BrightSphere Investment Team Inc. Announces Agreement to Sell Campbell World-wide, LLC

BOSTON–(Business WIRE)–BrightSphere Investment Group Inc. (NYSE: BSIG) currently declared that it has entered into a definitive settlement to provide its 75% ownership interest in Campbell Worldwide, LLC, (“Campbell”) to J.P. Morgan Asset Administration (“J.P. Morgan”), a division of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM). As component of the transaction, J.P. Morgan will also obtain the 25% possession curiosity in Campbell held by Campbell administration. Monetary terms of the transaction were being not disclosed.

In addition to getting BrightSphere’s equity fascination in Campbell, J.P. Morgan has also agreed to purchase BrightSphere’s co-investments in Campbell Funds. The transaction is issue to customary closing problems and is expected to near in the 3rd quarter of 2021.

Suren Rana, BrightSphere’s President and Main Government Officer said, “This transaction decidedly transforms our enterprise from a multi-boutique asset supervisor to Acadian, a one, full-scale differentiated organization that is a marketplace chief in the quant sector. Just after the completion of the sale of Campbell World-wide and the other introduced sale transactions in the coming months, BrightSphere’s sole enterprise will be Acadian, with AUM of $111 billion as of March 31, 2021, which has been producing outperformance throughout various time periods by its quantitative approaches and options. As of March 31, 2021, 86%, 74%, 57%, 85% and 91% of Acadian’s techniques by income conquer their benchmarks around the prior QTD, 1-, 3-, 5-, and 10-calendar year intervals. Moreover, the Corporation will have roughly $1.3 billion in Pro Forma dollars¹.”

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC acted as monetary advisor to BrightSphere on the transaction, even though Ropes & Grey LLP served as legal advisor to BrightSphere.

About BrightSphere

BrightSphere is a diversified, international asset administration firm. By means of Acadian Asset Administration, its sole working subsidiary with about $111 billion of property beneath administration as of March 31, 2021², BrightSphere delivers institutional buyers throughout the globe obtain to a wide array of leading quantitative and options-primarily based tactics intended to meet up with a array of risk and return targets. For far more information and facts, remember to take a look at BrightSphere’s web-site at www.bsig.com. Information that may perhaps be essential to investors will be routinely posted on our web-site.

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¹ Professional forma dollars equilibrium comprised of $451 million of dollars on harmony sheet as of 3/31, additionally $625 million introduced just after tax proceeds from the sale of Landmark, completed June 2, 2021, as well as $196 million anticipated after tax proceeds from the sale of Thomson, Siegal and Walmsley.

² Reflects the introduced divestitures of Campbell Global, Thompson Siegal & Walmsley, and Expenditure Counselors of Maryland, and provides impact for the completed sale of Landmark Associates LLC, which was concluded on June 2, 2021.