A global investment firm that works with endowments & foundations, pensions, private clients, governments, and insurance companies to manage custom investment portfolios 40 years ago, Cambridge Associates’ first college and university clients included 12 institutions: Amherst College, California Institute of Technology, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Notre Dame, Princeton University, University of Southern California, Stanford University, Wesleyan University, and Yale University. Jim Bailey and Hunter Lewis, Cambridge Associates’ founders, conducted the early investment research for institutional investors.