Private Clients
We help families of institutional scale build portfolios to meet their investment goals and fulfill their legacies.
Our private clients’ investment portfolios are an integral part of their financial enterprise. Because no two families are alike, we work closely with each investor to build a portfolio based on his or her unique investment objectives, tax considerations, risk tolerance, and other unique factors. We are also practiced at collaborating with other financial advisors to create a seamless partnership.
Our expert investment teams work with families at various stages of the investment lifecycle. We aim to build long-term relationships with our private clients, helping them to prepare for generational wealth transfers, establish governance processes, and educate family members on how to preserve and grow their wealth.
The relationships we build are grounded in an alignment of interests with our clients. We don’t generate fees from investment products or have financial relationships with managers for recommending their products. Our clients can trust that the investment decisions we make for their portfolios are meant to achieve their financial objectives, not our own.
* Cambridge Associates typically works with families, family offices, and individuals with a minimum portfolio size of $100 million.
Services We Offer
Portfolio Management
When building portfolios for private clients, we are responsible for managing the portfolio and delivering results. Families can choose to work with us on a discretionary or a non-discretionary basis. Under our discretionary model, we are responsible for portfolio strategy, implementation, day-to-day management, and operations. Under a non-discretionary arrangement, we are responsible for day-to-day oversight of the portfolio, providing directive recommendations on asset allocation, portfolio structure, and manager selection — all subject to approval by the client.
Asset Class Mandates
With investment expertise across asset classes, and specialized resources in alternative assets, we manage a portion of a private client’s portfolio, such as private equity, private credit, co-investments, hedge funds, real assets, or other asset classes. As with our portfolio management services for total assets, private clients engage with us in either a discretionary or a non-discretionary capacity for single asset mandates.
Staff Extension
For families with a well-staffed family office, we partner closely with them to complement and augment their in-house resources, providing our expertise and manager relationships across asset classes or in specific asset classes only.
Latest Research
Private Investing for Private Investors: Life Can Be Better After 40(%)
Families with multigenerational wealth may be particularly well positioned to consider allocating 40% or more of their assets to private investments. Assuming these families have the requisite long-term time horizon, patience, and ability to act quickly, they stand to benefit not only from the potential for higher returns but also from the tax-advantaged nature of private investments. Life could get better after 40%!
Read More »
Social Equity Investing: Righting Institutional Wrongs
There is perhaps no better time for social equity investing. Many institutional investors have long sought to promote social equity through grant making and other philanthropic endeavors. With the field of impact investing maturing, these institutions are now increasingly seeking investment solutions to accomplish the same goal. In this paper we review the current state of social equity in the United States, highlight eight core social equity issue areas, and discuss the lessons we’ve learned in constructing portfolios with these investments. While investors need to be mindful of risks, we believe that investments can be made to promote a social equity impact agenda across the portfolio.
Read More »
VantagePoint: Third Quarter 2018
Climbing the wall of worries is getting tougher. There is room for markets to progress, but caution is required at this stage in the cycle. Markets must overcome four main forces: monetary policy tightening, US dollar strength, a China growth slowdown, and trade friction.
Read More »
Venture Capital and Impact Investing: Blurring Boundaries Mean New Opportunities
Impact investing – allocations that aim for social and/or environmental change or to solve a problem in the world – has historically stood apart from…
Read More »
What Should Individual Investors Do Now That the US Tax Bill Has Passed?
The new US tax bill creates little pressure for immediate action by individual investors, even though we expect the legislation to be quite impactful.
Read More »
Is Private Equity Replacing Public Equity?
It sure looks like it. The increasingly unforgiving nature of public equity markets, coupled with the continued evolution and growth of private investment markets, is making it easier for more companies to stay private, with some CEOs avowing to do so indefinitely.
Read More »
Private Investing for Private Investors: Life Can Be Better After 40(%)
Families with multigenerational wealth may be particularly well positioned to consider allocating 40% or more of their assets to private investments. Assuming these families have the requisite long-term time horizon, patience, and ability to act quickly, they stand to benefit not only from the potential for higher returns but also from the tax-advantaged nature of private investments. Life could get better after 40%!
Read More »
Social Equity Investing: Righting Institutional Wrongs
There is perhaps no better time for social equity investing. Many institutional investors have long sought to promote social equity through grant making and other philanthropic endeavors. With the field of impact investing maturing, these institutions are now increasingly seeking investment solutions to accomplish the same goal. In this paper we review the current state of social equity in the United States, highlight eight core social equity issue areas, and discuss the lessons we’ve learned in constructing portfolios with these investments. While investors need to be mindful of risks, we believe that investments can be made to promote a social equity impact agenda across the portfolio.
