About Bain Capital Public Equity

Founded by Bain Capital as Brookside Capital in 1996, Bain Capital Public Equity is a global equity investment manager applying a deep set of insights to both public and private investments. We are principal investors who employ a fundamental, bottom-up research process to identify the best investment opportunities around the world. We tackle analysis with open minds and a rigorous approach focusing on industry attractiveness, competitive positioning, and overall management capability. Rooted in a belief that businesses create value over a multi-year time horizon, we develop deep partnerships leading to stronger conviction around our investments.

Our Approach

Fundamental analysis and bottom-up stock picking.

We employ a fundamental bottom-up research process, which emphasizes primary due diligence and field-based research to gain conviction around our investment ideas.

Alignment of interests.

As the largest investor in our strategies, our people are strongly aligned with our investors, sharing the goal of maximizing returns over a full market cycle.

Multi-year investment horizon.

Our approach is rooted in the belief that businesses create value over a multi-year time horizon. For each industry of focus, we seek to identify the ‘big ideas’ and define the variables that will drive real value over time.