Career
Bruce Jacobs has been President and Director of Jacobs Levy Equity Management since September 1986. Bruce Jacobs is a control person of the firm and directly owns between 50% and 75% of it. Bruce Jacobs holds a BA from Columbia College, an MS in Operations Research and Computer Science from Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science and an MA in Applied Economics and PhD in Finance from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Bruce Jacobs studied MSIA at Carnegie Mellon University Graduate School of Industrial Administration.
Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc is a Florham Park, NJ firm with $28B under management, 75 clients and 38 advisers in one office, as of its April 2026 filing.
Jacobs Levy says Bruce I. Jacobs co-founded the firm in 1986 and serves as co-chief investment officer and portfolio manager. Before that, he was a senior managing director and managing director at Prudential affiliates, taught finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and consulted to the RAND Corporation.
The IAPD individual lookup on 17 October 2026 returned no individual record. This profile uses the firm’s Form ADV officer listing.
Credentials and registrations
Individual registration and examination information for Bruce Jacobs is unavailable. An officer title or CRD number does not by itself establish current investment adviser representative registration, and no registration or examination counts are inferred.
Officer record
- Full name
- Bruce Jacobs
- CRD
- 4342520
- Record basis
- Form ADV officer listing
- Firm bio
- jlem.com
Disciplinary history is not reported here, in either direction. Check the SEC record.
Common questions
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Bruce Jacobs has been President and Director of Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc since September 1986, and is a control person of the firm.