Wilshire Associates has over 20 years of experience assisting pension funds, endowments, and foundations investing in private partnerships focused on venture capital and buyouts.  Our Private Markets Group manages over $6.0 billion in discretionary portfolios.  Wilshire has a truly global perspective on the private markets with worldwide research capability and a major international client base.  Both global and regional mandates are structured to meet client investment objectives.

Wilshire's investment objective is to select top quartile partnership investments in the most attractive private market sectors.  To achieve this, Wilshire's investment process uses top down capital markets research, a forward calendar to identify top tier general partners, rigorous due diligence of possible partnerships, and active portfolio monitoring.

Professional staff in the Private Markets Group total 39 and operate in five locations:  Santa Monica (Western U.S.), Pittsburgh (Eastern U.S.), Amsterdam (Europe), and Canberra (Asia/Pacific South) and Tokyo (Asia/Pacific North).