Bosto, MA-based Meketa Investment Group, an investment consulting and advisory firm, is opening a new office in London.

Boston, MA-based Meketa Investment Group, an investment consulting and advisory firm, is opening a new office in London.

Meketa said in a statement that the London office will provide research support to Meketa Investment Group’s US offices on public market, private market and risk management strategies across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The office opens on June 12 and will be staffed with three full-time investment professionals.

“As a leading advisory firm with an ever more geographically diverse client base, establishing a presence in Europe is an appropriate and timely step in our evolution. While continuing to grow our firm we remain committed to providing the highest level of client service. In serving the EMEA markets we will employ the same client-centered, research-focused approach that has served us so well since our founding,” said James Meketa, founder and chief executive of the firm.

Meketa provides general investment consulting and advisory services as well as specialized private markets consulting and advisory services to institutional investors including public, corporate and union employee benefit plans, university endowments, charitable organizations, insurance companies, and family offices on a discretionary and non-discretionary basis.

Founded in the Boston area in 1978, the firm expanded to the San Diego area in 2003 and to Miami in 2011. Meketa Investment Group employs more than 100 professionals and consults on more than $270 billion in assets for over 90 clients whose total aggregate assets exceed $600 billion.