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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

(Mark one)

☒ ANNUAL REPORT UNDER SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.

Commission file number: 001-41563

BROOKFIELD ASSET MANAGEMENT LTD.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Brookfield Place

250 Vesey Street, 15th Floor

New York, NY10281-0221

(Address of principal executive offices)

(212)417-7000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class TradingSymbol(s) Name of each exchangeon which registered

Class A Limited Voting Shares BAM New York Stock Exchange

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

None

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes☒ No☐

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes☐No☒

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes☒ No☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§229.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes☒ No☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

Large accelerated filer ☒ Accelerated filer ☐

Non-accelerated filer ☐ Smaller reporting company ☐

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report. ☒

If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financial statements. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by any of the other registrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to §240.10D-1(b). ☐

Indicate by check mark whether registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act). Yes☐ No☒

As of June 30, 2024, the aggregate market value of the Class A Limited Voting Shares held by non-affiliates of the registrant was $16.0 billion.

As of March 7, 2025, the registrant had 1,637,295,707 Class A Limited Voting Shares and 21,280Class B Limited Voting Shares outstanding.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. (“BAM”) is a New York based asset manager, yet qualifies as an eligible Canadian issuer under the Multijurisdictional Disclosure System and as a “foreign private issuer” as such term is defined in Rule 405 under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Rule 3b-4 under the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Although, as a foreign private issuer, BAM is not required to do so, BAM intends to voluntarily file annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and current reports on Form 8-K with the SEC instead of filing the reporting forms available to foreign private issuers.

BAM intends to prepare and file a management information circular and related materials under Canadian requirements that will not be filed pursuant to Regulation 14A.

BROOKFIELD ASSET MANAGEMENT LTD.

FORM 10-K

For the Year Ended December 31, 2024

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I

Item 1. Business 10

Item 1A. Risk Factors 27

Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments 49

Item 1C. Cybersecurity 49

Item 2. Properties 49

Item 3. Legal Proceedings 50

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures 50

PART II

Item 6. [Reserved] 53

Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk 94

Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data 96

Item 9A. Controls and Procedures 196

Item 9B. Other Information 196

Item 9C. Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections 197

PART III

Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance 198

Item 11. Executive Compensation 209

Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services 239

PART IV

Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules 240

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CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This report contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and forward-looking information within the meaning of other relevant securities legislation, including applicable securities laws in Canada, which reflect our current views with respect to, among other things, our operations and financial performance. You can identify these forward-looking statements by the use of words such as “outlook”, “believe”, “think”, “expect”, “potential”, “continue”, “may”, “should”, “seek”, “approximately”, “predict”, “intend”, “will”, “plan”, “estimate”, “anticipate”, the negative version of these words, other comparable words or other statements that do not relate strictly to historical or factual matters. These statements identify prospective information. Important factors could cause actual results to differ, possibly materially, from those indicated in these statements. Forward-looking statements are based on our beliefs, assumptions and expectations of our future performance, taking into account all information currently available to us. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties and assumptions relating to our operations, financial results, financial condition, business prospects, growth strategy and liquidity.

We believe these factors include those described in the section entitled “Risk Factors” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K (our “Annual Report” or “report”). These factors should be read in conjunction with the other cautionary statements that are included in this report and in our other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). We do not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as required by law.

CERTAIN TERMS USED IN THIS REPORT

In this report, references to “BAM Ltd.” or “BAM” refer to Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. References to our “asset management business”, the “Asset Management Company”, “BAM ULC”, or the “Company” refer to Brookfield Asset Management ULC, and references to “we”, “us”, “our” means our asset management business and BAM, individually or collectively, where applicable. The term “BN” means Brookfield Corporation and its subsidiaries (including the perpetual affiliates (as defined below)) other than the Asset Management Company and its subsidiaries and does not, for greater certainty, include BAM, BWS (as defined below) or Oaktree (as defined below) and their affiliates. The term “Brookfield” means BAM, BN and the Asset Management Company, collectively.

Additional information about BAM is available on our website at https://bam.brookfield.com and on the EDGAR section of the SEC website at www.sec.gov. The information on our website is not, and shall not be deemed to be, a part of this report or incorporated by reference into any other filings we make with the SEC. Information is also available on the Canadian Securities Administrators’ (“CSA”) website at www.sedarplus.ca.

Unless the context suggests otherwise, references to:

•“2022 Arrangement” means the court approved plan of arrangement involving BN as a result of which (i) the shareholders of BN, while retaining their shares of BN, became shareholders of BAM, which acquired a 25% interest in our asset management business through common shares of the Asset Management Company, and (ii) BN changed its name from “Brookfield Asset Management Inc.” to “Brookfield Corporation”;

•“2025 Arrangement” has the meaning ascribed thereto on page 16;

•“2025 Plan of Arrangement” has the meaning ascribed thereto on page 16;

•“AEL” means American Equity Investment Life Holding Company;

•“AEL Mandate” means the May 2, 2024 acquisition of AEL by BWS through its subsidiary American National Group LLC. We manage AEL insurance capital under an investment management agreement with AEL operating companies;

•“AMSA” means the Asset Management Services Agreement dated December 9, 2022 between BAM and BAM ULC;

•“Asset Management Services Agreement” means the agreement dated November 8, 2022 between BAM and the Asset Management Company to govern the provision of services by BAM’s employees to the Asset Management Company on a cost recovery basis under a perpetual agreement, as further described in Note 1 “Organization” of the Consolidated Financial Statements of BAM;

•“Assets Under Management” or “AUM” has the meaning ascribed thereto under “Item 7 - Key Financial and Operating Measures”;

•“BAM Credit Facility” means the credit agreement dated November 8, 2022 between BAM and the Asset Management Company, pursuant to which the Asset Management Company has provided a five-year revolving $500 million credit facility to BAM, as further described under “Part II—Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Liquidity and Capital Resources”;

•“BAM Partnership” means BAM Partners Trust;

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•“BBU” means Brookfield Business Partners L.P., together with its subsidiaries including its paired corporation, Brookfield Business Corporation;

•“BCP” means Brookfield Capital Partners;

•“BEP” means Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P., together with its subsidiaries including its paired corporation, Brookfield Renewable Corporation;

•“BGTF” means Brookfield Global Transition Fund;

•“BIP” means Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P., together with its subsidiaries including its paired corporation, Brookfield Infrastructure Corporation;

•“BN” means Brookfield Corporation;

•“Board” means the board of directors of BAM;

•“BPG” means Brookfield Property Group, including Brookfield Property Partners L.P. and BN’s wholly-owned real estate directly held entities;

•“BPREP” means Brookfield Premier Real Estate Partners;

•“BPY” means Brookfield Property Partners, together with its subsidiaries;

•“Brookfield REIT” means Brookfield Real Estate Income Trust;

•“BSI” means Brookfield Special Investments;

•“BSIP” means Brookfield Super-Core Infrastructure Partners;

•“BSREP” means Brookfield Strategic Real Estate Partners;

•“BWS” means Brookfield Wealth Solutions Ltd., a paired entity to BN offering a range of retirement services, wealth protection products and tailored capital solutions;

•“Castlelake” means our 51% economic interest in Fee-Related Earnings, 7.5% interest in carried interest, 20% of returns from GP commitments of Castlelake, and 51% of GP commitments for in-market and future Castlelake funds acquired on September 16, 2024;

•“Class A Shares” means the class A limited voting shares in the capital of BAM;

•“Class B Shares” means the class B limited voting shares in the capital of BAM;

•“Code” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended;

•“Code of Conduct” means the code of business conduct and ethics of BAM;

•“corporate liquidity” consists of cash, short-term financial assets, as well as the undrawn portions of the $300 million revolving credit facility established on November 8, 2022, with BN as lender, and a $750 million five-year revolving credit facility established on August 29, 2024, through bilateral agreements with a group of third party lenders;

•“CORRA” means the Canadian Overnight Repo Rate Average;

•“CRA” means the Canada Revenue Agency;

•“CTF” means Catalytic Transition Fund;

•“Distributable Earnings”, a non-GAAP measure, has the meaning ascribed thereto under “Part II—Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Key Financial and Operating Measures”;

•“Fee-Bearing Capital”, a non-GAAP measure, has the meaning ascribed thereto under “Part II—Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Key Financial and Operating Measures”;

•“Fee-Related Earnings”, a non-GAAP measure, has the meaning ascribed thereto under “Part II—Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Key Financial and Operating Measures”;

•“Fee Revenues”, a non-GAAP measure, has the meaning ascribed thereto under “Part II—Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Key Financial and Operating Measures”;

•“Investment Company Act” means the United States Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended;

•“IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service;

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•“GEMS Education” means our warehoused investment in a Dubai-based international education provider, GEMS Education, acquired on July 12, 2024, as part of a Brookfield-led consortium of investors including the Asset Management Company, BSI, BWS, and certain co-investors;

•“Group deployable capital” consists of: (1) corporate liquidity of the Company and the perpetual affiliates, and (2) uncalled private fund commitments, which are third-party commitments available for drawdown in the private funds of our asset management business;

•“managed assets” means the businesses, operations and other assets managed by BN prior to completion of the 2022 Arrangement and to be managed by BAM and our asset management business following completion of the 2022 Arrangement;

•“mature fund” means a Brookfield fund which has already significantly deployed upon completion of the 2022 Arrangement;

•“new sponsored fund” or “new fund” means a Brookfield fund launched on or after the date of the 2022 Arrangement;

•“Oaktree” means Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., together with its affiliates, Oaktree Capital II, L.P. General (“OCM II General”), Oaktree Capital II, L.P. Manager (“OCM II Manager”), Oaktree Capital II, L.P New Fund (“OCM II New Fund”), Oaktree AIF Investments, L.P., Oaktree Capital Management (Cayman) L.P. and Oaktree Investment Holdings, L.P. and their consolidated subsidiaries;

•“perpetual affiliates” means BEP, BIP, BBU and BPG;

•“PFIC” means a passive foreign investment company for U.S. federal income tax purposes;

•“Pinegrove Ventures” means our acquisition of the investment platform business of SVB Financial Group, SVB Capital (rebranded to Pinegrove Ventures after acquisition), acquired on September 26, 2024 through Pinegrove Venture Partners (“Pinegrove”), our venture investment platform formed with Sequoia Heritage;

•“Pretium” means our 11% economic interest in Pretium acquired on June 29;

•“PVI” means Partners Value Investments L.P., a publicly-listed investment partnership whose principal business activity is owning equity interests in Brookfield for the long-term.

