth Co-managed FO Equity - Small Cap USA since Mar 16 2001 to present
VAM US Micro Cap Growth Co-managed FO Equity - Small Cap USA since Jan 17 2003 to present
VAM US Mid Cap Growth Co-managed FO Equity - USA since Oct 01 2016 to present
Heptagon Driehaus US Micro Cap Equity Lead manager FO Equity - Small Cap USA since Dec 07 2016 to present
Funds managed previously
Fund Periods
VAM World Growth since May 01 2017 to Jun 01 2019
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