BrightSphere Investment Group, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the provision of asset management services. The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and currently employs 354 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2014-10-09. The firm provides investment management services globally, predominantly to institutional investors. The firm operates through its subsidiary, Acadian Asset Management LLC (Acadian). Acadian is a systematic investment manager of active global, international equity and alternative strategies. Through Acadian, the Company offers institutional investors across the globe access to a wide array of quantitative and solutions-based strategies designed to meet a range of risk and return objectives. The firm operates through one segment: the Quant & Solutions segment. Quant & Solutions is comprised of strategies that leverage data and technology in a computational, factor-based investment process across a range of asset classes in developed and emerging markets including global, non-United States and small-cap equities, as well as managed volatility, multi-asset, equity alternatives and long/short strategies.