Read More »
VantagePoint: Third Quarter 2018
Climbing the wall of worries is getting tougher. There is room for markets to progress, but caution is required at this stage in the cycle. Markets must overcome four main forces: monetary policy tightening, US dollar strength, a China growth slowdown, and trade friction.
Read More »
Venture Capital and Impact Investing: Blurring Boundaries Mean New Opportunities
Impact investing – allocations that aim for social and/or environmental change or to solve a problem in the world – has historically stood apart from…
Read More »
What Should Individual Investors Do Now That the US Tax Bill Has Passed?
The new US tax bill creates little pressure for immediate action by individual investors, even though we expect the legislation to be quite impactful.
Read More »
Is Private Equity Replacing Public Equity?
It sure looks like it. The increasingly unforgiving nature of public equity markets, coupled with the continued evolution and growth of private investment markets, is making it easier for more companies to stay private, with some CEOs avowing to do so indefinitely.
Read More »
Contact Us
We help families of institutional scale build portfolios to meet their investment goals and fulfill their legacies.
Because no two families are alike, we work closely with each investor to create a portfolio based on his or her unique investment objectives, tax considerations, risk tolerance, concentrated positions, and other unique factors.
We build long-term relationships with our clients, working with them at various stages of the investment lifecycle to prepare for generational wealth transfers, establish governance processes, and educate family members on how to preserve and grow their wealth. We assist many families in establishing and managing private foundations to support their philanthropic endeavors, and can leverage our expertise in impact investing to reflect a client’s values and priorities.
Our global footprint enables us to uncover areas of significant investment potential in diverse alternative assets such as private equity, venture capital, and real assets, while our scale allows us to negotiate competitive terms for the benefit of our clients. For four decades, we have built a network of established and promising new managers across all asset classes to achieve one objective: to get access to the best investment managers for each client’s unique portfolio.
We are aligned with our clients. We don’t generate fees from investment products or have financial relationships with managers for recommending their products.
Services We Offer
Portfolio Management
In building and managing a total portfolio, we work in either a discretionary or non-discretionary basis. Under our discretionary (OCIO) model, we are responsible for portfolio strategy, implementation, day-to-day management, and operations. Under a non-discretionary arrangement, we are responsible for day-to-day oversight of the portfolio, providing directive recommendations on asset allocation, portfolio structure, and manager selection — all subject to approval by the client.
Asset Class Mandates
With investment expertise across asset classes and specialised resources in alternative assets, we can manage a portion of a portfolio, such as private equity, private credit, co-investments, hedge funds, real assets, or other asset classes. As with our total portfolio services, portfolio management of asset class mandates is available on either a discretionary or non-discretionary basis.
Staff Extension
We partner closely with family offices that have significant investment staff to complement and augment their in-house resources. In this capacity, we provide our expertise and manager relationships across asset classes, or in specific asset classes, and act as a sounding board for investment ideas.
Latest Research
Private Investing for Private Investors: Life Can Be Better After 40(%)
Families with multigenerational wealth may be particularly well positioned to consider allocating 40% or more of their assets to private investments. Assuming these families have the requisite long-term time horizon, patience, and ability to act quickly, they stand to benefit not only from the potential for higher returns but also from the tax-advantaged nature of private investments. Life could get better after 40%!
Read More »
Outlook 2019: More Risk for Less Return?
Although we are more cautious heading into 2019 than we were 12 months ago, we still think a roughly neutral allocation to risk assets is the right approach.
Read More »
VantagePoint: Fourth Quarter 2018
Because the US economy has entered the late stage of the economic cycle, investors should consider the prospect of a bear market recession, even though one does not seem imminent. We have been evaluating the appeal of different asset classes through a late-cycle lens. In this edition of VantagePoint, we evaluate several potentially defensive equity strategies to see whether they are attractive today.
Read More »
Alternative Risk Premia Funds: An Attractive Diversifier? (Sterling Edition)
Elevated equity market valuations and potentially rising bond yields suggest the return environment for traditional risk assets could be difficult. Faced with this challenge, institutional…
Read More »
Rising from the Ashes: Key Developments Since the Global Financial Crisis
In this report, we briefly highlight five key post-GFC developments and discuss how investors might adapt their portfolios to these changes.
