Company type | Private |
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Founded | 1994 |
Founder | Nancy Zimmerman Gabriel Sunshine |
Headquarters | 15th floor, 888 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts , |
Key people | John Spinney (chief operating officer) Kirstan Barnett (general counsel & chief compliance officer) Geraldine Acuña-Sunshine (senior counsel) Wendy Sheu (Chief Compliance Officer) |
Total assets | $26.6 billion (May 2019) |
Number of employees | 100+ |
Website | bracebridgecapital.com |
Bracebridge Capital is a hedge fund based in Boston, Massachusetts. It was co-founded by Nancy Zimmerman and Gabriel Sunshine. [1] It manages funds from the endowments of Yale University and Princeton University. It also made $1.5 billion from the Argentine debt restructuring. As of February 2016, it had $10.3 billion of assets under management, making it the largest hedge fund managed by a woman in the world. Sunshine owns a 5% stake in Bracebridge as of 2017. [2]
Bracebridge Capital was co-founded by Nancy Zimmerman and Gabriel Brendan Sunshine in 1994. [3] Zimmerman is a Brown alumna, former Goldman Sachs employee, and the wife of Harvard professor Andrei Shleifer. [4] [5]
Sunshine is a Harvard graduate, class of 1991, and the husband of Geraldine Acuña-Sunshine, [6] the co-chair of the Harvard College Fund, [7] who is also senior counsel to Bracebridge Capital. [8] [9] Its chief operating officer is John Spinney.
The fund had a 10% annual return from 1994 to 2016. [4] Initially, it received $50 million from Tom Steyer's Farallon Capital and David F. Swensen, who runs Yale University's endowment. [4] Later, Andrew K. Golden, the manager of Princeton University's endowment, also became a major investor in Bracebridge Capital. [4] By 2012, it had $5.8 billion of assets under management. [4]
By February 2016, it had assets of $10.3 billion, [10] making it the largest hedge fund managed by a woman in the world. [4] It also had more than 100 employees by February 2016. [4]
In March 2016, it was announced that the firm would receive $1.5 billion from the Argentine debt restructuring. [11] It was one of four hedge funds which former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner called "vultures” and “financial terrorists." [12]
Bracebridge Capital, another holdout hedge fund, will be paid $1.15 billion, representing a 952 percent return on bonds with principal worth $120 million, according to the data.
The four holdout firms, including Aurelius, a hedge fund run by Mark Brodsky, a former trader at Mr. Singer's Elliott Management; Davidson Kempner; and Bracebridge Capital, have agreed not to try to prevent Argentina from raising new money, which it will need to do in order to pay the settlements it has made.