Our History
DECADES OF INSTITUTIONAL & PRIVATE INVESTMENT EXPERIENCE
Meet Hunter Lewis
CEO & CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER
Hunter Lewis is best known as one of two co-founders and former CEO of Cambridge Associates LLC, an investment firm that has advised research universities and colleges representing over three-quarters of U.S. higher education endowment assets, foundations, cultural organizations, international organizations and other non-profit institutions, as well as high net worth families. Cambridge Associates is now a global firm with offices and clients around the world and $2.6 trillion in assets under advisement as of 2018, the year Lewis left. He created Hunter Lewis LLC to provide clients of all asset sizes access to elite investment services.
Pioneering Institutional Change
CO-FOUNDER OF THE UNIVERSITY INVESTMENT MODEL
As a co-founder of Cambridge Associates, Hunter co-created (along with colleagues and clients) what became known as the university investment model. For many years, this gave university endowment funds some of the highest investment returns in the world among institutional investors, which was soon noticed and emulated, particularly in its use of what came to be called alternative investments. More recently Hunter described the university investment model in the Financial Times as “outdated.”
Advising Investment Leaders
UNIVERSITIES, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, FAMILIES, & MORE
Hunter Lewis personally advised, either alone or with other Cambridge staff members, many institutions and private clients, including universities, international organizations, foundations, prominent high-wealth families, and others.*
FORMER CAMBRIDGE ASSOCIATES CLIENTS*
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Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
Caltech
University of Chicago
Northwestern
Notre Dame
University of California
University of Texas
University of Virginia
University of North Carolina
University of South Carolina
Vanderbilt
Cornell
University of Michigan
Emory
Cambridge University and colleges
Oxford University and colleges
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Swarthmore
Amherst
Colgate
Williams
William and Mary
Washington and Lee
Wesleyan
Bowdoin
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International Monetary Fund
World Bank
Asian Development Bank
Inter-American Development Bank
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Presbyterian Church USA
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Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Museum
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Ford Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
PEW Charitable Trusts
Mellon Foundation
Kellogg Foundation
Kresge Foundation
New York Community Trust
White House Historical Association
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Corning Glass
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Many prominent families and family trusts
*No performance based criteria were used in construction of the list. It is not known if the listed clients approve or disapprove of the adviser or the advisery services provided. The list has been constructed to include clients with whom Hunter personally worked. It does not include numerous Cambridge clients whose Cambridge advisers were supervised by Hunter. It does not include clients who or which expressed at the time a preference to Hunter to remain anonymous, including families, trusts, and others. Any other omission is inadvertent.
Launching Hunter Lewis LLC
We were originally established to assist the family office in guiding the investments of Hunter Lewis, his family, and related entities. We began to welcome outside clients, both private and institutional, into our extended family in order to share the services that we carefully developed. We are committed to protecting and growing client assets along with our own.