Jim Sloman
Jim Sloman has been in the US equity investment industry for too many years to count. Starting soon after college as a retail stockbroker in Vermont, his path included retail stock office management in Cambridge, MA and institutional trading positions in Boston, New York and London. His career culminated as a founding partner and board member of Numeric Investors, an institutional equity money manager that grew from $15mm AUM to over $2b when he left the firm after 9 years to manage his assets. He has done this since 1999.
Jim has a thirty year commitment to mentoring Boston youth at Squashbusters, Year-Up and at More Than Years, where he was an eleven year member of the board of directors. He is a member of the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement where he leads and takes courses and served on the admissions committee. Over the years, Jim was president of his university's student legislature, has led a successful not-for-profit's capital fund campaign and participated in two others, was a member of several professional organizations, has lived in one city and worked in another, twice, has been an advisor to a privately held financial management firm, has invested in several successful Boston restaurants, has evaluated lots of private investments and invested in several and finally, Jim is currently serving as a board member of a social club and is cultivating several gardens.
Fly fishing, swimming and walking trips, both in America and abroad are his avocations, being a husband, father and grandfather are his joys.
Jim is a deft, thoughtful, challenging character who keeps me ruminating and hones my arguments. A thoughtful, avid reader, he is a friend whose independent ideas and insights I value greatly, not least because he has experiences and perspectives that purposively destroy ideological cant. Finally i have someone who enjoys watching football, and many sports, as I do, with joy and appreciation, and not a twinge of remorse, a gardener and long distance swimming, he is a man who cares about people and equality.