Read More »
Mission-Related Investing: Insights and Perspectives
Investor approaches to mission-related investing (MRI) are as varied as the social and environmental outcomes they seek to achieve. Based on responses from 148 clients—54…
Read More »
Amid Rising Risks, Should Investors Maintain Credit Allocations?
Yes, but investors should be selective in allocating to credit markets at this point in the cycle, and understand that the overvaluation of many credit assets could make attractive returns hard to come by.
Read More »
Gender Lens Investing: Impact Opportunities Through Gender Equity
With a gender lens framework, investors can positively impact gender imbalances via their portfolio management choices; this paper provides tangible investment themes and implementable strategies.
Read More »
In Light of Ongoing “Brexit” Uncertainty, Should Investors Reduce Exposure to UK Equities?
No, investors should consider staying the course. Though developments and headlines associated with the United Kingdom’s Article 50 negotiations with the European Union have been and likely will remain fitful, they reflect more the political nature of the process and less the underlying fundamentals of the economy and its listed equities.
Read More »
Private Investing for Private Investors: Life Can Be Better After 40(%)
Families with multigenerational wealth may be particularly well positioned to consider allocating 40% or more of their assets to private investments. Assuming these families have the requisite long-term time horizon, patience, and ability to act quickly, they stand to benefit not only from the potential for higher returns but also from the tax-advantaged nature of private investments. Life could get better after 40%!
Read More »
Outlook 2019: More Risk for Less Return?
Although we are more cautious heading into 2019 than we were 12 months ago, we still think a roughly neutral allocation to risk assets is the right approach.
Read More »
VantagePoint: Fourth Quarter 2018
Because the US economy has entered the late stage of the economic cycle, investors should consider the prospect of a bear market recession, even though one does not seem imminent. We have been evaluating the appeal of different asset classes through a late-cycle lens. In this edition of VantagePoint, we evaluate several potentially defensive equity strategies to see whether they are attractive today.
Read More »
Alternative Risk Premia Funds: An Attractive Diversifier? (Sterling Edition)
Elevated equity market valuations and potentially rising bond yields suggest the return environment for traditional risk assets could be difficult. Faced with this challenge, institutional…
Read More »
Rising from the Ashes: Key Developments Since the Global Financial Crisis
In this report, we briefly highlight five key post-GFC developments and discuss how investors might adapt their portfolios to these changes.
Read More »
Mission-Related Investing: Insights and Perspectives
Investor approaches to mission-related investing (MRI) are as varied as the social and environmental outcomes they seek to achieve. Based on responses from 148 clients—54…
Read More »
Amid Rising Risks, Should Investors Maintain Credit Allocations?
Yes, but investors should be selective in allocating to credit markets at this point in the cycle, and understand that the overvaluation of many credit assets could make attractive returns hard to come by.
Read More »
Gender Lens Investing: Impact Opportunities Through Gender Equity
With a gender lens framework, investors can positively impact gender imbalances via their portfolio management choices; this paper provides tangible investment themes and implementable strategies.
Read More »
In Light of Ongoing “Brexit” Uncertainty, Should Investors Reduce Exposure to UK Equities?
No, investors should consider staying the course. Though developments and headlines associated with the United Kingdom’s Article 50 negotiations with the European Union have been and likely will remain fitful, they reflect more the political nature of the process and less the underlying fundamentals of the economy and its listed equities.
Read More »
Contact Us
We help families of institutional scale build portfolios to meet their investment goals and fulfill their legacies.
Our private clients’ investment portfolios are an integral part of their financial enterprise. Because no two families are alike, we work closely with each investor to build a portfolio based on his or her unique investment objectives, tax considerations, risk tolerance, and other unique factors. We are also practiced at collaborating with other financial advisors to create a seamless partnership.
Our expert investment teams work with families at various stages of the investment lifecycle. We aim to build long-term relationships with our private clients, helping them to prepare for generational wealth transfers, establish governance processes, and educate family members on how to preserve and grow their wealth.
The relationships we build are grounded in an alignment of interests with our clients. We don’t generate fees from investment products or have financial relationships with managers for recommending their products. Our clients can trust that the investment decisions we make for their portfolios are meant to achieve their financial objectives, not our own.
Services We Offer
Portfolio Management
When building portfolios for private clients, we are responsible for managing the portfolio and delivering results. Families can choose to work with us on a discretionary or a non-discretionary basis. Under our discretionary model, we are responsible for portfolio strategy, implementation, day-to-day management, and operations. Under a non-discretionary arrangement, we are responsible for day-to-day oversight of the portfolio, providing directive recommendations on asset allocation, portfolio structure, and manager selection — all subject to approval by the client.