•“Relationship Agreement” means the agreement dated November 8, 2022 among BN, BAM and the Asset Management Company to govern aspects of their relationship following the 2022 Arrangement, as further described under Note 1 “Organization” of the Consolidated Financial Statements of BAM;

•“SOFR” means the Secured Overnight Financing Rate published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or a successor administrator);

•“Tax Act” means the Income Tax Act (Canada);

•“Transitional Services Agreement” means the agreement dated November 8, 2022 among BN, BAM and the Asset Management Company described under Note 1 “Organization” of the Consolidated Financial Statements of BAM;

•“Trust Agreement” means the agreement dated December 9, 2022 among BAM, the BAM Partnership and Computershare Trust Company of Canada relating to the Class B Shares

•“Uncalled Fund Commitments”, a non-GAAP measure, has the meaning ascribed thereto under “Part II—Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Key Financial and Operating Measures”;

•“U.S. Holder” is a beneficial owner of Class A Shares that for U.S. federal income tax purposes is: (1) an individual who is a citizen or resident of the United States, (2) a corporation (or other entity classified as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes) created or organized in the United States, any state thereof, or the District of Columbia, (3) an estate the income of which is subject to U.S. federal income taxation regardless of its source, or (4) a trust if (i) a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over the administration of the trust and one or more U.S. persons have the authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust, or (ii) the trust has a valid election in effect under applicable Treasury Regulations to be treated as a U.S. person for U.S. federal income tax purposes; and

•“Voting Agreement” means the agreement dated December 9, 2022 between BN and BAM providing for the election of directors of the Asset Management Company. The Voting Agreement was terminated on February 4, 2025 upon completion of the 2025 Arrangement.

BAM and the Asset Management Company prepare their financial statements in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”). This report discloses a number of non-GAAP financial and supplemental

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financial measures which are utilized in monitoring our asset management business, including for performance measurement, capital allocation and valuation purposes. BAM believes that providing these performance measures is helpful to investors in assessing the overall performance of our asset management business. These non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered as the sole measure of BAM's or our asset management business’ performance and should not be considered in isolation from, or as a substitute for, similar financial measures calculated in conformity with U.S. GAAP financial measures. These non-GAAP financial measures are not standardized financial measures and may not be comparable to similar financial measures used by other issuers. Non-GAAP measures include, but are not limited to: (i) distributable earnings (“Distributable Earnings”), (ii) fee revenues (“Fee Revenues”) and (iii) fee-related earnings (“Fee-Related Earnings” or “FRE”). Supplemental financial measures include assets under management (“AUM”), fee-bearing capital (“Fee-Bearing Capital”) and uncalled fund commitments (“Uncalled Fund Commitments”). The asset management business includes the asset management activities of Oaktree, an equity accounted affiliate, in its key financial and operating measures for the asset management business.

For more information on non-GAAP measures and other financial metrics, see “Part II—Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Key Financial and Operating Measures”. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable financial measures calculated and presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP, where applicable, are included in “Part II—Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP to Non-GAAP Measures” in this report.

The financial information contained in this report is presented in U.S. dollars and, unless otherwise indicated, all references to “$” are to U.S. dollars. All references to C$ are to Canadian dollars. All information in this report is presented as at December 31, 2024, unless otherwise noted.

SUMMARY RISK FACTORS

The following is a summary of the risk factors associated with investing in our securities. You should read this summary together with a more detailed description of these risks in the “Risk Factors” section of this report and in other filings that we make from time to time with the SEC.

We are subject to risks related to our business, including risks involving:

•volatility in the trading price of the Class A Shares;

•deficiencies in public company financial reporting and disclosures;

•the difficulty for investors to effect service of process and enforce judgments in various jurisdictions;

•being subjected to numerous laws, rules and regulatory requirements;

•the potential ineffectiveness of our policies to prevent violations of applicable law;

•foreign currency risk and exchange rate fluctuations;

•further increases in interest rates;

•political instability or changes in government;

•unfavorable economic conditions or changes in the industries in which we operate;

•inflationary pressures;

•catastrophicevents, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, or pandemics/epidemics;

•ineffective management of sustainability considerations, and inadequate or ineffective health and safety programs;

•failure of our information technology systems;

•us and our managed assets becoming involved in legal disputes;

•losses not covered by insurance;

•inability to collect on amounts owing to us;

•operating and financial restrictions through covenants in our loan, debt and security agreements;

•the material assets of BAM consist solely of its interest in the common shares of the Asset Management Company; and

•our liability for our asset management business.

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We are subject to risks related to our investment strategies, including risks involving:

•our ability to maintain our global reputation;

•risks related to our renewable power and transition, infrastructure, private equity, real estate, and credit strategies;

•the impact on growth in Fee-Bearing Capital of poor product development or marketing efforts;

•meeting our financial obligations due to our cash flow from our asset management business;

•our acquisitions;

•requirement of temporary investments and backstop commitments to support our asset management business;

•revenues impacted by a decline in the size or pace of investments made by our managed assets;

•our earnings growth can vary, which may affect our dividend and the trading price of the Class A Shares;

•exposed risk due to increased amount and type of investment products in our managed assets; and

•information barriers that may give rise to conflicts and risks.

We are subject to risks related to our organizational structure and ownership, including risks involving:

•BN exercising substantial influence over BAM;

•BN transferring the ownership of BAM to a third party;

•potential conflicts of interest with BN; and

•difficulty in maintaining our culture or managing our human capital.

We are subject to risks related to taxation, including risks involving:

•United States and Canadian taxation laws and changes thereto.

We caution that the foregoing list of important factors that may affect future results is not exhaustive and other factors could also adversely affect future results. Readers are urged to consider these risks, as well as other uncertainties, factors and assumptions carefully in evaluating the forward-looking statements and are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which are based only on information available to us as of the date of this report and such other date specified herein.

Certain of the information contained herein is based on or derived from information provided by independent third-party sources. While BAM believes that such information is accurate as of the date it was produced and that the sources from which such information has been obtained are reliable, BAM makes no representation or warranty, express or implied, with respect to the accuracy, reasonableness or completeness of any of the information or the assumptions on which such information is based, contained herein, including but not limited to, information obtained from third parties.

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PART I

ITEM 1. BUSINESS

Business Overview

We are a leading global alternative asset manager, headquartered in New York, NY, with over $1 trillion of Assets Under Management across renewable power and transition, infrastructure, private equity, real estate, and credit. Our objective is to generate attractive, long-term risk-adjusted returns for the benefit of our clients and shareholders.

We manage a range of public and private investment products and services for institutional and retail clients. We earn asset management income for doing so and ensure strong alignment of interests with our clients by investing Brookfield capital alongside them. Our access to large-scale capital enables us to make investments in sizeable, premier assets and businesses across geographies and asset classes that we believe few others can.

To do this, we leverage our team of over 2,500 investment and asset management professionals, our global reach, deep operating expertise, and access to large-scale capital to identify attractive investment opportunities and invest on a proprietary basis. Our investment approach and strong track record have been the foundation and driver of our growth.

We provide a highly diversified suite of alternative investment strategies to our clients and are constantly seeking to innovate new strategies to meet their needs. We have over 50 unique active strategies that span a wide range of risk-adjusted returns, including opportunistic, value-add, core, super-core, and credit. We evaluate the performance of these product offerings and our investment strategies using a number of non-GAAP measures. BAM utilizes Fee-Bearing Capital, Fee Revenues, Fee-Related Earnings and Distributable Earnings to assess the performance of our asset management business.

We are in a fortunate position to be trusted with our clients’ capital and our objective is to meet their financial goals and provide for a better financial future while providing market leading experience. Our team of over 300 client service professionals across 19 global offices are dedicated to ensuring that the business exceeds our clients’ service expectations.

We have over 2,300 clients, with some of our clients being among the world’s largest institutional investors, including sovereign wealth funds, pension plans, endowments, foundations, financial institutions, and insurance companies.

Our guiding principle is to operate our business and conduct our relationships with the highest level of integrity. Our emphasis on a culture of collaboration allows us to attract and retain top talent.

BAM's Class A Limited Voting Shares (the “Class A Shares”) are co-listed on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”) under the symbol “BAM”.

Value Creation

We create shareholder value by increasing the earnings profile of our asset management business. Alternative asset management businesses such as ours are typically valued based on a multiple of their Fee-Related Earnings and performance income. Accordingly, we create value by increasing the amount and quality of Fee-Related Earnings and performance income, net of associated costs. We achieve this by raising more Fee-Bearing Capital and delivering strong investment performance, which enables us to generate performance income, such as carried interest, while maintaining efficient operating margins.

As at December 31, 2024, we had Fee-Bearing Capital of $539 billion, of which 87% is long-dated or perpetual in nature, providing significant stability to our earnings profile. We consider Fee-Bearing Capital that is long-dated or perpetual in nature to be Fee-Bearing Capital relating to our long-term private funds, which are typically committed for at least 10 years with two one-year extension options, and Fee-Bearing Capital relating to our perpetual strategies, which include our permanent capital vehicles as well as capital we manage in our perpetual private fund and private wealth strategies. We seek to increase our Fee-Bearing Capital by growing the size of our existing product offerings and developing new strategies that cater to our clients’ investment needs. We also aim to deepen our existing institutional relationships, develop new institutional relationships, and access new distribution channels, such as high net worth individuals and retail.

As of December 31, 2024, we had a diversified client base of over 2,300 clients, which continues to grow. Our private wealth channel also continues to grow and represents over 8% of capital raised. We have a dedicated team of over 150 people that are focused on distributing and developing catered products to the private wealth channel.

As we grow our Fee-Bearing Capital, we earn incremental base management fees. In order to support this growth, we have grown our team of investment and asset management professionals. Our costs are predominantly in the form of compensation for the over 2,500 professionals we employ globally.

When deploying our clients’ capital, we seek to leverage our competitive advantages to acquire high-quality real assets and essential service businesses that form the backbone of the global economy. We use our global reach and access to scale capital to source

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attractive investment opportunities and leverage our deep operating expertise to underwrite investments and create value through active asset management. Our goal is to deliver superior investment returns to our clients and successfully doing so should result in the growth of realized carried interest over time.

We generate robust Distributable Earnings, which is a key measure of our financial performance. Distributable Earnings of BAM represent the Distributable Earnings from the Asset Management Company. BAM intends to pay out approximately 90% of its Distributable Earnings to shareholders quarterly and reinvest the balance back into the business, as discussed further in “Part II—Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Key Financial and Operating Measures.”

We are actively progressing new organic growth strategies, including transition and secondaries. We are also pursuing strategic M&A opportunities that would expand our capabilities. These new initiatives, in addition to our existing strategies, are expected to have a very meaningful impact on our growth trajectory in the long term as BAM continues to be the partner of choice for investors. An example of such growth is the partnership we formed with Oaktree in 2019, which deepened the capabilities we offer our clients and better positions us across market cycles. Such acquisitions may occur from time to time should they be additive to our franchise, attractive to our clients, and accretive to our shareholders.

