Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. is a Canadian-American alternative asset manager. The company was founded in December 2022 as a spin-off of the asset management operations of Brookfield Corporation. At its inception, the company was headquartered in Toronto, and in December 2024 transferred its offices to New York City. Brookfield Asset Management is 13.8 per cent owned by Brookfield Corporation.
Brookfield Asset Management is run by chief executive J. Bruce Flatt, who serves additionally as chief executive of Brookfield Corporation. In late 2024, the company's assets reached the $1 trillion mark, making it one of the world's largest investment firms.
History
On Thursday, 12 May 2022, Brookfield announced that it would spin off its asset management business into a new publicly traded company worth US$80million. Three months earlier, Brookfield had hinted at the idea of separating its operations. In the announcement by chief executive Bruce Flatt, which was made in his quarterly letter to shareholders, he stated that "the bottom line is that today's Brookfield consists of two businesses that are very different in nature but work together very well. Looking forward, we believe that each of these businesses has incredible potential to expand further. To achieve this growth, however, we have concluded that they should now be separated, while preserving the benefits of their complementary nature and alignment." The existing company, then called Brookfield Asset Management, would be renamed Brookfield Corporation, while the spin-off would use the Brookfield Asset Management name. At the time of the spin off, Brookfield Corporation would own 75 per cent of the share of the new company, and 25 per cent would be released to the public.[1] The decision added a further layer to one of the world's most complex corporations. In a profile of the company in the Financial Times, Mark Vandevelde described Brookfield as "not so much a company as a giant, triangular jigsaw board that spreads across the world and covers assets worth $500bn."[2] In August 2022, Brookfield announced that the chairman of the spin off would be former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor Mark Carney.[3] Bruce Flatt, chief executive of Brookfield, would be chief executive of the new company, while Connor Teskey would serve as president. Teskey had joined Brookfield in 2012, and in the fall of 2020 was made chief executive of Brookfield Renewable Partners. When Flatt recruited Carney to join Brookfield in 2020 as vice-chairman and head of transition investing, Flatt sold the banker partly on the opportunity to work with Teskey.[4]
The new Brookfield Asset Management began trading on Monday, 12 December 2022.[5] In March 2023, BAM purchased the remaining 50 per cent of Spanish solar developer X-ELIO, whose equity was valued at $2 billion.[6] Also in the first quarter of 2023, BAM raised its stake in Oaktree Capital Management to 68 per cent.[7] Then, in June 2023, BAM acquired Middle Eastern credit card processor Network International for £2.2 billion.[8] That same month, the company acquired American Equity Investment Life for $4.3 billion. In the summer of 2023, BAM partnered with Sequoia Heritage to form Pinegrove Capital to invest in venture capital-backed companies. Each partner would contribute $250 million, and the company hoped to raise $2 billion.[9] In April 2024, BAM entered talks to buy a majority stake in Castlelake, an aircraft leasing company, for $1.5 billion.[10] In 2023, BAM had raised $61 billion of investment capital by September, with and added $26 billion in the third quarter alone. The company suggested it would attempt to raise $150 billion in the 2023 calendar year. Flatt stated that "most of the way to that $150 billion is very visible through insurance and flagship strategies."[11]
In March 2024, the company announced that Hadley Peer Marshall would succeed Bahir Manios as chief financial officer.[12] By the summer of 2024, the company announced that it was nearing $1 trillion of assets under administration.[13] In the third quarter of 2024, BAM collected $21 billion in capital, which put its assets over the $1 trillion mark.[14]
In September 2024, BAM suggested it might move its headquarters to the United States in an effort to be included in more American stock market indexes.[15] Two months later, the company announced the move from Toronto to New York City. The move was part of a wider restructuring, whereby BAM would acquire 100 per cent of the Brookfield group's asset management operations by acquiring the 73 per cent stake in the company held by Brookfield Corporation.[16] On 16 January 2025, Carney stepped down as chairman to run in the 2025 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election.[17] Carney was succeeded as chairman by chief executive Flatt.[18]
↑ David Milstead, "Brookfield says it will spin off stake in asset management business," Globe and Mail, (13 May 2022).
↑ Mark Vandevelde, "Brookfield: inside the $500bn secretive investment firm," Financial Times (5 February 2020).
↑ David Milstead, "Brookfield income falls as rates rise," Globe and Mail, (12 August 2022), B4.
↑ James Bradshaw, "Corporate Citizen of the Year: Brookfield's Connor Teskey is moving the needle on the energy shift (and making money, too)," Globe and Mail, (22 November 2023).
↑ David Leeder, "Tuesday's analyst upgrades and downgrades," Globe and Mail, (13 December 2022).
↑ Ivan Levingston, "Brookfield takes full control of solar group," Financial Times, (21 March 2023), 6.
↑ Antoine Gara, "Brookfield predicts consolidation in asset management amid downturn," Financial Times, (10 May 2023).
↑ Will Louch, "Brookfield strikes £2.2bn deal for London-listed payment processor," Financial Times, (9 June 2023).
↑ Antoine Gara and George Hammond, "Brookfield and Sequoia offshoot launch fund to target discount-priced start-ups," Financial Times, (3 August 2023).
↑ Antoine Gara and Eric Platt, "Brookfield in talks to buy majority stake in $22bn airline lender," Financial Times.
↑ Luis Garcia, "Brookfield Asset Management Sees $150 Billion Fundraising Goal Within Reach," Wall Street Journal, (7 November 2023).
↑ Adriano Marchese, "Brookfield Asset Management Names Hadley Peer Marshall as New CFO," Wall Street Journal, (19 March 2024).
↑ Amelia Pollard, "Brookfield says it is nearing $1tn assets under management," Financial Times, (7 August 2024).
↑ Luis Garcia, "Brookfield Asset Management Sees Exit Deals Boosting Fundraising," Wall Street Journal (5 November 2024).
↑ Robin Wigglesworth, "Brookfield wants to move for some US index fund love," Financial Times, (12 September 2024).
↑ Barbara Shecter, "Brookfield moves headquarters to New York in restructuring aimed at boosting investor base," Financial Post, (2 November 2024), 2.
↑ Vipal Monga and Paul Vieira, "Canada's New Leader Mark Carney Embodies Trump's Least Favorite Things," Wall Street Journal, (11 March 2025).
↑ James Bradshaw, "Mark Carney cuts business ties to Brookfield and other boards as he launches bid for Liberal leadership," Globe and Mail, (16 January 2025).
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