Brookfield’s opportunistic credit strategy drives asset management inflows

Brookfield saw $112bn (£82.3bn) of inflows into its asset management business in 2025, driven by fundraising across its flagship strategies, including the final close of its opportunistic credit strategy.

The global investment firm reported overall “strong” financial results for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total consolidated net income of $1.7bn in the fourth quarter and $3.2bn for the year. 

In its asset management business, of the $112bn in total fundraising for the year, $24bn came from Brookfield’s retail and wealth clients. 

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The firm attributed this to its range of complementary strategies, as well as “strong” fundraising across its flagship strategies, having announced final closes of its energy transition strategy, opportunistic credit strategy, and its largest opportunistic real estate strategy to date during the year.

Fee-bearing capital rose 12 per cent to $603bn, supporting a 22 per cent increase in fee-related earnings to $3bn for the year.

Brookfield said it is well positioned to deliver “another year of meaningful growth”, with the launch of its latest flagship private equity fund and inaugural AI infrastructure fund.

Brookfield’s wealth solutions business saw distributable earnings increase 24 per cent compared to the prior year, which it attributed to strong investment performance and continued expansion of the insurance asset base. 

During the year, $13bn was deployed into Brookfield-managed strategies across its investment portfolio at an average yield of 8.5 per cent.

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“We delivered strong financial results in 2025, supported by our asset management business recording $112bn of inflows, the continued growth of our wealth solutions business, and our operating businesses generating resilient and growing cash flows,” said Nick Goodman, president of Brookfield Corporation.

“We were active on many fronts throughout the year, completing a record $91bn of monetisations, deploying $126bn of capital, and repurchasing over $1bn of our shares.” 

Goodman added: “With record deployable capital of $188bn and meaningful positive momentum across our business, we remain well positioned to deliver strong financial results for our shareholders.”

In October last year, Brookfield announced it will acquire the remaining 26 per cent stake in alternative investment manager Oaktree Capital Management, for approximately $3bn.