StepStone
StepStone Group is a global private markets investment firm founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York City, managing approximately $680 billion in assets under management and advisement across private equity, private debt, real estate, and infrastructure. The firm is publicly listed on the Nasdaq (NASDAQ: STEP) and serves a global institutional client base including pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, insurance companies, and family offices, providing comprehensive private markets advisory, primary investment, secondary investment, and co-investment capabilities. StepStone has grown rapidly to become one of the largest private markets investment platforms globally.
StepStone's investment platform is organized around four primary alternative asset classes: private equity, private debt, real estate, and infrastructure. Across each asset class, StepStone offers primary fund investments, secondary market acquisitions, co-investments alongside general partners, and direct investments, providing institutional clients with complete access to each segment of the private markets ecosystem. StepStone's advisory capabilities — which encompass the firm's assets under advisement — include the development and implementation of customized private markets investment programs for institutional clients that prefer a guided but client-directed approach to private markets investing.
StepStone Group has established a distinctive position in the private markets industry as a highly integrated, data-driven investment and advisory firm with some of the deepest private markets analytics capabilities in the industry. The firm's proprietary data and analytics platform — encompassing data on thousands of funds, managers, and transactions globally — provides its investment teams and advisory clients with unparalleled market intelligence for evaluating and executing private markets investments. StepStone's continued expansion, including its growing wealth management distribution efforts through innovative registered fund products, reflects its ambition to bring institutional-quality private markets access to a broader universe of investors globally.