Competitive Advantages

We seek to harness the following four distinct competitive advantages that enable us to consistently identify and invest in high-quality assets and create significant value in the assets that we invest in and operate on behalf of our clients.

Operating Expertise

We are supported globally by approximately 250,000 operating employees of our managed businesses, who are instrumental in maximizing the value and cash flows of our managed assets. We believe that strong operating experience is essential in maximizing efficiency and productivity – and ultimately, returns. We do this by maintaining a culture of long-term focus, alignment of interest and collaboration through the people we hire, our compensation philosophy, and our operating philosophy. This operating expertise developed through our heritage as an owner-operator is invaluable in underwriting investments, conducting thorough due diligence, and executing value-creating development and capital projects.

Global Reach

We invest on behalf of our clients in more than 30 countries on five continents around the world. We believe that our global reach allows us to diversify and identify a broad range of opportunities. We can invest where capital is scarce, and we believe that our scale enables us to move quickly and pursue multiple opportunities across different markets. Our global reach also allows us to operate our assets more effectively: we believe that a strong on-the-ground presence is critical to operating successfully in many of our markets, and many of our businesses are truly local. Furthermore, the combination of our strong local presence and global reach enables us to bring relationships and operating practices to bear across markets to enhance returns.

Large Scale

We had over $1 trillion in Assets Under Management and $539 billion in Fee-Bearing Capital as of December 31, 2024. We offer our investors a large selection of private funds that have global mandates and diversified strategies. Our access to large-scale, flexible capital allows us to pursue transactions on a scale beyond the reach of many, delivering superior risk-adjusted returns.

Brookfield Ecosystem

The unique intelligence we generate from the ongoing interconnectivity between our over $1 trillion of Assets Under Management, our global partnerships and our visibility into global capital flows helps us identify themes and trends in investing, spot pockets of value and source attractive investment opportunities as BAM continues to be the partner of choice for investors. This competitive advantage has allowed us to build leading positions in assets classes that are most in favor among investors and deliver strong investment returns to our clients across multiple business cycles.

Investment Process

Our Investment Process Leads to Value Creation

Earning robust returns on the investments we make on behalf of our clients enhances our ability to increase our Fee-Bearing Capital and generates carried interest, both of which grow our cash flows and create value for our shareholders.

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1. Raise Capital

As an asset manager, the starting point of the investment cycle is establishing new funds and other investment products for our clients. This in turn provides the capital to invest, from which we earn base management fees, incentive distributions and performance-based returns such as carried interest. Accordingly, we create value by increasing our amount of Fee-Bearing Capital and by achieving strong investment performance, which leads to growth in Fee-Bearing Capital and increased cash flows.

2. Identify and Invest in High-Quality Assets

We follow a value-based approach to investing and allocating capital. We believe that our disciplined approach, global reach and operating expertise afford us access to a wide range of potential opportunities and enable us to invest at attractive valuations and generate superior risk-adjusted returns for our clients. We also leverage our considerable expertise in executing recapitalizations, operational turnarounds and large development and capital projects, providing additional opportunities to deploy capital.

3. Secure Long-Term Financing

For our equity investments we finance the investments on behalf of our clients predominantly on a long-term investment-grade basis and asset-by-asset, which are primarily non-recourse. This financing approach provides us with considerable stability, improves our ability to withstand financial downturns and enables our asset management teams to focus on operations and other growth initiatives.

4. Enhance Value and Cash Flows Through Operating Expertise

We use our operating capabilities to increase the value of the assets within our product offerings and the cash flows they produce, and they help to protect our clients’ capital in adverse conditions. The combination of operating expertise, development capabilities and effective financing can help ensure that an investment’s full value creation potential is realized, which we believe is one of our most important competitive advantages.

5. Realize Capital from Asset Sales or Refinancing

We actively monitor opportunities to sell or refinance assets to generate proceeds for our investors. Capital generated in our limited life funds is returned to investors, and in the case of our perpetual funds, we then redeploy the capital to enhance returns. In many cases, returning capital from private funds completes the investment process, locks in investor returns and gives rise to performance income.

Products and Principal Strategies

Our products broadly fall into one of three categories: (i) long-term private funds, (ii) permanent capital vehicles and perpetual strategies, and (iii) liquid strategies. These are invested across five principal strategies: (i) renewable power and transition, (ii) infrastructure, (iii) real estate, (iv) private equity, and (v) credit.

Renewable Power and Transition

Overview

•We are one of the largest investors in renewable power and transition investments, with $126 billion of AUM and $58 billion of Fee-Bearing Capital as of December 31, 2024.

•We believe that the growing global demand for low-cost, low-carbon energy, especially amongst corporate off-takers, will lead to continued growth opportunities for us in the future. The investment environment for renewable power and transition remains favorable and we expect to continue to advance our substantial pipeline of renewable power and transition opportunities on behalf of our clients and managed assets.

•We have approximately 145 investment and asset management professionals globally that are focused on our renewable power and transition strategy, supported by approximately 17,800 operating employees in the renewable power and transition operating businesses that we manage. Our extensive experience and knowledge in this industry enable us to be a leader in all major technologies with deep operating and development capabilities.

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Our Products

Long-term Private Funds

•Brookfield Global Transition Fund (“BGTF”) is our flagship transition fund series which is focused on investments aimed at accelerating the global transition to a net-zero carbon economy. The mandate of this product is to assist utility, energy and industrial businesses to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, expand low-carbon and renewable energy production and advance sustainable solutions.

•Our recently launched Catalytic Transition Fund (“CTF”) focuses on directing capital into clean energy and transition assets in emerging markets in South and Central America, South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. CTF will help drive clean energy investment in emerging markets.

Permanent Capital Vehicles and Perpetual Strategies

•We also manage Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. (“BEP”), one of the world’s largest publicly traded renewable power platforms, which is listed on the NYSE and TSX and had a market capitalization of over $16.0 billion as of December 31, 2024.

Across our renewable power and transition products, we have invested on behalf of our clients in:

•Hydroelectric operations, through river systems and facilities that provide electricity and have grid stabilizing capabilities;

•Utility solar operations that harness energy from the sun to generate electricity;

•Distributed energy and storage which provides small-scale generation that can be locally installed, and pump storage facilities;

•Wind operations that use turbines to create electricity; and

•Sustainable solutions including renewable natural gas, carbon capture and storage, recycling, cogeneration biomass, nuclear services, and power transformation.

Infrastructure

Overview

•We are one of the world’s largest investment managers in infrastructure, with $202 billion of AUM and $97 billion of Fee-Bearing Capital as of December 31, 2024.

•We focus on acquiring high-quality real assets and operating businesses on behalf of our clients that deliver essential goods and services, diversified across the utilities, transport, midstream and data infrastructure sectors. We partner closely with management teams to enable long-term success through operational and other improvements.

•We have approximately 220 investment and asset management professionals globally that are focused on our infrastructure strategy, supported by approximately 61,000 operating employees in the infrastructure operating businesses that we manage.

Our Products

Long-term Private Funds

•Brookfield Infrastructure Fund (“BIF”) is our flagship infrastructure fund series. In this product offering, we invest on behalf of our clients in high-quality infrastructure assets on a value basis and seek to add value through the investment life cycle by utilizing our operations-oriented approach.

•Brookfield Infrastructure Structured Solutions Fund (“BISS”) seeks to invest structured equity and non-control common equity in the infrastructure mid-market. The fund is focused on deploying our deep capabilities to partner with sponsors, developers, and corporates to access attractive development opportunities.

Permanent Capital Vehicles and Perpetual Strategies

•We manage Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. (“BIP”), one of the largest, pure-play, publicly traded global infrastructure platforms, which is listed on the NYSE and TSX and had a market capitalization of $26.3 billion as of December 31, 2024.

•We manage Brookfield Super-Core Infrastructure Partners (“BSIP”), which is our perpetual infrastructure private fund strategy. In this product offering, we invest on behalf of our clients in core infrastructure assets in developed markets, with a focus on yield, diversification, and inflation-protection.

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•We also manage Brookfield Infrastructure Income Fund, a semi-liquid infrastructure strategy, offering private wealth investors access to our best-in-class infrastructure platform.

The infrastructure investments that we manage provide a diversified exposure for our clients to scarce, high-quality businesses that benefit from significant barriers to entry and deliver essential goods and services to generate resilient and inflation-protected cash flow streams. Through the various products outlined, we have invested in:

•Regulated or contracted businesses that earn a return on an asset base, including electricity and gas connections, natural gas pipelines and electricity transmission lines;

•Systems involved in the movement of freight, commodities and passengers, including rail operations, toll roads, terminal and export facilities;

•Assets that handle the movement and storage of commodities from a source of supply to a demand center, including transmission pipelines, natural gas process plants and natural gas storage; and

•Businesses that provide essential services and critical infrastructure to transmit and store data globally, including telecom towers and active rooftop sites, fiber optic cable and data centers.

Real Estate

Overview

•We are one of the world’s largest investment managers in real estate, with over $271 billion of AUM and $94 billion of Fee-Bearing Capital as of December 31, 2024.

•We have invested, on behalf of clients, in iconic properties in the world’s most dynamic markets with the goal of generating stable and growing distributions for our investors while protecting them against downside risk.

•We have approximately 650 investment and asset management professionals that are focused on generating superior returns across our real estate strategies, supported by approximately 24,500 operating employees in the real estate operating businesses that we manage.

Our Products

Long-term Private Funds

•Our opportunistic real estate flagship fund series is Brookfield Strategic Real Estate Partners (“BSREP”). Through this product, we invest globally across various sectors and geographies on behalf of our clients in high-quality real estate with a focus on large, complex, distressed assets, turnarounds, and recapitalizations.

•We also manage a real estate secondaries strategy, Brookfield Real Estate Secondaries, with a focus on providing liquidity solutions for other real estate general partners.

Permanent Capital Vehicles and Perpetual Strategies

•We manage $17 billion of Fee-Bearing Capital in Brookfield Property Group (“BPG”) as of December 31, 2024, which we invest, on behalf of BN, directly in real estate assets. BPG owns, operates, and develops iconic properties in the world’s most dynamic markets with a global portfolio of office, retail, multifamily, logistics, hospitality, land and housing, triple net lease, manufactured housing, and student housing assets on five continents.

•We also manage capital in our perpetual private fund real estate strategy, Brookfield Premier Real Estate Partners (“BPREP”). This is a core plus strategy that invests in high-quality, stabilized real assets located primarily in the U.S. with a focus on office, retail, multifamily and logistics real estate assets. We also have two regional BPREP strategies that are dedicated specifically to investments in Australia and Europe.

