Jonathon Mershimer

Jonathon Mershimer is Assistant Portfolio Manager at Driehaus Capital Management LLC in Chicago, specializing in emerging markets macro, industrials, and financial sector research. Currently, he provides in-depth macro analysis, generates investment ideas, and makes buy/sell recommendations leveraged across Driehaus' Emerging Markets strategies, with a direct portfolio management role covering multi-asset trades including local and external fixed income, currencies, and interest rates.

His career spans fixed income and multi-asset expertise, previously serving as Portfolio Manager—Fixed Income at Dimensional Fund Advisors, credit trader at Susquehanna International Group, and assistant trader in special situations at Société Générale. Jonathon has contributed to structuring complex hedge and directional trades and brings hands-on global markets experience, informed by his time in leveraged finance at Wells Fargo and direct trading roles.

Jonathon holds an MBA with a concentration in econometrics, statistics, and analytic finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a degree in economics from Bucknell University, and further studies in management from University of Cambridge. He is a CFA charterholder and recognized for thought leadership in emerging markets research, regularly publishing insights on market cycles and macro trends.