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Meketa Investment Group
Meketa Investment Group (Meketa) is an American investment management and advisory firm headquartered in Westwood, Massachusetts. The company provides investments in both public and private markets to institutional investors. Background Meketa was originally founded in 1974 as an investment partnership by James Meketa before it was incorporated under Massachusetts law in 1978 and became registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as an investment advisor. James previously worked for the Harvard University endowment and Meketa originated by providing investment strategy and systems advice to it. In 1978, the firm was hired by its first pension fund client. Meketa rose to prominence as a purveyor of investment advice to pension funds, financial endowments and foundations. In 1994, Meketa started advising clients on investments related to real estate. In June 2014, Meketa expanded outside the U.S. by opening an office in London to establish a presence in Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Private Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose Stock, shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets. Instead, the Private equity, company's stock is offered, owned, traded or exchanged privately, also known as "over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter". Related terms are unlisted organisation, unquoted company and private equity. Private companies are often less well-known than their public company, publicly traded counterparts but still have major importance in the world's economy. For example, in 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for $1.8 trillion in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In general, all companies that are not owned by the government are classified as private enterprises. This definition encompasses both publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Portland, Oregon
Portland ( ) is the List of cities in Oregon, most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region. Situated close to northwest Oregon at the confluence of the Willamette River, Willamette and Columbia River, Columbia rivers, it is the county seat of Multnomah County, Oregon, Multnomah County, Oregon's most populous county. Portland's population was 652,503, making it the List of United States cities by population, 28th most populous city in the United States, the sixth most populous on the West Coast of the United States, West Coast, and the third most populous in the Pacific Northwest after Seattle and Vancouver. Approximately 2.5 million people live in the Portland metropolitan area, Oregon, Portland metropolitan area, making it the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 26th most populous in the United States. Almost half of Oregon's population resides within the Portland metro area. Named after Portland, Maine, which is itself named aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
1978 Establishments In Massachusetts
Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd government). * January 6 – The Holy Crown of Hungary (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held since World War II. * January 10 – Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, a critic of the Nicaraguan government, is assassinated; riots erupt against Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Somoza's government. * January 13 – Former American Vice President Hubert Humphrey, a Democrat, dies of cancer in Waverly, Minnesota, at the age of 66. * January 18 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the British government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture. * January 22 – Ethiopia declares the ambassador of West Germany ''persona non grata''. * January 24 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Infrastructure Fund
An infrastructure fund is a privately offered or publicly listed fund that invests directly or indirectly in infrastructure and associated industries. Examples of direct investments include the purchase of stocks and bonds through public markets, or project finance. Examples of indirect investment includes investment in private infrastructure funds or preexisting, publicly listed infrastructure funds and indexes. Definitions of "infrastructure" vary, but often include power plants, water and waste management systems, transportation systems, communications systems, and oil and gas pipelines. Definitions may also include healthcare and educational facilities. A 2021 study found that, in part due to the compensation structures and the duration of typical investments, infrastructure funds tend deliver returns worse than investors may assume, and were subject to fluctuations due to economic cycles. In February 2023, Bloomberg reported that Preqin Preqin Ltd. is a Privately held compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
StepStone Group
StepStone Group LP is a global private markets firm providing customized investment, portfolio monitoring and advice to investors. StepStone covers primary fund investments, secondary fund investments and co-investments across private equity, real estate, infrastructure and real assets, and private debt. History StepStone was founded in 2006 and is based in New York, New York. The founders, Monte Brem and Thomas Keck had previously made private equity investments for Pacific Corporate Group, as President and Managing Director, respectively. From its first office in La Jolla, the firm has expanded to New York City, San Francisco, Cleveland, Toronto, Dublin, London, Luxembourg, Zurich, Beijing, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Sydney, and Perth. The firm oversees over US$130 billion of private capital allocations, including over US$34 billion of assets under management. In March 2015, it was published that StepStone would move its Manhattan headquarters to the former offic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Aksia
