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Lord Abbett
Lord Abbett, founded in 1929, is a privately held asset management partnership operating active fixed-income and equity strategies from Jersey City.
Lord Abbett
Lord Abbett is an SEC-registered investment adviser in Jersey City, NJ, founded in 1970. The firm oversees $270.4 billion in assets, with $270.1 billion managed on a discretionary basis. It employs 821 staff and has 191 investment advisers.
General information
Firm type
Generalist
Year founded
1929
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
Jersey City
Corporate office
Jersey City, NJ, United States
Principals
Douglas Sieg
Managing Partner
Frequently asked questions
Who owns Lord Abbett?
Lord Abbett is a private partnership owned by its roughly 50 managing partners. It is not publicly traded and has no external parent company. The partnership structure requires managing partners to invest their own capital alongside client assets.
How is Lord Abbett governed?
Douglas Sieg has served as Managing Partner since 2018, succeeding Robert Dow. Strategic decisions are made collectively by the partnership's managing partners, a structure that has remained intact since the firm's founding in 1929.
What asset classes does Lord Abbett manage?
Lord Abbett runs active strategies across fixed income, equities, and multi-asset solutions. Its fixed-income platform includes investment-grade credit, high-yield bonds, bank loans, and municipal bonds. The equity platform covers U.S. growth, value, and international mandates.
Does Lord Abbett offer ETFs?
In April 2024, Lord Abbett filed to launch its first actively managed ETFs. The initial filings covered five fixed-income strategies designed to convert existing mutual fund mandates into the ETF wrapper (per Morningstar, April 2024).
Is Lord Abbett a family office or an asset manager?
Lord Abbett is a traditional asset manager, not a family office. It was founded in 1929 as an investment partnership and has since grown into a diversified manager serving institutions, intermediaries, and individual investors.
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