We build custom portfolios to help our clients fulfill their long-term investment objectives and extend their legacies.
For nearly 40 years, wealthy families and family offices have chosen Cambridge Associates as a steward of their capital.
As an independent, privately held investment firm, we are investors who take on our clients’ goals as our own. Each portfolio is constructed from the ground up, founded on solid investment principles, informed by deep experience in the management of private wealth, and designed to outperform.
Offering an objective, client-first approach, we serve a community of families around the world, providing:
We build long-term relationships with our clients, helping them at various stages of their investment lifecycles, whether to create a plan ahead of a liquidity event, prepare for generational wealth transfers, establish governance processes, or educate family members on how to preserve and grow their wealth. We assist many families in managing private foundations to support their philanthropic endeavors and can leverage our expertise in impact investing to reflect a client’s values and priorities within their portfolio strategy.
Whether you are a first-generation wealth creator, a family trustee, a business owner, or a fifth-generation family member continuing your family’s legacy, we can help you navigate the complexities of long-term investing to preserve and build assets over time and across generations.
*Cambridge Associates typically works with families and family offices with a minimum portfolio size of $100 million.
As 2020 comes to a close, we expect some key investment drivers to persist into next year. While our views speak to many different challenges confronting investors, including the poor bond yields on offer, the fate of US-China relations, and where to find growth, they are rooted in the belief that 2021 will be a year of healing for the global economy.
In 2018, we reviewed the state of social equity investing, with a focus on racial equity investing. The themes we highlighted then are even more relevant today. In this paper, we discuss the renewed sense of urgency around racial equity investing and put forward three actions investors can take to address the inequities inherent in our society.
In this video series, several of our practitioners share their current views on both global and region-specific private equity and venture capital markets, recent performance trends, and insights from their latest experiences.
Economic, market, and healthcare circumstances have been extraordinary over the last six months. However, attractive opportunities exist in some pockets of tech, relatively cheap public equities, and even in credit less supported by central bank activity. Additionally, the importance of investing in social equity has been brought into sharp relief by this crisis.
Grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs) have been a popular and effective wealth transfer strategy for US families in recent decades and are even more compelling now. Despite their advantages, GRATs cannot achieve their full potential without careful analysis of multiple factors, including structuring and investment considerations.
Families of wealth face three key questions about intergenerational wealth planning: how best to invest to sustain future generations; how best to engage the next generation; and how best to ensure family unity endures. Often each question is addressed independently. We find that a conversation across generations about the impact of a meaningful venture capital allocation can help address all three questions in an integrated manner.
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%!
