While we tailor portfolio construction to the needs of each client, we adhere to these tenets when building an organization’s portfolio.
Meeting a client’s long-term return goal requires a meaningful allocation to equity, history’s highest returning asset class.
We use portfolio diversification to control risk and volatility through market cycles.
While passive investing is a sensible approach in highly efficient markets, we believe that disciplined active management in areas of market inefficiency can deliver excess returns.
Alternative investments are not distinct asset classes, but rather opportunity sets with a high degree of performance variability among managers. We believe alternative strategies provide a greater opportunity for outperformance for those with expansive networks and skill in manager selection.
Head of Venture Capital, Kate Simpson, joined the Swimming with Allocators podcast to discuss how GEM constructs its venture portfolio, why the market has bifurcated, and where disciplined manager selection creates the most compelling opportunities.
As dealmakers leave established firms to launch their own, many are turning to deal-by-deal and hybrid structures first. Caroline Dallas, a Managing Director in GEM's Investment Research Group, spoke with Buyouts about why GEM sees this as a natural market evolution.
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