Asset Class Mandates
With investment expertise across asset classes, and specialized resources in alternative assets, we manage a portion of a private client’s portfolio, such as private equity, private credit, co-investments, hedge funds, real assets, or other asset classes. As with our portfolio management services for total assets, private clients engage with us in either a discretionary or a non-discretionary capacity for single asset mandates.
Staff Extension
For families with a well-staffed family office, we partner closely with them to complement and augment their in-house resources, providing our expertise and manager relationships across asset classes or in specific asset classes only.
Latest Research
VantagePoint: Second Quarter 2019
We recently argued that investors should take a systematic and comprehensive approach to investing in China, overweighting Chinese assets relative to their index weights. This edition of VantagePoint addresses five key questions regarding implementation decisions.
Read More »
VantagePoint: First Quarter 2019
In this edition of VantagePoint, we compare and contrast the late 1990s and today; our intent is to help investors navigate this recent downturn and the next recession-related bear market (which may already be in progress), and to position their portfolios for long-term success.
Read More »
Outlook 2019: More Risk for Less Return?
Although we are more cautious heading into 2019 than we were 12 months ago, we still think a roughly neutral allocation to risk assets is the right approach.
Read More »
VantagePoint: Fourth Quarter 2018
Because the US economy has entered the late stage of the economic cycle, investors should consider the prospect of a bear market recession, even though one does not seem imminent. We have been evaluating the appeal of different asset classes through a late-cycle lens. In this edition of VantagePoint, we evaluate several potentially defensive equity strategies to see whether they are attractive today.
Read More »
Rising from the Ashes: Key Developments Since the Global Financial Crisis
In this report, we briefly highlight five key post-GFC developments and discuss how investors might adapt their portfolios to these changes.
Read More »
VantagePoint: Third Quarter 2018
Climbing the wall of worries is getting tougher. There is room for markets to progress, but caution is required at this stage in the cycle. Markets must overcome four main forces: monetary policy tightening, US dollar strength, a China growth slowdown, and trade friction.
Read More »
Venture Capital and Impact Investing: Blurring Boundaries Mean New Opportunities
Impact investing – allocations that aim for social and/or environmental change or to solve a problem in the world – has historically stood apart from…
Read More »
VantagePoint: Second Quarter 2019
We recently argued that investors should take a systematic and comprehensive approach to investing in China, overweighting Chinese assets relative to their index weights. This edition of VantagePoint addresses five key questions regarding implementation decisions.
Read More »
VantagePoint: First Quarter 2019
In this edition of VantagePoint, we compare and contrast the late 1990s and today; our intent is to help investors navigate this recent downturn and the next recession-related bear market (which may already be in progress), and to position their portfolios for long-term success.
Read More »
Outlook 2019: More Risk for Less Return?
Although we are more cautious heading into 2019 than we were 12 months ago, we still think a roughly neutral allocation to risk assets is the right approach.
Read More »
VantagePoint: Fourth Quarter 2018
Because the US economy has entered the late stage of the economic cycle, investors should consider the prospect of a bear market recession, even though one does not seem imminent. We have been evaluating the appeal of different asset classes through a late-cycle lens. In this edition of VantagePoint, we evaluate several potentially defensive equity strategies to see whether they are attractive today.
Read More »
Rising from the Ashes: Key Developments Since the Global Financial Crisis
In this report, we briefly highlight five key post-GFC developments and discuss how investors might adapt their portfolios to these changes.
Read More »
VantagePoint: Third Quarter 2018
Climbing the wall of worries is getting tougher. There is room for markets to progress, but caution is required at this stage in the cycle. Markets must overcome four main forces: monetary policy tightening, US dollar strength, a China growth slowdown, and trade friction.
Read More »
Venture Capital and Impact Investing: Blurring Boundaries Mean New Opportunities
Impact investing – allocations that aim for social and/or environmental change or to solve a problem in the world – has historically stood apart from…
Read More »
Contact Us
We help families of institutional scale build portfolios to meet their investment goals and fulfill their legacies.
Our private clients’ investment portfolios are an integral part of their financial enterprise. Because no two families are alike, we work closely with each investor to build a portfolio based on his or her unique investment objectives, tax considerations, risk tolerance, and other unique factors. We are also practiced at collaborating with other financial advisors to create a seamless partnership.