•We also manage a non-traded REIT, Brookfield Real Estate Income Trust (“Brookfield REIT”), which is a semi-liquid strategy catering specifically to the private wealth channel. This product invests in high quality income-producing opportunities globally through equity or real estate-related debt.

Through the various products outlined, we have invested in multiple asset classes including:

•Office properties in key gateway cities in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Germany, Australia, Brazil and India;

•High-quality retail destinations that are central gathering places for the communities they serve, combining shopping, dining, entertainment and other activities;

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•Full-service hotels and leisure-style hospitality assets in high-barrier markets across North America, the U.K. and Australia; and

•High-quality assets with operational upside across multifamily, alternative living, life sciences and logistics sectors globally.

Private Equity

Overview

•We have one of the best long-term track records for investing in private equity with $145 billion of AUMand $45 billion of Fee-Bearing Capital as of December 31, 2024.

•We focus on high-quality businesses that provide essential products and services, diversified across business services and industrials sectors. We partner closely with management teams to enable long-term success through operational and other improvements.

•We have approximately 270 investment and asset management professionals globally that are focused on our private equity strategy, supported by approximately 142,900 operating employees in the businesses that we manage.

Our Products

Long-term Private Funds

•Our global opportunistic flagship fund series, Brookfield Capital Partners (“BCP”), is our leading private equity offering. The series of funds focuses on cash-flowing industrial and essential service businesses. We seek investments that benefit from high barriers to entry and enhance their cash flow capabilities by improving strategy and execution.

•Our special investments strategy, Brookfield Special Investments (“BSI”), is focused on structured, large-scale, non-control investments. This product capitalizes on transactions that do not fit our traditional control-oriented flagship private equity fund series. Situations may include recapitalization or strategic growth capital where we expect to generate equity-like returns while ensuring downside protection through contracted returns.

•Our thematic private equity strategy, Brookfield Financial Infrastructure Partners, focuses on investments in asset-light financial infrastructure companies that underpin the global financial system.

•Our regional private equity strategy, Brookfield Middle East Partners, is focused on opportunistically investing across sectors and countries in the Middle East by drawing on Brookfield’s global footprint and value-add as a strategic partner.

•Our venture capital strategy, Pinegrove Ventures, manages investments in the innovation economy and is uniquely positioned to access highly sought-after opportunities in high quality venture-backed companies and funds.

Permanent Capital Vehicles and Perpetual Strategies

•We manage Brookfield Business Partners L.P. (“BBU”), which is a publicly traded global business services and industrials company focused on owning and operating high-quality providers of essential products and services. BBU is listed on the NYSE and TSX and had a market capitalization of $5.2 billion as atDecember 31, 2024.

Our private equity vehicles acquire high-quality operations globally. The broad investment mandate provides us with the flexibility to invest on behalf of our clients across multiple industries through many forms. Through the various products outlined above, we have invested on behalf of our clients in:

•Leading service providers to large-scale infrastructure assets, including a leading provider of work access services, modular building leasing services, and a leading global provider of lottery services and technology solutions;

•Operationally intense industrial businesses that benefit from a strong competitive position, including a leading global provider of advanced automotive battery technology, a leading global aviation services and leasing business, and a leading manufacturer of engineered components for industrial trailers and other towable equipment providers, among others; and

•Essential services providers, including the largest private sector residential mortgage insurer in Canada, a leading value-add distributor of telecom equipment, a leading provider of software and technology services to automotive dealers, and one of the largest private school operators globally.

Credit

Overview

•We are one of the world’s largest and most experienced credit managers globally, with $317 billion of AUMand $245 billion of Fee-Bearing Capital as of December 31, 2024.

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•We seek to provide flexible, specialized capital solutions to borrowers and deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns to our clients across a range of debt strategies, focusing on private credit and direct lending in areas in which we possess differentiated investment and operational capabilities.

•We have approximately 230 investment and asset management professionals globally that are focused on our credit strategies, investing across a broad spectrum of investments, leveraging the capabilities we have organically built in collaboration with the capabilities of leading credit managers with whom we partner.

Our Products

•Our flagship opportunistic credit strategy, Global Opportunities, seeks to generate current income and long-term capital appreciation by investing in private loans to large private-equity-owned companies with a focus on protecting against losses by buying claims on assets at discounted prices. We aim to achieve substantial gains by actively participating in restructurings to restore companies to financial viability and creating value at every stage of the investment process.

•Brookfield Infrastructure Debt is our infrastructure debt fund series, which invests on behalf of our clients in mezzanine debt investments in high-quality, infrastructure assets.

•Brookfield Real Estate Finance Fund is our commercial real estate debt fund series, which targets investments in transactions that are senior to traditional equity and subordinate to first mortgages or investment-grade corporate debt.

•In addition to several other credit strategies, we also provide tailored separately managed accounts for our clients, with private credit investment programs designed for each of our clients’ specific risk, return, and prudential requirements. Each client’s private credit investment portfolio can be customized across multiple dimensions, including asset class, credit quality, duration, sector, and geography, with proprietary access to our broad-based private credit origination capabilities.

The credit investments that we manage enable our clients to have exposure to a broad range of credit strategies, including:

•Private Credit strategies focusing on underwriting and managing directly sourced credit investments on behalf of our clients, across various sectors, including infrastructure, renewable energy, real estate, corporate credit, royalties, aviation, equipment finance, as well as consumer and SME credit;

•Opportunistic Credit strategies that are designed to capitalize on market dislocations and inefficiencies to generate high returns. These strategies typically involve investing in distressed or special situations where credit is undervalued or overlooked by traditional investors;

•Structured Credit strategies investing across structured and asset-backed finance opportunities in real estate, fund finance, aviation, consumer and corporate credit and more; and

•Liquid Credit strategies investing across a broad spectrum of public debt securities, from investment-grade to high-yield.

Development of the Business

Our asset management business is owned and operated through the Asset Management Company, which, as of February 4, 2025, is wholly-owned by BAM.

BAM is headquartered in New York, NY and was incorporated on July 4, 2022. BAM and the Asset Management Company were formed by BN to facilitate the 2022 Arrangement. The 2022 Arrangement, which closed on December 9, 2022, involved the division of Brookfield Asset Management Inc. into two publicly traded companies: BAM, a pure-play, leading global alternative asset management business; and BN, a leading global investment firm focused on building long-term wealth for institutions and individuals around the world.

As at December 31, 2024, BAM owned approximately 27% of the Asset Management Company. On February 4, 2025, BAM completed a corporate restructuring with BN by way of a court-approved plan of arrangement (the “2025 Plan of Arrangement”), which was originally announced on October 31, 2024, whereby BN transferred its approximate 73% interest in the Asset Management Company to BAM in exchange for newly issued Class A Shares of BAM, on a one-for-one basis (the “2025 Arrangement”). After giving effect to the 2025 Arrangement, BAM owns 100% of the Asset Management Company, and BN owns approximately 73% of the Class A Shares. The 2025 Arrangement is expected to continue to broaden BAM’s shareholder base and simplify the structure of the Asset Management Company further by having its ownership consolidated under BAM, rather than being split between BN and BAM. The 2025 Arrangement also resulted in BAM’s market capitalization reflecting 100% of the value of the asset management business, which management believes will align BAM’s size and structure with its U.S.-based global alternative asset management business peers and position BAM for potential inclusion in some of the most widely followed global large cap stock indices, including in the U.S., in the future. As part of these efforts, a number of changes were made to BAM's board of directors. Please see “Part III—Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance—Directors and Executive Officers” on page 198 of this report.

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The following is a summary of other recent developments affecting BAM and our asset management business since January 1, 2024.

Asset Management Business

2025 Activity

On February 10, 2025, BAM announced a €20 billion infrastructure investment program to support the deployment of artificial intelligence infrastructure in France. Brookfield's investment will be targeted across data centers and associated infrastructure sectors which are vital for the deployment of artificial intelligence. Up to €15 billion of data center investment will be led by a Brookfield portfolio company, Data4, one of Europe’s largest data center developers, headquartered in Paris. The investment of a further €5 billion is planned by Brookfield in France across associated artificial intelligence infrastructure such as data transfer, chip storage and energy generation. The total €20 billion investment is projected to be delivered by 2030.

On February 11, 2025, Oaktree announced the final close of Oaktree Opportunities Fund XII (“Opps XII”), with approximately $16 billion of commitments, including co-investment and affiliated vehicles. As of February 11, the Fund has more than $7 billion invested or committed for investment in businesses that are diversified across geographies, sectors, and asset classes.

On March 11, 2025, BAM announced the closing of its inaugural Brookfield Infrastructure Structured Solutions Fund (“BISS”), a middle-market infrastructure fund, achieving its fundraising target with over $1 billion of capital commitments. BISS is focused on deploying Brookfield’s capabilities as an owner and operator of global infrastructure assets to partner with sponsors, developers, and corporates in the mid-market. The strategy seeks to invest both structured and common equity.

2024 Activity

In 2024, our asset management business benefited from strong fundraising across our flagship and complementary fund offerings, with total fundraising of over $135 billion. The successful fundraising across our flagship series included the second vintage of our global transition fund of $4.6 billion, our fifth real estate flagship fund of $2.9 billion, and the twelfth vintage of our opportunistic credit fund of $5.2 billion. We expect to hold a final close for our second global transition flagship fund and fifth real estate flagship fund series in the first half of 2025.

We also raised approximately $103 billion of capital this year across more than a dozen credit strategies and under our mandate with BWS. This includes raising nearly $29 billion across our Oaktree franchise, including our aforementioned twelfth opportunities credit fund, $1.7 billion in the fourth vintage of our infrastructure debt fund, and $2.5 billion across our other partner managers. In addition, we raised a total of $67 billion from BWS including a $49 billion mandate following the May 2, 2024 acquisition of AEL and $17 billion from retail annuity sales, pension risk transfer inflows, and other reinsurance products.

Our Fee-Bearing Capital represents the total capital managed by our asset management business for which we earn fee revenue. Fee-Bearing Capital of our asset management business increased by $82 billion, or18% to $539 billion in 2024; of this, 87% is long-dated or perpetual in nature, providing resiliency and predictability to our revenues. Increases to Fee-Bearing Capital of $129 billion were largely attributable to fundraising during the year and the aforementioned AEL Mandate. These increases were partially offset by redemptions within our liquid and perpetual strategies and annuity-related outflows.

The increase in Fee-Bearing Capital contributed to Fee Revenues of $4.7 billion and Fee-Related Earnings of $2.5 billion for 2024, which increased by7% and 10%, respectively, compared to 2023. The increase in Fee-Related Earnings was partially offset by higher cash taxes resulting in DE of $2.4 billion for 2024, or an increase of 5% compared to 2023.

