Private company

Baring Asset Management

Logo: Barings, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

American investment management firm

Barings LLC is a major American alternative investment management firm. It operates as a subsidiary of MassMutual Financial Group, a diversified financial services organization, with a minority investment from MS&AD Insurance Group, a Japanese insurance company.2 It is part of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1989Founded1

Barings LLC is a major American alternative investment management firm. It operates as a subsidiary of MassMutual Financial Group, a diversified financial services organization, with a minority investment from MS&AD Insurance Group, a Japanese insurance company.2

Corporate structure

Baring Asset Management is part of a group headed by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. 71 entities, 9 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
    • Baring Asset Management Charlotte
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    • Annuity Investors Variable Account A Subsidiary · Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
    • Annuity Investors Variable Account B Subsidiary · Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
    • Annuity Investors Variable Account C Subsidiary · Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
    • BARING ASSET MANAGEMENT (ASIA) LIMITED (霸菱資產管理(亞洲)有限公司) Subsidiary · Hong Kong, Hong Kong
      • 베어링자산운용 Subsidiary · 100% · Seoul, South Korea
    • Barings Core Fund Malmo AB (Barings Core Fund Malmö AB) Subsidiary · Stockholm, Sweden
    • BARINGS JAPAN LIMITED (ベアリングス・ジャパン株式会社) Subsidiary · 東京, Japan
    • Barings Real Estate European Value Add I SCSp Subsidiary · Luxembourg, Luxembourg
    • BERKSHIRE WAY LLC Subsidiary · Wilmington, Delaware, United States
    • C.M. Life Insurance Company Subsidiary · Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
    • CAPSEC LLC Subsidiary · Wilmington, Delaware, United States
    • EM OPPORTUNITIES LLC Subsidiary · Wilmington, Delaware, United States
    • Gryphon Capital Investments Pty Ltd Subsidiary · Brisbane, Australia
    • Kiinteisto Oy Espoon Siltakatu 11 (Kiinteistö Oy Espoon Siltakatu 11) Subsidiary · Helsinki, Finland
    • Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company - Separate Account No. B44 Subsidiary · Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
    • Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company - Separate Investment Account B35 Subsidiary · Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
    • Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company - Separate Investment Account B42 Subsidiary · Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
    • Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company - Separate Investment Account B43 Subsidiary · Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
    • Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company - Separate Investment Account B46 Subsidiary · Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
    • Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company - Separate Investment Account B55 Subsidiary · Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
    • Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company - Separate Investment Account SB22 Subsidiary · Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
    • Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company - Separate Investment Account SB23 Subsidiary · Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
    • Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company Separate Investment Account B39 Subsidiary · Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
    • Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company Separate Investment Account B47 Subsidiary · Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
    • Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company Separate Investment Account B48 Subsidiary · Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
    • and 33 more

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

Investment adviser

Baring Asset Management is registered with the SEC as an investment adviser. This is what it reports on Form ADV, the registration every adviser files and keeps current.

Who owns it

Owners of 5% or more as the firm lists them (Schedule A), and the owners of those owners up the chain (Schedule B).

  • BARINGS EUROPE LIMITEDowns 75% or more of BARINGS GUERNSEY LIMITED SHAREHOLDER, since 02/2012
  • BARINGS GUERNSEY LIMITEDowns 75% or more of BARINGS EUROPE LIMITED SHAREHOLDER, since 12/2017
  • BARINGS LLCowns 75% or more of BARINGS GUERNSEY LIMITED SHAREHOLDER, since 03/2004
  • MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFEowns 75% or more of MASSMUTUAL, since 07/2004
  • MASSMUTUAL HOLDING LLCowns 75% or more of MM ASSET MANAGEMENT HOLDING LLC, since 02/2012
  • MM ASSET MANAGEMENT HOLDING LLCowns 75% or more of BARINGS LLC, since 02/2012

Disciplinary record

The firm answered yes to 2 of the disciplinary questions on Form ADV (Item 11). A yes can concern the firm itself or an affiliate.

  • Any other federal regulatory agency, any state regulatory agency, or any foreign financial regulatory authority has found the firm or an advisory affiliate to have been involved in a violation of investment-related regulations or statutes.
  • In the past ten years, any other federal regulatory agency, any state regulatory agency, or any foreign financial regulatory authority has entered an order against the firm or an advisory affiliate in connection with an investment-related activity.

The 4 records concern an affiliate (4), which reports the details on its own Form ADV.

What it owns

What Baring Asset Management reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

Products and brands

  • asset management

Listed on Wikidata.1

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Also owns

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 1989Founded Founded1

Sources

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