Wilshire
Wilshire Associates is a global investment management, analytics, and consulting firm founded in 1972 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The firm serves institutional investors including pension funds, endowments, foundations, and sovereign wealth funds globally, providing investment management, risk analytics, investment consulting, and benchmarking services. Wilshire is particularly recognized for creating the Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index, the broadest measure of the U.S. equity market, and for its extensive institutional consulting capabilities spanning asset allocation, manager selection, alternative investment advisory, and investment governance.
Wilshire's investment management and advisory capabilities encompass both traditional and alternative investment strategies, including hedge funds, private equity, real assets, and private credit. The firm's institutional consulting business provides asset allocation advice, manager due diligence, and ongoing portfolio monitoring across all major asset classes including alternatives, serving as a trusted fiduciary adviser for some of the world's largest institutional investors. Wilshire's risk analytics capabilities provide institutional clients with sophisticated tools for measuring and managing portfolio risk across traditional and alternative investments.
Wilshire Associates has built a distinguished reputation over five decades as a trusted institutional investment partner, known for its intellectual rigor, independence, and commitment to advancing investment knowledge and practice. The firm's combination of investment management, advisory, and analytics capabilities provides institutional investors with comprehensive support across all dimensions of the investment management process. Wilshire's index business, consulting capabilities, and investment management platform collectively position it as a uniquely integrated investment organization that serves the broadest range of institutional investment needs across both traditional and alternative investment strategies.