During the year, our asset management business deployed $47.6 billion across the business groups, including $5.6 billion from renewable power and transition, $3.8 billion from infrastructure, $5.9 billion from private equity, $6.1 billion from real estate and $26.2 billion from credit.

As at December 31, 2024, the asset management business had total uncalled private fund commitments of $115 billion of which approximately $53 billion is committed across the business groups and is currently not earning fees, but will become fee-bearing once the capital is invested. Once invested, we expect these commitments will earn approximately $530 million of additional Fee Revenues.

Digitalization is being further propelled by significant increases in AI investment, increasing corporate clean energy demand, and the transformative role of private credit in the capital markets. In 2024, our investment strategies continued to focus on growing fundraising channels, direct credit lending, infrastructure, and transition and renewables. Some notable examples include:

•In February 2024, BAM announced that it raised $10 billion (inclusive of fund commitments and strategic capital from the investor base of our asset management business) in the first closing of the second vintage of Brookfield Global Transition Fund, our private fund dedicated to facilitating the global transition to a net-zero carbon economy. Total fundraising for the strategy this year was $5.2 billion.

•On May 2, 2024, BWS completed the acquisition of the remaining outstanding common stock of AEL that it did not already own. The acquisition by BWS from BN of the BAM Class A Shares required to satisfy the stock consideration pursuant to the

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AEL acquisition resulted in an increase to BAM's ownership in the Asset Management Company (after giving effect to the 2025 Arrangement, the non-controlling interest in BAM) from approximately 25% to approximately 27%. The AEL acquisition also resulted in the raising of $49 billion of fee-bearing capital to be managed by the asset management business.

•On September 17, 2024, we acquired a 51% stake in Castlelake’s fee-related earnings, a 7.5% stake in Castlelake's carried interest, 20% of returns from GP commitments, and 51% of GP commitments for in-market and future Castlelake funds for total cash consideration of approximately $489 million. In addition, BWS committed to invest approximately $1 billion in Castlelake's investment strategies and funds.

•We launched our Catalytic Transition Fund with an initial close on September 23, 2024, of which $2.4 billion was raised in the year. This new capital is inclusive of the $1 billion anchor investment from ALTÉRRA, the world’s largest private climate investment fund.

•On September 26, 2024, we completed our acquisition of Pinegrove Ventures (previously “SVB Capital”), the investment platform business of SVB Financial Group through Pinegrove Venture Partners (“Pinegrove”). Pinegrove is our venture investment platform formed and owned in partnership with Sequoia Heritage, focused on providing secondary solutions within the growth and technology sector. Pinegrove manages approximately $10 billion in assets.

Corporate

2025 Activity – to date

On January 9, 2025, BAM announced stock exchange approval of a share repurchase program to purchase up to 37.1 million Class A Shares, representing at the time approximately 10% of the public float of Class A Shares, through open market purchases on the NYSE and TSX. Under the share repurchase program, which commenced on January 13, 2025 and is set to expire on January 12, 2026, BAM has, as of March 7, 2025, purchased 1,110,543 Class A Shares at an average price of $53.27.

On January 16, 2025, BAM announced the appointment of Bruce Flatt as Chair of the Board of BAM. He replaced Mark Carney, who on the same day announced his candidacy for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada. Concurrent with the launch of Mr. Carney's campaign, Brookfield accepted his resignation from BAM.

On February 12, 2025, BAM declared a quarterly dividend of $0.4375 per share, representing a 15% increase relative to the prior year, payable on March 31, 2025, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on February 28, 2025.

2024 Activity

On January 9, 2024, BAM announced stock exchange approval of a share repurchase program to purchase up to 34.6 million Class A Shares, representing at the time approximately 10% of the public float of Class A Shares, through open market purchases on the NYSE and TSX. Under the share purchase program, which commenced on January 11, 2024 and expired on January 10, 2025, BAM did not purchase any Class A Shares.

On February 7, 2024, BAM declared a quarterly dividend of $0.38 per share, representing a 19% increase relative to the prior year, payable on March 28, 2024, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on February 29, 2024.

On March 19, 2024, BAM announced the appointment of Hadley Peer Marshall as Chief Financial Officer of BAM, effective May 31, 2024.

On October 31, 2024, BAM announced that it changed its head office to New York, NY.

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Organizational Structure

The following simplified diagram illustrates our organizational structure as at March 7, 2025.

Employees

We have a team of over 2,500 investment and asset management professionals that are integral to the business, including individuals focused on our core investment strategies and those undertaking various corporate activities. Approximately 270 of these are employed by BAM and the remainder are employed by the Asset Management Company and their subsidiaries. In 2024, BAM provided the services of our employees to the Asset Management Company on a cost recovery basis under the Asset Management Services Agreement. Our long-term approach to our business influences everything we do, including how we make investment decisions, how we support and oversee our businesses, and how we develop our people and compensate them. Our employee compensation programs link a significant portion of employee rewards to successful investment outcomes. Our emphasis on fostering collaboration enables us to benefit from a diverse set of skills and experiences. Our talent management processes and our approach to long-term compensation encourage collaboration. This shows itself in a number of ways, including in the sharing of expertise and best practices through both formal and informal channels and building relationships and capabilities through employee secondments and transfers.

We have a group of dedicated operations professionals in all our key regions that have extensive experience leading businesses. We take an active role in enhancing the performance of the assets and businesses we acquire. As a result, our operations team is fully integrated – meaning our operations professionals sit alongside our experienced investment team working hand in hand from diligence to the execution of our business plan and through the monetization phase of an investment. The team works closely with the senior management teams of the companies in which we invest to develop and implement business improvements that enable us to increase cash flow and our return on capital. While enhancement opportunities may differ across assets and businesses, they generally involve a combination of strategic repositioning, focus on operational excellence and enhanced commercial execution.

We recognize that people drive our success, and therefore hiring, developing and retaining our people is one of our top priorities. We do this by ensuring our people are constantly engaged and provide a wide range of development opportunities across all levels. We aim to create an environment that is built on strong relationships and conducive to developing our workforce, and where individuals from diverse backgrounds can thrive.

Globally, we are supported by approximately 250,000 full-time operating employees (up 2% from approximately 240,000 in 2023). We also periodically hire contractors as needed to support the growth of our business. The chart below sets out our full-time operating employees by region as at December 31, 2024.

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Other full time operating employees represents over 70 countries and no country makes up greater than 3% of the total balance.

Competition

BAM competes with many other firms in every aspect of our business, including raising funds, investments opportunities and hiring and retaining professionals. In our view, competition for fund investors is based primarily on investment performance, willingness to invest, investor perception of the investment manager, the investment manager's reputation, duration of relationships, quality of services, pricing, fund terms including fees, and the relative attractiveness of our present or future investments. We believe that competition for investment opportunities is based primarily on the pricing, terms and structure (including financing conditions) of a proposed investment and certainty of execution.

Strong investment performance enhances our ability to compete for investors. Our investors and potential investors continually assess investment performance and our ability to raise capital for existing and future funds depends on our funds’ relative and absolute performance. If our investment returns or changes in investment mandates prevent us from raising further capital from our existing partners, we may need to identify and attract new investors in order to maintain or increase the size of our private funds. Further, as competition and disintermediation in the asset management industry increase, there may be pressure to reduce or modify our asset management fees, including base management fees and/or carried interest, or modify other terms governing our current asset management fee structure, in order to attract and retain investors.

There are other funds focused on renewable power and transition, infrastructure, private equity, real estate, and credit strategies that compete for investor capital. Fund managers have also increasingly adopted investment strategies outside of their traditional focus. Furthermore, as institutional fund investors increasingly consolidate their relationships for multiple investment products with a few investment firms, competition for capital from such institutional fund investors may become more acute. Such consolidation may lead institutional fund investors to prefer more established investment firms, which could help us to compete against newer entrants or investment firms that are smaller in size or offer more limited types of investment strategies.

Competition is also intense for the attraction and retention of qualified personnel. Our ability to continue to compete effectively in our businesses will depend upon our ability to attract new asset management and investment professionals and other employees and retain and motivate our existing personnel.

For additional information regarding the competitive risks that we face, please see “Part I—Item 1A. Risk Factors”.

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Risk Management

Our Approach

Managing risk is an integral and critical part of our business. We have a well-established, proactive and disciplined risk management approach that is based on clear operating methods and a strong risk management culture. We ensure that we have the necessary capacity and resilience to respond to changing environments by evaluating both current and emerging risks. We adhere to a robust risk management framework and methodology that is designed to enable comprehensive and consistent management of risk across the organization. We use a thorough and integrated risk assessment process to identify and evaluate risk areas across the business, including human capital, climate change, cybersecurity, liquidity, disruption, regulatory compliance and other strategic, financial, and operational risks. Management and mitigation approaches are tailored to the specific risk areas and executed by business and functional groups for their businesses and areas of responsibility, with appropriate coordination and oversight through monitoring and reporting processes.

Focus on Risk Culture

A strong risk culture is the cornerstone of our risk management program: one that promotes measured and appropriate risk-taking, addresses current and emerging risks, and ensures employees conduct business with a long-term perspective and in a sustainable and ethical manner. This culture is reinforced by the strong commitment and leadership of our senior executives and supported by the policies and practices we have implemented, including our compensation approach.

Shared Execution

Given the diversified and decentralized nature of our operations, we seek to ensure that risk is managed as close to its source as possible and by management teams that have the most knowledge and expertise in the specific business or risk area. As such, business specific risks—such as health and safety, environmental and other operational risks—are generally managed at the operating business level, as the risks vary based on the nature of each business. At the same time, we monitor key risks organization-wide to ensure adequacy of risk management, adherence to applicable Brookfield policies, and sharing of best practices.

For risks that are more pervasive and correlated in their impact across the organization—such as liquidity, foreign exchange and interest rates or where we can bring specialized knowledge—we utilize a coordinated approach that is centralized amongst our corporate and business groups. Management of strategic, reputational and regulatory and compliance risks are similarly coordinated to ensure consistent focus and implementation across the organization.

Oversight and Coordination

We have implemented strong governance practices to monitor and oversee our risk management program. Management committees bring together required expertise to manage key risk areas, ensuring appropriate application and coordination of risk management practices across our business and functional groups, and include the following:

•Risk Management Steering Committee: supports the overall corporate risk management program, and coordinates risk assessment and mitigation on an enterprise-wide basis.

•Investment Committees: oversee the investment process and review and approve investment transactions.

•Conflicts Committee: resolves potential conflict situations in the investment process and other corporate transactions.

