if you wanted to attach an investment theme to the past few years it would be dealing with uncertainty for afsaneh mashayekhi beschloss that means thriving during challenging times “we all learned we have to embrace uncertainty to be more forward looking” beschloss 65 tells barron’s for beschloss who launched rockcreek group nearly two decades ago that means investing while knowing that supplychain disruptions and inflation will last longer than many expected it also means navigating the investing landscape when unlike 2021 the federal reserve can no longer be expected to keep monetary policy accommodative 100 most influential women in us finance looking into 2022—a year already marred by russia’s invasion of ukraine—beschloss is trying to see longerterm opportunities particularly related to energy independence rockcreek has long focused on sustainable investing but beschloss believes that the disruptions spurred by recent crises may compel countries to embrace renewableenergy sources they control rockcreek a washingtonbased firm that invests on behalf of foundations endowments universities and pensions increased new assets by 20 over the past year and now manages 17 billion beschloss is proud to note that since the firm’s 2003 founding it has also invested more than 75 billion with emerging and diverse managers