Our expert investment teams work with families at various stages of the investment lifecycle. We aim to build long-term relationships with our private clients, helping them to prepare for generational wealth transfers, establish governance processes, and educate family members on how to preserve and grow their wealth.
The relationships we build are grounded in an alignment of interests with our clients. We don’t generate fees from investment products or have financial relationships with managers for recommending their products. Our clients can trust that the investment decisions we make for their portfolios are meant to achieve their financial objectives, not our own.
Services We Offer
Portfolio Management
When building portfolios for private clients, we are responsible for managing the portfolio and delivering results. Families can choose to work with us on a discretionary or a non-discretionary basis. Under our discretionary model, we are responsible for portfolio strategy, implementation, day-to-day management, and operations. Under a non-discretionary arrangement, we are responsible for day-to-day oversight of the portfolio, providing directive recommendations on asset allocation, portfolio structure, and manager selection — all subject to approval by the client.
Asset Class Mandates
With investment expertise across asset classes, and specialised resources in alternative assets, we manage a portion of a private client’s portfolio, such as private equity, private credit, co-investments, hedge funds, real assets, or other asset classes. As with our portfolio management services for total assets, private clients engage with us in either a discretionary or a non-discretionary capacity for single asset mandates.
Staff Extension
For families with a well-staffed family office, we partner closely with them to complement and augment their in-house resources, providing our expertise and manager relationships across asset classes or in specific asset classes only.
Latest Research
VantagePoint: Third Quarter 2018
Climbing the wall of worries is getting tougher. There is room for markets to progress, but caution is required at this stage in the cycle. Markets must overcome four main forces: monetary policy tightening, US dollar strength, a China growth slowdown, and trade friction.
Read More »
Social Equity Investing: Righting Institutional Wrongs
There is perhaps no better time for social equity investing. Many institutional investors have long sought to promote social equity through grant making and other philanthropic endeavors. With the field of impact investing maturing, these institutions are now increasingly seeking investment solutions to accomplish the same goal. In this paper we review the current state of social equity in the United States, highlight eight core social equity issue areas, and discuss the lessons we’ve learned in constructing portfolios with these investments. While investors need to be mindful of risks, we believe that investments can be made to promote a social equity impact agenda across the portfolio.
Read More »
Will the Addition of Chinese A-shares to MSCI’s Global Indexes Trigger an A-Share Rally?
No, MSCI index inclusion will not trigger a bull market in Chinese A-shares.* Given the very modest initial weights and the lack of clarity on future increases, we doubt that index-driven flows will drive share prices meaningfully higher.
Read More »
Is it Time to Sell Energy MLPs?
We don’t think so. Investors with allocations to energy MLPs (master limited partnerships) may want to maintain existing allocations, despite their recent poor performance and the proposed regulatory changes impacting interstate pipelines.
Read More »
Venture Capital and Impact Investing: Blurring Boundaries Mean New Opportunities
Impact investing – allocations that aim for social and/or environmental change or to solve a problem in the world – has historically stood apart from…
Read More »
VantagePoint: Third Quarter 2018
Climbing the wall of worries is getting tougher. There is room for markets to progress, but caution is required at this stage in the cycle. Markets must overcome four main forces: monetary policy tightening, US dollar strength, a China growth slowdown, and trade friction.
Read More »
Social Equity Investing: Righting Institutional Wrongs
There is perhaps no better time for social equity investing. Many institutional investors have long sought to promote social equity through grant making and other philanthropic endeavors. With the field of impact investing maturing, these institutions are now increasingly seeking investment solutions to accomplish the same goal. In this paper we review the current state of social equity in the United States, highlight eight core social equity issue areas, and discuss the lessons we’ve learned in constructing portfolios with these investments. While investors need to be mindful of risks, we believe that investments can be made to promote a social equity impact agenda across the portfolio.
Read More »
Will the Addition of Chinese A-shares to MSCI’s Global Indexes Trigger an A-Share Rally?
No, MSCI index inclusion will not trigger a bull market in Chinese A-shares.* Given the very modest initial weights and the lack of clarity on future increases, we doubt that index-driven flows will drive share prices meaningfully higher.
Read More »
Is it Time to Sell Energy MLPs?
We don’t think so. Investors with allocations to energy MLPs (master limited partnerships) may want to maintain existing allocations, despite their recent poor performance and the proposed regulatory changes impacting interstate pipelines.
Read More »
Venture Capital and Impact Investing: Blurring Boundaries Mean New Opportunities
Impact investing – allocations that aim for social and/or environmental change or to solve a problem in the world – has historically stood apart from…
Read More »