•Financial Risk Oversight Committee: reviews and monitors financial exposures.

•Sustainability Leadership: oversees, coordinates and implements activities related to sustainability, including current and future initiatives, and sector and market trends.

•Safety Leadership Committee: promotes a strong safety culture, monitors safety trends, and sponsors strategic initiatives related to health, safety, security and environmental matters.

•Net Zero Steering Committee: develops decarbonization targets, operationalizes decarbonization approaches and shares best practices across the organization.

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•Disclosure Committee: oversees the public disclosure of material information.

Regulatory Matters

Our business, including our investment advisory and broker-dealer business, is subject to substantial and increasing regulatory compliance obligations and oversight, and this higher level of scrutiny gives rise to certain risks.

See “Part I—Item 1A. Risk Factors—Risks Relating to our Business—We are subject to numerous laws, rules and regulatory requirements which may impact our business, including resulting in financial penalties, loss of business and/or damage to our reputation in instances of non-compliance”.

Sustainability

Sustainability at Brookfield

We believe that value creation and sustainable business practices are complementary goals. We draw on our 100+ year heritage as an owner and operator to invest for value and seek to generate strong returns for our clients across economic cycles. Our investment strategy has remained unchanged throughout our firm’s history – we focus on utilizing our operational expertise to enhance long-term value through strategic and operational improvements within our operating businesses and portfolio companies. Our primary objective is to deliver strong risk-adjusted returns without compromise to our fiduciary duty.

Our Sustainability Policy outlines our approach and is based on the following guiding principles:

Mitigate the impact of our operations on the environment

•Strive to minimize the environmental impact of operations and improve efficient use of resources over time.

•Support the ambition of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions by 2050 or sooner.

Strive to ensure the well-being and safety of employees

•Foster a positive work environment based on respect for human rights, valuing diversity and having zero tolerance for workplace discrimination, violence or harassment.

•Operate with leading health and safety practices to support the goal of achieving zero serious safety incidents.

Uphold strong governance practices

•Operate to the highest ethical standards by conducting business activities in accordance with our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.

•Maintain strong stakeholder relationships through transparency and active engagement.

Be good corporate citizens

•Strive to ensure the interests, safety and well-being of the communities in which we operate are integrated into our business decisions.

•Support philanthropy and volunteerism by our employees.

Our global sustainability policy codifies our longstanding strategy of integrating sustainability considerations into our decision-making. This policy is reviewed at least annually and, where applicable, updated periodically by our senior executives, as well as each of our business groups.

Sustainability Affiliations and Partnerships

Through our engagement with sustainability frameworks and organizations, we continue to evolve our sustainability reporting and protocols to align with leading practices. The following are some of the frameworks and organizations with which we are affiliated:

•Principles for Responsible Investment (“PRI”) – We have been signatories to the PRI since 2020 and complete the PRI assessment annually, which reinforces our longstanding commitment to responsible investment and sustainability best practices.

•International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) Sustainability Alliance – We are members of the IFRS Sustainability Alliance, a global program established to develop globally accepted accounting and sustainability disclosures.

We review all of our memberships with external organizations periodically or in the event of material changes in their strategy or

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operations to determine if they continue to be aligned with our objectives.

Sustainability Organization and Governance

Upholding robust sustainability programs throughout our firm, business groups, and encouraging our portfolio companies to do the same, remains an important priority. We understand that good governance is essential to sustainable business operations. The oversight of sustainability is integrated into our overall governance framework and is aligned with our governance approach. We are committed to upholding strong practices to monitor and oversee our business, including our overall approach to sustainability.

Our Board is focused on maintaining strong corporate governance and prioritizing the interests of our shareholders. The Board oversees our business, including reviewing major strategic initiatives and receiving progress reports on the firm’s sustainability initiatives throughout the year.

Our approach to sustainability has sponsorship and oversight from each business group’s CEO and sustainability leads, supported by senior executives, including the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Brookfield (Governance, Operations and Risk Management) and BAM’s CEO of Renewable Power and Transition (Decarbonization and Investment), working in collaboration with BAM’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) (GHG Reporting and Measurement). Since sustainability covers a significant range of priorities that are varied in scope, we believe that sustainability initiatives should be overseen by individuals closest to the particular business activity. Functional leads are responsible for developing, implementing and monitoring relevant sustainability factors within their functional area, such as Technology Services and Human Resources.

Management teams and committees, including the Decarbonization Steering Committee and Safety Leadership Committee, bring together expertise to address key sustainability areas. This focuses on proper application and coordination of approaches across our business and functional groups. We organize working groups dedicated to specialized areas, such as the Sustainability Working Group and Decarbonization Operational Committee, to develop and coordinate initiatives to advance our overall sustainability efforts.

Integrating Sustainability into Our Investment Process

As part of our due diligence over investments where we have control or significant influence, we seek to assess sustainability-related opportunities and risks and factor them into the overall investment decision. This includes leveraging industry guidance to identify sustainability factors most likely to materially impact the financial condition or operating performance of companies in a sector. As part of our Sustainability Due Diligence Protocol, we provide specific guidance to investment teams on assessing bribery and corruption, cybersecurity, health and safety, human rights, modern slavery and climate-related risks. Where warranted, we perform deeper due diligence, working with internal and third-party experts as appropriate.

Investments, other than de-minimis or follow on investments, must be approved by the applicable Investment Committee. Investment teams present the Investment Committee with the merits of the transaction, its material risks, mitigants and significant opportunities for improvement, including sustainability aspects and their implications for investment returns.

As part of each acquisition, investment teams develop a customized integration plan that encompasses, among other items, significant sustainability-related matters for evaluation or implementation. We believe there is a strong correlation between managing these considerations appropriately and enhancing investment returns.

Consistent with our management approach, it is the responsibility of management teams within each portfolio company to manage sustainability opportunities and risks through the investment’s life cycle, supported by our applicable investment teams. The combination of local accountability and expertise along with our investment and operating experience and insight is important when managing a wide range of asset types across jurisdictions. We leverage these capabilities in collaborating on sustainability initiatives, where appropriate, to drive returns. Where appropriate, we encourage our portfolio companies to organize training on a variety of sustainability matters for relevant staff.

Management teams regularly report to their respective boards of directors from both financial and operating perspectives, including key performance indicators that incorporate material sustainability factors, such as health and safety, compliance with regulatory requirements, environmental management, and, increasingly, GHG emissions.

For investments where we do not have a controlling interest, for example, where we are a debt investor or in other circumstances where we do not have the ability to exercise influence through our contractual rights, we actively monitor the performance of our investments and, where appropriate, utilize our stewardship and engagement practices to encourage sustainability outcomes that are aligned with our sustainability approach.

When preparing an asset for divestiture, we seek to outline potential value creation deriving from several different factors, including relevant sustainability considerations. Where applicable, we also prepare both qualitative and quantitative data that summarize the sustainability performance of the investment and provide a holistic understanding of how we managed the investment during the holding period.

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Stewardship and Engagement

In managing our assets, we leverage our significant influence and operating capabilities to collaborate with our portfolio companies. We encourage sound sustainability practices that are essential for building resilient and profitable businesses, aiming to create long-term value for our investors and stakeholders. Due to the operational nature of our value creation methods, we focus on investing in private markets where we can often acquire controlling interests, or positions of significant influence, in order to deploy our operations-oriented investment strategies.

As a result, proxy voting does not represent a significant portion of our investment activities. The majority of our proxy voting occurs within Brookfield’s Public Securities Group, which represents a very small portion of our overall business (approximately 1% of our AUM as of December 31, 2024).

The following is a summary of some of the sustainability initiatives that we undertook in 2024.

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Emissions Reduction Initiatives

As the world is transitioning to a lower-carbon economy, we view emissions reduction as a material value-creation opportunity. In 2021, we set an ambition to reach net zero by 2050 or sooner across operationally managed investments. Our net-zero ambition targets assets and investments where we can directly influence outcomes—termed “Operationally Managed Investments”—or those already pursuing a transition strategy for economic benefit.

In selecting which of these assets are capable of making meaningful progress toward decarbonization targets, we prioritize Operationally Managed Investments where:

•We consider such decarbonization steps will add value over the life of the investment;

•We can operationally manage the outcomes; and

•We are able to identify and implement actionable initiatives in the near term.

Driving efficiency and, consequently, value is a cornerstone of our operations-oriented approach to investing. Therefore, we would expect the quantity and timing of GHG emissions reductions of our portfolio companies over time to be slightly ahead of industry and regional averages. While we view decarbonization as a meaningful operational efficiency lever, we acknowledge that transitioning to a net zero future is an ambition that is subject to many unknowns and uncertainties, including the future availability of required technologies, such as the need for greater battery storage capacity to support the introduction of greater intermittent renewable energy within electricity grids. Despite these challenges, we work with our portfolio companies to identify operational value-enhancement and decarbonization opportunities, including areas such as energy efficiency and electrification measures, amongst others, where our operations teams can work closely with senior management of our portfolio companies to support the implementation of these value-enhancing improvements. In doing so, we are supporting our portfolio companies in maximizing their value, while also achieving their decarbonization potential. This contributes to a future lower emissions economy, while delivering strong risk-adjusted returns for our investors.

We eschew firm-wide policies purporting to exclude industries or sectors for investment across the energy landscape, including in respect of fossil-fuel-based generation, transportation, and distribution. Nor do we believe in divestment of high-emitting industries. We believe that there is significant value in supporting decarbonization initiatives of the highest-emitting industries where we can deliver the greatest level of impact.

Leveraging our leading capabilities in development and operation of renewable power over the last 30 years, we launched our inaugural Brookfield Global Transition Fund (“BGTF I”), raising $15 billion of capital in 2022. This transition strategy focuses on building renewable power, providing capital to other decarbonization solutions, and targeting high-emission sectors to help businesses transition to sustainable business models and drive long-term value. Following BGTF I’s success, we launched BGTF II in 2023, which is expected to surpass the scale of its predecessor.

Our investments in BGTF I and II aim to deliver strong risk-adjusted financial returns and meaningful decarbonization impacts. These funds seek to invest in clean energy expansion, sustainable solutions (i.e., carbon capture and storage, waste recycling,) and transforming companies in carbon-intensive sectors to more sustainable and value accretive business models.

Beyond our global transition fund strategy, we do not limit our investments to those that meet specific sustainability criteria or standards. Through the expertise developed within our global transition strategy, we can offer resources and tools to help companies better identify operational value-enhancement and decarbonization opportunities. Across all investments, we invest capital on behalf of our clients with the primary objective of delivering strong risk-adjusted returns.

