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 More recently Hunter described the university investment model in the Financial Times as “outdated.”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*

  • 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

  • Swarthmore

    Amherst

    Colgate

    Williams

    William and Mary

    Washington and Lee

    Wesleyan

    Bowdoin

  • International Monetary Fund

    World Bank

    Asian Development Bank

    Inter-American Development Bank

  • Presbyterian Church USA

  • Metropolitan Opera

    Metropolitan Museum

  • Ford Foundation

    Rockefeller Foundation

    Rockefeller Brothers Fund

    PEW Charitable Trusts

    Mellon Foundation

    Kellogg Foundation

    Kresge Foundation

    New York Community Trust

    White House Historical Association

  • Corning Glass

  • 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.

OUR PRINCIPLES