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 David Weisburd on the How I Invest podcast to share how GEM evaluates venture managers and builds conviction through disciplined sourcing, rigorous reference work, and thoughtful fund-level underwriting in an increasingly bifurcated market.
In our 2026 Outlook, the GEM team explores the key forces driving today’s evolving market cycle, from AI-led capital spending to shifting dynamics in private markets, biotech, and real estate, and what they mean for positioning in the year ahead.
In this edition of The Long View, Co-CIO Matt Bank explains why managing risk with structure, discipline, and flexibility is essential for long-term investors, and how GEM’s approach helps portfolios endure uncertainty.
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