Jeremy Grantham is a British investor and co-founder and chief investment strategist of Grantham, Mayo, van Otterloo (GMO), a Boston-based asset management firm. GMO had more than US$118 billion in assets under management as of March 2015. He has been a vocal critic of various governmental responses to the Global Financial Crisis from 2007 to 2010. Grantham started one of the world's first index funds in the early 1970s. In 2011 he was included in the 50 Most Influential ranking of Bloomberg Markets magazine.