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Bridge Growth Partners (est. in 2013) is an American private equity fund that invests in technology and financial services companies. [4] Bridge Growth's portfolio holdings include BackOffice Associates, Accedian , Finalsite, Salient CRGT , and Solace Corporation .
In July 2021, Bridge held an initial public offering becoming a listed company on the New York Stock Exchange at $16 per share. [5] [8] [9] In February 2023, Bridge acquired private equity firm, Newbury Partners in $320.1 million all-cash deal so it could perform activities in the private-equity secondary market. [10] [11]
Each year Private Equity International publishes the PEI 300, a ranking of the largest private-equity firms by how much capital they have raised for private-equity investment in the last five years. [1] In the 2024 ranking, Blackstone Inc. retained the top spot from KKR. [2]
By the end of 1983, Eaton Vance was managing 23 mutual funds and numerous individual and company accounts, with over $2.3 billion in their accounts. The company's major products were 34 low-risk and tax-free funds by late 1989. The next year, Eaton Vance started promoting its funds via banks, which resulted in a sales profit of $450 million.
In 2020, PineBridge acquired Benson Elliot Capital, a UK based private equity real estate firm. [13] The new entity known as PineBridge Benson Elliot LLP then acquired housing developer, Sigma Capital Group in 2021. [14] In December 2024, the institutional asset management arm of Metlife agreed to acquire PineBridge from PCG for $1.2 billion. [15]
Bridgewater's Pure Alpha fund "spared its investors" from most of the stock market's "meltdown" in 2008, [37] but this strategy was unsuccessful in 2009, when economic growth responded faster than anticipated and the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased by 19% while the company's Pure Alpha fund reportedly gained only 2% to 4%. [37]
The fund's concept is to "preserve capital and provide low risk growth" through diversification. [8] From 1982 through 2008, the fund's assets under management (AUM) were less than $50 million but they grew to $1 billion in 2007, $3.4 billion in 2008 and $5 billion in 2009. [4]
Bridgepoint was founded as NatWest Equity Partners, a private equity firm part of NatWest. One of its early employees was William Jackson, who joined as a graduate in 1986. [2] The firm was renamed Bridgepoint Capital in May 2000 following a management buyout. [3] [4] In May 2001, Bridgepoint closed its first fund following its independence ...