Brookfield Asset Management is a leading global alternative asset manager with over US$1 trillion in assets under management, listed on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange (ticker: BAM). It was separated from Brookfield Corporation as a publicly traded pure-play asset management company in 2022. Drawing on a heritage as an owner and operator of real assets extending over 125 years, Brookfield invests on behalf of over 2,400 institutional clients worldwide — including public and private pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, insurance companies, and private wealth investors — across infrastructure, renewable power and transition, private equity, real estate, and credit.
Website: bam.brookfield.com
Founder: Separated from Brookfield Corporation; the broader Brookfield enterprise traces its operating history to 1899
Company type: Publicly listed alternative asset manager (TSX/NYSE: BAM); subsidiary of Brookfield Corporation
Regions served: Global; more than 32 offices across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East
What does Brookfield Asset Management offer?
Brookfield Asset Management provides a diversified range of alternative investment strategies to institutional and private wealth clients globally. Its principal investment platforms are:
- infrastructure — one of the largest infrastructure investment managers in the world, targeting utilities, transport, midstream energy, and data infrastructure
- renewable power and transition — wind, solar, hydro, and energy storage assets across multiple continents
- private equity — focused on essential industrial and business services businesses through operational transformation and long-term value creation
- real estate — spanning core-plus, value-add, and opportunistic strategies across office, retail, multifamily, logistics, and hospitality assets globally
- credit — spanning investment-grade and below-investment-grade credit, including direct lending, structured credit, and real estate debt
- private wealth products, including the Brookfield Private Equity Fund (Canada) (BPE-CAD), launched in October 2025 as a low-minimum monthly-subscription evergreen vehicle for the Canadian advisor market
The firm employs over 5,800 investment and asset management professionals and manages its portfolios with a team of operational specialists who run portfolio companies and assets on a day-to-day basis — a capability that distinguishes Brookfield from financial-only sponsors and underpins its focus on value creation through operational improvement over long holding periods.
Brookfield Asset Management in the market
Brookfield Asset Management is among a small group of alternative asset managers globally — alongside Blackstone, Apollo, and KKR — to have crossed the US$1 trillion AUM threshold. It serves over 2,400 institutional clients and approximately 60,000 private wealth clients who together account for over 8% of capital raised, according to the firm's own filings. The firm's investment banking group advised on more than US$850 billion in completed transactions between January 2021 and December 2025.
Brookfield's competitive differentiation lies in its operational depth. Unlike pure financial sponsors, the firm employs thousands of operational professionals who manage real assets — power plants, toll roads, logistics networks, and industrial businesses — on a day-to-day basis. That ownership capability enables Brookfield to pursue complex, capital-intensive transactions in sectors that require genuine operational expertise to create value, and to hold assets for long periods aligned with the time horizons of its pension fund and sovereign wealth fund clients. Canadian pension funds, including CPP Investments, have been frequent co-investors alongside Brookfield across multiple asset classes and geographies.
In Canada specifically, Brookfield has a significant presence through its Toronto operations, its TSX listing, and its long history of Canadian infrastructure and real estate investment. The launch in 2025 of BPE-CAD — a retail-accessible, monthly-subscription private equity vehicle for the Canadian advisor market — signals a deliberate move to extend the firm's institutional alternative investment franchise to a broader investor base, a strategy that mirrors what the largest global alternative managers are pursuing across most developed markets as wealth management channels become an increasingly important source of capital.
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