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Water, Waste and Biodiversity

Reducing the impact of our overall water consumption and waste generation helps build efficient systems, resiliency in our businesses and contributes to a sustainable future. We seek to utilize leading practices to efficiently monitor water usage and for certain portfolio companies, manage performance, with the objective to seek opportunities for water consumption reduction. In addition, we seek to adhere to all applicable local and regional waste regulations and track waste and recycling metrics. Encouraging the conservation of nature and its associated living organisms and ecosystem services is an important component in achieving our decarbonization goals and managing physical risks related to climate change.

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Culture Matters: Human Capital Development

Our people are our most important asset. The core values of collaboration, entrepreneurship and discipline underpin our firmwide culture. We invest in our people and prepare them for future leadership. Our firmwide culture, from our dealings with clients to the interactions among employees and executives, is defined by mutual respect, teamwork and passion, and revolves around our core values:

•Collaboration: Leadership works side by side with colleagues throughout the organization and is committed to achieving shared success. One of the key attributes that we screen carefully for in new hires is their aptitude to collaborate with others. The firm wants people to share information across groups and take an interest in all the businesses, not just the one they happen to work for at any particular point in time. We do not hire people just for a specific job; we hire for the potential of all the future positions they might hold and that will contribute to the broader success of the firm. We actively look for people who want to learn, grow, and develop—and demonstrate a willingness to be stretched outside their comfort zone.

•Entrepreneurship: Our flat organization is results-oriented—responsibility is earned based on initiative and hard work, rather than job title—and decisions are made close to the action. This principle is not uncommon, but we have encouraged our entrepreneurial spirit throughout our growth during the past 20 years. We look for employees who have a passion not only for what they do but also for what the firm does. The shared values of ownership extend beyond helping the company succeed or generate more revenue. It means caring about the little things as well, such as not wasting money and treating everyone with respect.

•Discipline: Our team shares an awareness of, and commitment to, our goal of generating superior long-term returns for investors. Discipline also requires that each person is expected to have a realistic understanding of his or her own abilities. We expect employees to understand their strengths, recognize their weaknesses, be willing to stretch outside their comfort zones, and be willing to ask for help when necessary.

The three attributes—collaboration, entrepreneurship, and discipline—form the foundation of Brookfield and have been critical to the success of the partnership in building relationships that are long-lasting and mutually rewarding. By hiring talented people and giving them opportunities to move into different businesses, we have been able to build our expertise into a broad ecosystem that facilitates collaboration across different areas and geographies as needed. The teams draw on sound data and expertise to identify emergent themes—informing their investment process and enabling us to draw upon actionable intelligence for the benefit of its investors.

Employee Composition

The composition and makeup of our employee base is indicative of our focus that, as we grow, our people reflect the communities in which we operate. We recognize that a workforce encompassing a variety of backgrounds is critical to our success. A diverse workforce not only reinforces our core principles of long-term focus, alignment of interests, and collaboration, but also provides for a more dynamic and interesting work environment.

We are committed to a hiring process that is objective, nondiscriminatory and in compliance with all applicable legislation and good governance. It is grounded in our commitment to provide equal employment opportunities with the objective of attracting the highest-qualified talent to our business. We proactively recruit people who align with the attributes of a Brookfield leader and have the potential to develop within our organization. Our succession process focuses on the development of early career candidates through stretch roles and exposure.

Occupational Health and Safety

Managing health and safety risk is an integral part of the management of our business. Our goal is to have zero serious safety incidents.

We have implemented a health and safety governance initiative to propagate a strong health and safety culture, encourage the sharing of best practices and support the continuous improvement of safety performance to help eliminate serious safety incidents. The initiative is overseen by the Safety Leadership Committee, which comprises senior operations executives from across our business groups and regions. Portfolio company management is responsible for ensuring that their company’s health and safety policies and systems are developed, operationalized, and reviewed regularly to address their specific risk areas. Portfolio company CEOs are

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accountable for the safety performance of their companies, and they report to their respective board of directors on this safety performance, safety incidents, and the status of improvement initiatives. Reports on overall health and safety trends and key initiatives are provided to the Board as part of the quarterly operational risk update.

Human Rights and Modern Slavery

Regarding human rights, we are committed to conducting our business in an ethical and responsible manner, including by carrying out our activities in a manner that respects fundamental human rights and supports the prevention of human rights violations within our business. We strive to embed this into our core business activities, including training, communications, contracts and due diligence processes set out in our Human Rights and Anti-Modern Slavery Policy (“Human Rights Policy”), Sustainability Due Diligence Protocol and Vendor Management Program.

Integrity, fairness and respect are hallmarks of our culture, including carrying out our activities by respecting fundamental human rights and our efforts to identify and prevent human rights violations within our business and supply chain. We are committed to policies aimed at maintaining a workplace free of discrimination, violence and harassment, and we expect our staff to act in a way which promotes a positive working environment. Our Human Rights Policy aims to codify our approach to minimizing the risk of modern slavery within our business and supply chain. We also have specific processes aimed at identifying human rights and modern slavery as part of due diligence for new investments, which include risk assessments, remedies, training and governance. Where appropriate, these processes give consideration to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights as part of our due diligence process and ongoing management.

In addition, our Human Rights Policy consolidates the relevant commitments set out in our Code of Conduct, Sustainability Policy, financial crimes policies, and Whistleblowing Policy. We have several additional policies and procedures that provide guidance on the identification of human rights and modern slavery risks and the steps to be taken to mitigate these risks.

Governance

Strong governance is essential to sustainable business operations, and we aim to conduct our business according to high ethical and legal standards.

Sustainability Regulation and Frameworks

Our governance practices are the foundation upon which we operate our business. We continuously adapt and enhance our policies to meet evolving standards and regulations across jurisdictions in which we operate.

Data Privacy and Cybersecurity

Data privacy and cybersecurity remain key sustainability focus areas for us. We undertake initiatives to further enhance our data protection and threat-intelligence capabilities, and to improve our third-party risk management processes. We review and update our cybersecurity program at least annually and conduct regular external-party assessments of our program maturity based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework. Additionally, we have continued mandatory cybersecurity education for all employees and enhanced our phishing simulations to include more advanced simulations and social engineering. For additional disclosure on our approach to data privacy and cybersecurity, see “Part I—Item 1C. Cybersecurity”, below.

Website and Available Information

Our website address is https://bam.brookfield.com. Information on our website is not incorporated by reference herein and is not a part of this report. We make available free of charge on our website or provide a link on our website to our Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K, and any amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, as soon as reasonably practicable after those reports are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC. To access these filings, go to our website, and then visit the “Regulatory Filings” section under the “Reports & Filings” tab. These reports and the other documents we file with the SEC are available at a website maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov. You can also access them on the CSA website at www.sedarplus.ca.

From time to time, we may use our website as a channel of distribution of material information. Financial and other material information regarding our company is routinely posted on and accessible at https://bam.brookfield.com. In addition, you may automatically receive e-mail alerts and other information about our company by enrolling your e-mail address by visiting the “Email Alerts” section of our website under the “Contacts & Alerts” tab.

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ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS

You should carefully consider the following factors in addition to other information set forth in this Annual Report. If any of the following risks were actually to occur, our business, financial condition and results of operations and the prospects and value of the Class A Shares would likely suffer.

Risks Relating to Our Business

The trading price of the Class A Shares is subject to volatility due to market conditions and other factors and cannot be predicted.

The market price of our Class A Shares may be volatile and could fluctuate significantly in response to factors both related and unrelated to our operating performance and/or future prospects, including, but not limited to: (i) variations in our operating results and financial condition; (ii) actual or prospective changes in government laws, rules or regulations affecting our business and our managed assets; (iii) material announcements by us, our affiliates or our competitors; (iv) the general state of the securities markets; (v) market conditions and events specific to the industries in which we and our managed assets operate; (vi) changes and developments in general economic, political, or social conditions, including as a result of pandemics/epidemics and related economic disruptions; (vii) changes in the values of our investments and distributions or changes in the amount of interest paid in respect of investments; (viii) differences between our actual financial results and those expected by investors and analysts; (ix) changes in analysts’ recommendations or earnings projections; (x) the depth and liquidity of the market for the Class A Shares; (xi) dilution from the issuance of additional equity; (xii) investor perception of our business, our managed assets and the sectors in which we deploy the funds from our strategies; (xiii) investment restrictions; (xiv) our dividend policy; (xv) the departure of key executives; (xvi) sales of Class A Shares by senior management or significant shareholders; and (xvii) the materialization of other risks.

Deficiencies in our public company financial reporting and disclosures could adversely impact our reputation.

As we expand the size and scope of our business, there is a greater susceptibility that our financial reporting and other public disclosure documents may contain material misstatements and that the controls we maintain to attempt to ensure the complete accuracy of our public disclosures may fail to operate as intended. The occurrence of such events could adversely impact our reputation and financial condition. In addition, we disclose certain metrics that do not have standardized meaning, are based on our own methodologies and assumptions and may not properly convey the information they purport to reflect.

Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal controls over financial reporting to give our stakeholders assurance regarding the reliability of our financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in conformity with U.S. GAAP. However, the process for establishing and maintaining adequate internal controls over financial reporting has inherent limitations, including the possibility of human error. In addition, we may exclude recently acquired companies from our evaluation of internal controls.

Our internal controls over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements in our financial disclosures on a timely basis, or at all. Some of these processes may be new for certain subsidiaries in our structure, and in the case of acquisitions, may take time to be fully implemented.

Our disclosure controls and procedures are designed to provide assurance that information required to be disclosed by us in reports filed or submitted under U.S. and Canadian securities laws is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified. Our policies and procedures governing disclosures may not ensure that all material information regarding us is disclosed in a proper and timely fashion, or that we will be successful in preventing the disclosure of material information to a single person or a limited group of people before such information is generally disseminated.

As at December 31, 2024, BAM used the equity method of accounting for its interest in our asset management business, and our asset management business’ results are not consolidated into BAM's financial statements, and therefore the recording of our asset management business’ transactions into its accounts is not part of BAM’s internal control structure. BAM has provided Asset Management Company stand-alone financial statements in this report. However, as of December 31, 2024, our asset management business was not independently required to meet Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and BAM did not have the same control and certification processes with respect to the information on our asset management business that it would have if it were a wholly-owned subsidiary of BAM.

If BAM or our auditors were to conclude that our internal controls over financial reporting were not effective in respect of any reporting period, investors could lose confidence in our reported financial information and the price of our Class A Shares could decline. Our failure to achieve and maintain effective internal controls could have a materially adverse effect on our business, our ability to access capital markets and our reputation. In addition, material weaknesses in our internal controls could require significant expense and management time to remediate.

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Investors may find it difficult or impossible to effect service of process and enforce judgments against us, our directors and our executive officers.

