We are a leading Outsourced Chief Investment Office to endowments, foundations, and other long-term investors. We collaborate with clients on the design of investment policy and portfolio construction, and then assume responsibility for implementation and manager selection. Portfolios are customized to meet clients' distinct needs, objectives, and risk tolerance, with varied allocations across asset types. Within portfolios, we ensure all clients have equitable access to our differentiated manager relationships.
We believe alternative investment strategies play a key role in investment portfolios, and that the gap between well-selected and poorly selected alternative investments is wide. We have deep domain expertise across a broad spectrum of private asset classes, with a particular focus on small buyouts, real estate, and venture capital.
Our impact approach is founded on our conviction that we can deliver positive outcomes for people and the planet without sacrificing financial returns.1 Using our rigorous impact measurement framework, we prioritize managers and investments with the potential to solve pressing social and environmental problems.2
Kelly Barofsky, a Managing Director in GEM’s Investment Research Group, spoke with PitchBook about the continued momentum behind independent sponsors and why deal-by-deal structures can create strong alignment between sponsors and investors.
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.
Our 2025 Impact Report explores a key question shaping the future of impact investing: how can investors support AI’s development and deployment in ways that maximize its benefits while mitigating its risks?
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1 Returns are not guaranteed.
2 To select impact investments, GEM utilizes the GEM IMP Framework, a comprehensive model adapted from the Impact Management Project’s Impact Management “norms” and Impact Classes and applied by GEM to assess impact by evaluating investment strategies and managers, including but not limited to the impact of portfolio companies on key stakeholders and investment managers’ contributions to impact. For more information on the Impact Management Project, please see https://impactfrontiers.org/norms/. For the avoidance of doubt, GEM reserves the right to modify the GEM IMP Framework and its application.