Aksia is an American alternative investment management and advisory firm headquartered in New York City. The company provides alternative investments to institutional investors. Aksia's main offices outside the U.S. are in London and Tokyo. Background Aksia was founded in October 2006 by Jim Vos who was previously Head of the Fund of funds group at Credit Suisse and five other former executives from the same bank. The firm first became notable for advising clients to not invest with the feeder funds of Madoff Investment Securities before the Madoff investment scandal was unveiled as a ponzi scheme in late 2008. In a report written in August 2007, Aksia stated that Madoff Investment Securities had numerous red flags. Initially Aksia noted that its split-strike conversion strategy could not be replicated by other firms in producing the returns and that the firm became big because it didn't charge fees but instead made money on trading commissions. After speaking with Madoff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Albourne Partners
Albourne Partners (Albourne) is a British alternative investment advisory firm headquartered in London. The company provides alternative investment solutions to institutional investors. Albourne has additional offices in Europe, North America and Asia. Background Business overview Simon Ruddick was a derivatives trader for Japanese investment banks who eventually left in 1989 to start up his own equity derivatives firm Westminster Equity which was then sold in 1994. Then in March that year, Ruddick founded Albourne Partners with Guy Ingram and Sam Lewis. The firm was originally set up in an office behind a butcher shop in the village of Albourne, West Sussex before moving to London later. Albourne was set to provide consultancy services to hedge funds by assessing the risk of their portfolios. According to Ruddick, the idea came from his friend Bill Fung, an academic at the London Business School that was sought after by investors in advising them to build their hedge fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Hamilton Lane
Hamilton Lane Incorporated is an American alternative investment management and advisory company headquartered in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. The company provides private markets investments to its clients. The company has 22 offices globally and has offices in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. Background Hamilton Lane was founded in 1991 by Leslie Brun. It was originally formed as a private equity advisory firm for large public pension plans. In 1998, the company added separately managed account and fund of funds investment management services. On November 18, 2004, Hamilton Lane acquired The Richcourt Group, a fund of hedge funds manager from Citco as the company continued to expand its product offerings and services. In 2000, Crédit Lyonnais acquired a 24.9% stake in Hamilton Lane. In December 2003, Hamilton Lane sold 40% of the company to a group of outside investors which included Hartley Rogers (who is now the company's chairman) and Cascad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nasdaq
The Nasdaq Stock Market (; National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American stock exchange based in New York City. It is the most active stock trading venue in the U.S. by volume, and ranked second on the list of stock exchanges by market capitalization of shares traded, behind the New York Stock Exchange. The exchange platform is owned by Nasdaq, Inc. (which the exchange also lists; ticker symbol NDAQ), which also owns the Nasdaq Nordic stock market network and several U.S.-based stock and options exchanges. Although it trades stock of healthcare, financial, media, entertainment, retail, hospitality, and food businesses, it focuses more on technology stocks. The exchange is made up of both American and foreign firms, with China and Israel being the largest foreign sources. History 1972–2000 Nasdaq, Inc. was founded in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), which is now known as the Financial Industry Regulatory A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Climate Change
Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in Global surface temperature, global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. Climate variability and change, Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to Earth's climate. The current rise in global temperatures is Scientific consensus on climate change, driven by human activities, especially fossil fuel burning since the Industrial Revolution. Fossil fuel use, Deforestation and climate change, deforestation, and some Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, agricultural and Environmental impact of concrete, industrial practices release greenhouse gases. These gases greenhouse effect, absorb some of the heat that the Earth Thermal radiation, radiates after it warms from sunlight, warming the lower atmosphere. Carbon dioxide, the primary gas driving global warming, Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere, has increased in concentratio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after India, representing 17.4% of the world population. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and Borders of China, borders fourteen countries by land across an area of nearly , making it the list of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest country by land area. The country is divided into 33 Province-level divisions of China, province-level divisions: 22 provinces of China, provinces, 5 autonomous regions of China, autonomous regions, 4 direct-administered municipalities of China, municipalities, and 2 semi-autonomous special administrative regions. Beijing is the country's capital, while Shanghai is List of cities in China by population, its most populous city by urban area and largest financial center. Considered one of six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Baby Boomers
Baby boomers, often shortened to boomers, are the demographic cohort preceded by the Silent Generation and followed by Generation X. The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964 during the mid-20th century baby boom that followed the end of World War II. By this definition, as of 2025, the youngest of them is 61 and the oldest 79 years old. The dates, the demographic context, and the cultural identifiers may vary by country. Most baby boomers are the parents of Millennials. In the West, boomers' childhoods in the 1950s and 1960s had significant reforms in education, both as part of the ideological confrontation that was the Cold War, and as a continuation of the interwar period. Theirs was a time of economic prosperity and rapid technological progress. As this relatively large number of young people entered their teens and young adulthood—the oldest turned 18 in 1964, the youngest in 1982—they, and those around them, created a very specific rhetoric a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
