Our Team

Vikash Jain, Vice President, Portfolio Management

Vikash founded and still leads the archerETF division of Bellwether Investment Management Inc.

Vikash brings over 15 years of experience in investment management to archerETF, with the majority of his career devoted to portfolio management. Prior to founding archerETF in 2008, Vikash spent 6 years with Northwater Capital, an institutional manager, where he managed $5 billion in structured portfolios including a $1.5 billion fund of equity futures and swaps overlaid with hedge funds.

Vikash draws on his years of executive-level experience in the investment profession in Canada and in Asia. Vikash started his career as a business journalist with Dow Jones News writing about the Indian financial markets and the heavy industry sector, with a special focus on energy companies. After a transfer to Singapore, Vikash focussed exclusively on the energy sector, eventually shifting to a role in developing and marketing financial options on energy products to oil companies.

Vikash is a graduate of the University of Toronto (Hons. BA 1991) and completed his Masters in Finance at the National University of Singapore (2001). He is a CFA charter holder (2002), a designation awarded by the CFA Institute in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. The CFA Institute is the global association of investment professionals that promotes the highest ethical standards and on-going education for investment managers. Vikash is registered as a Portfolio Manager with the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC). Vikash resides in Etobicoke with his wife, Sonali and two sons.