Matt Stone

The University of Chicago Endowment (UCE) manages the endowment of the University of Chicago, a private research university headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. They are responsible for overseeing the investment of the University's investment assets including the endowment, pensions, and other related assets. The University of Chicago’s endowment supports the fundamental mission of the institution—to produce a caliber of teaching and research that regularly leads to advances across the sciences, medicine, law, business, the arts, and humanistic inquiry. The endowment provides a permanent source of income to these endeavors by supplementing the operating budget of the University.

Founded in 1988, Arbor Research & Trading LLC is an institutional research and brokerage firm located in Barrington, Illinois. The firm produces innovative research across a broad range of global fixed-income, equity, currency and commodity markets. In addition, Arbor's trading desk provides comprehensive issue discovery and high quality execution in the fixed-income and currency markets. The firm offers objective viewpoints and intelligent solutions for portfolio managers and traders worldwide through a proprietary menu of independent and innovative research products designed to work in conjunction with clients and their systems.

Barra LLC provides investment analytics, trading solutions and software to investment professions. The company provides risk management technology for investment professionals. Barra was founded by Barr Rosenberg and Andrew Rudd in 1975 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.