James Hodgins

James Hodgins joined Stifel with 20+ years of institutional investment experience. Most recently he was the co-founder, President and CIO of Curvature Hedge Strategies, which grew from $1 MM to $475 MM in AUM over seven years and won several investment industry awards. Based largely upon their proprietary Reflexive Change Strategies, Curvatures’ risk adjusted returns were among the best of Canadian Hedge Funds for the better part of a decade.

Prior to Curvature, he was at an independent investment dealer as a Hedge Fund Strategist, where he worked closely with Sales, Trading and Research and developed an internal quantitative trading group as well as a proprietary Commodity trading strategy which was later implemented at Curvature.

James began his career at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan as a Senior Analyst and then Associate PM, and holds a CFA and an MBA in Finance from Simon School of Business, University of Rochester, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.