About Legatum

Legatum is a privately owned international investment group whose primary focus is commercial investment, and which also applies its investor’s expertise to a long- standing involvement in the sustainable development of communities around the globe.  For more information, please visit Legatum’s website at http://www.legatum.com.

The Legatum Group is composed of five divisions:

Legatum Capital

A private portfolio investment firm that manages a multi-billion dollar fund investing only proprietary capital focussed on finding value in transitioning companies, sectors and countries. Legatum Capital’s mission is to maximise its absolute long-term return on investment in the world’s capital markets. 

http://www.legatumcapital.com

Legatum Ventures

Invests private capital in growing enterprises that promote prosperity in the developing world. Ventures’ vision is to play a defining role in the creation of a new asset class within the global capital markets – one in which investors can do well by doing good.

http://www.legatumventures.com

Legatum Institute

An independent, non-partisan think tank whose research, publications and conferences advance ideas in support of free and prosperous societies. The Institute publishes the annual Global Prosperity Index, a study of 110 countries that redefines prosperity holistically to include both wealth and wellbeing.

http://www.li.com

Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT

Founded on the belief that economic progress and good governance in low-income countries emerge from entrepreneurship and innovations that empower ordinary citizens. The Center administers programs and convenes events that promote and shape discourse on bottom-up development. Led by Iqbal Z. Quadir, founder of Grameenphone and Emergence BioEnergy, the Center runs a highly competitive fellowship program for MIT graduate students who intend to launch enterprises in low-income countries. In addition, the Center convenes an annual conference, hosts lectures, and supports teams of enterprising men and women at MIT who are passionate about starting viable businesses in the developing world. 

http://legatum.mit.edu

Legatum Foundation

 The Legatum Foundation’s mission is to liberate the human potential of those suffering abject poverty. The Foundation seeks to influence and redefine conventional approaches to social development by promoting initiatives that enhance the optimal allocation of human, intellectual and financial capital. 

http://www.legatum.org