Legatum

LEGATUM is a privately owned, international investment organisation or hedge fund, headquartered in Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates. Legatum's primary focus is commercial investment, and has applied its investor's expertise to a long-standing involvement in the sustainable development of communities around the globe.

Organisation and Operations

The Legatum group is active in the international markets for both financial and social capital. Legatum invests with the principle that financial success and community development are mutually reinforcing and mutually beneficial, and combines the long-term, value-oriented investment style of Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett with the philanthropic approach of the Rockefeller Foundation and Carnegie Corporation. <br />Legatum's activities are undertaken through five divisions:

• Legatum Capital;
• Legatum Ventures;
• The Legatum Institute;
• The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT ("LCDE"); and
• The Legatum Foundation

Legatum Capital

Legatum Capital is a long-term, value-oriented portfolio investor with a special emphasis on emerging markets, and countries and industries in transition. The firm has managed a multi-billion-dollar fund of proprietary capital for more than twenty years.

Legatum Ventures

Legatum Ventures is a double bottom line investor that incubates and invests in for-profit enterprises that deliver measurable social returns, while generating financial returns that...
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