BAM is headquartered in New York, NY, but some of its officers and directors are not residents of the United States, and a portion of the assets of BAM and said persons are located outside the United States. As a result, it may be difficult for U.S. investors to: (i) effect service of process within the United States upon BAM or those directors and officers who are not residents of the United States; or (ii) realize in the United States upon judgments of courts of the United States predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the United States federal securities laws. Investors outside of the U.S. will similarly find it difficult to enforce judgments obtained outside of the U.S.

We are subject to numerous laws, rules and regulatory requirements which may impact our business, including resulting in financial penalties, loss of business and/or damage to our reputation in instances of non-compliance.

There are many laws, governmental rules and regulations and listing exchange rules that apply to our business and our managed assets. Changes in these laws, rules and regulations, or their interpretation by governmental agencies or the courts, could adversely affect our business, our managed assets, or our prospects, or those of our affiliates, customers, clients or partners. The failure of BAM, our asset management business or the entities that we manage to comply with these laws, rules and regulations, or with the rules and registration requirements of the respective stock exchanges on which we and they are listed, could adversely affect our reputation and financial condition.

Our business, including our investment advisory and broker-dealer business, is subject to substantial and increasing regulatory compliance obligations and oversight, and this higher level of scrutiny may lead to more regulatory enforcement actions. There continues to be uncertainty regarding the appropriate level of regulation and oversight of asset management businesses in a number of jurisdictions in which we operate. The financial services industry has been the subject of heightened scrutiny and enforcement actions. Regulatory investigations and/or enforcement actions by our regulators could have a material adverse effect on our business and/or reputation. In addition, the introduction of new legislation and increased regulations may result in increased compliance costs and could materially affect the manner in which we conduct our business and adversely affect our profitability. Although there may be some areas where governments in certain jurisdictions propose deregulation, it is difficult to predict the timing and impact of any such deregulation, and we may not materially benefit from any such changes.

Our business is not only regulated in the U.S., but also in other jurisdictions where we conduct operations including, but not limited to, the E.U., the U.K., Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Australia, India and South Korea. Similar to the environment in the U.S., our business and how we market in jurisdictions outside the U.S. has become subject to further regulation. Governmental agencies around the world have proposed or implemented a number of initiatives and additional rules and regulations that could adversely affect our business and our managed assets, and governmental agencies may propose or implement further rules and regulations in the future. These rules and regulations may impact how we market in these jurisdictions and introduce compliance obligations with respect to disclosure and transparency, as well as restrictions on investor participation and distributions. Such regulations may also prescribe certain capital requirements on our managed assets, and conditions on the leverage our managed assets may employ and the liquidity these managed assets must have. Compliance with additional regulatory requirements will impose additional restrictions and expenses for us and could reduce our operating flexibility and fundraising opportunities.

The broker-dealer side of our managed assets is regulated by the SEC, the various Canadian provincial securities commissions, as well as self-regulatory organizations, including the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority in the U.S. These regulatory bodies may conduct administrative or enforcement proceedings that can result in censure, fine, suspension or expulsion of a broker-dealer, its directors, officers or employees. Such proceedings, whether or not resulting in adverse findings, can require substantial expenditures and can have an adverse impact on the reputation of a broker-dealer.

The advisors of certain of our managed assets are registered as investment advisers with the SEC. Registered investment advisers are subject to the requirements and regulations of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, which grants U.S. supervisory agencies broad administrative powers, including the power to limit or restrict the carrying on of business for failure to comply with laws or regulations. If such powers are exercised, the possible sanctions that may be imposed include the suspension of individual employees, limitations on the activities in which the investment adviser may engage, suspension or revocation of the investment adviser’s registration, censure and fines. Compliance with these requirements and regulations results in the expenditure of resources, and a failure to comply could result in investigations, financial or other sanctions, and reputational damage.

The Investment Company Act and the rules promulgated thereunder provide certain protections to investors and impose certain restrictions on entities that are deemed “investment companies” under the Investment Company Act. We are not currently, nor do we intend to become, an investment company under the Investment Company Act. To ensure that we are not deemed to be an investment company, we may be required to materially restrict or limit the scope of our operations or plans and the types of acquisitions that we may make, and we may need to modify our organizational structure or dispose of assets that we would not otherwise dispose of. If we were required to register as an investment company, we would face severe limitations on the operation of our business. Among other things, we would be prohibited from engaging in certain business activities (or have conditions placed on our business activities), face

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restrictions on engaging in transactions with affiliated entities and issuing certain securities or engaging in certain types of financings, be restricted with respect to the amount and types of borrowings we are permitted to obtain, be required to limit the amount of investments that we make as principal, and face other limitations on our activities.

We have and may become subject to additional regulatory and compliance requirements as we expand our product offerings and investment platform which likely will carry additional legal and compliance costs, as well as additional operating requirements that may also increase costs.

Our strategies primarily invest in renewable power and transition, infrastructure, business services, real estate and industrial assets. In doing so, our managed assets are required to comply with extensive and complex municipal, state or provincial, national and international laws and regulations. These laws and regulations can result in uncertainty and delays and impose additional costs, which may adversely affect our results of operations. Changes in these laws and regulations may negatively impact us and our managed assets or may benefit our competitors and their businesses.

Additionally, liability under such laws, rules and regulations may occur without our fault. In certain cases, parties can pursue legal actions against us to enforce compliance as well as seek damages for non-compliance or for personal injury or property damage. Our insurance may not provide sufficient coverage in the event that a successful claim is made against us.

Most of our funds rely on Rule 506 of Regulation D under the U.S. Securities Act to raise capital from investors. Rule 506 is not available to issuers deemed to be “bad actors” under Rule 506 if a covered person of the issuer has been the subject to certain criminal, civil or regulatory disqualifying events. Covered persons include, among others, the issuer, executive officer or other officer participating in the offering of the issuer, any general partner or managing member of the foregoing entities, any promoter of the issuer and any beneficial owner of 20% or more of the issuer’s outstanding voting equity securities. If one or more of our funds were to lose the ability to rely on the Rule 506 exemption because a covered person has been the subject of a disqualifying event, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.

Federal, state and foreign anti-bribery and corruption and trade sanctions laws and restrictions on foreign direct investment applicable to us and our managed assets create the potential for significant liabilities and penalties, the inability to complete transactions, imposition of significant costs and burdens, and reputational harm and we may also be subject to various governmental investigations.

We are from time to time subject to various governmental investigations, audits and inquiries, both formal and informal. These investigations, regardless of their outcome, can be costly, divert management attention and damage our reputation. The unfavorable resolution of such investigations could result in criminal liability, fines, penalties or other monetary or non-monetary sanctions and could materially affect our business or results of operations.

We are subject to a number of laws and regulations governing payments and contributions to public officials or other third parties both domestically and in respect of managed assets abroad, including the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (the “FCPA”), various federal and state corruption laws,and similar laws in non-U.S. jurisdictions, such as the U.K. Bribery Act2010, the Canadian Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act(the “CFPOA”) and Part IV of the Criminal Code (Canada), the Brazilian Clean Companies Act, the Australian Criminal Code Act 1995, the Indian Prevention of Corruption Act, and the Bermudian Bribery Act 2016. This global focus on anti-bribery and corruption enforcement may also lead to more investigations, both formal and informal, in this area, the results of which cannot be predicted.

Instances of bribery, fraud, accounting irregularities and other improper, illegal or corrupt practices can be difficult to detect, in particular when conducting due diligence in connection with acquisitions, and fraud and other deceptive practices can be widespread in certain jurisdictions. We invest in emerging market countries that may not have established stringent anti-bribery and corruption laws and regulations, where existing laws and regulations may not be consistently enforced, or that are perceived to have materially higher levels of corruption according to international rating standards. Due diligence on investment opportunities in these jurisdictions is frequently more challenging because consistent and uniform commercial practices in such locations may not have developed or do not meet international standards. Bribery, fraud, accounting irregularities and corrupt practices can be especially difficult to detect in such locations. When acquiring assets in distress, the quality of financial information of the target may also make it difficult to identify irregularities.

The FCPA prohibits bribery of non-U.S. officials, candidates for office and political parties, and requires U.S. companies to keep books and records that accurately and fairly reflect those companies’ transactions. Similar laws in non-U.S. jurisdictions, such as the U.K. Bribery Act 2010 and the CFPOA, as well as other applicable anti-bribery and corruption or related laws in the U.S. and abroad, may also impose stricter or more onerous requirements than the FCPA, and implementing them may disrupt our business or cause us to incur significantly more costs to comply with those laws. The policies and procedures we have implemented to comply with anti-bribery and corruption legislation may be inadequate. If we fail to comply with such laws and regulations, we could be exposed to claims for damages, financial penalties, incarceration of our employees, reputational harm, restrictions on our operations and other liabilities, which could negatively affect our operating results and financial condition. In addition, we may be subject to successor

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liability for violations under these laws and regulations or other acts of bribery committed by entities in which we or our managed assets invest.

We are also subject to laws and regulations governing trade and economic sanctions. The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Department of State administer and enforce various trade control laws and regulations, including economic and trade sanctions based on U.S. foreign policy and national security goals against targeted foreign states, organizations and individuals. These laws and regulations implicate a number of aspects of our business, including servicing existing fund investors, finding new fund investors, and sourcing new investments, as well as activities by our managed assets or other controlled investments. Some of these regulations provide that penalties can be imposed on us for the conduct of our managed assets, even if we have not ourselves violated any regulation. Similar laws in non-U.S. jurisdictions, such as the Special Economic Measures Act (Canada), the United Nations Act (Canada) and the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act (Canada), and E.U. sanctions, may also impose restrictions or requirements on us or our managed assets. Anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, economic sanctions, and trade control laws imposed by non-U.S. jurisdictions, such as EU and UK sanctions or blocking statutes and the UK Bribery Act, may also impose stricter or more onerous requirements than the FCPA, OFAC, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Department of State or U.S. Department of Treasury, and implementing them may disrupt our business or cause us to incur significantly more costs to comply with those laws. Different laws may also contain conflicting provisions, making compliance with all laws more difficult.” In February 2022, the U.S. and other countries began imposing meaningful sanctions targeting Russia as a result of actions taken by Russia in Ukraine. We and our managed assets are required to comply with these and potentially additional sanctions imposed by the U.S. and by other countries, for which the full costs, burdens and limitations on our business and prospects are currently unknown and may become significant.

In addition, the U.S. and many non-U.S. countries that have laws designed to protect national security or to restrict foreign direct investment. For example, under the United States Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has the authority to review, block or impose conditions on investments by non-U.S. persons in U.S. companies or real assets deemed critical or sensitive to the U.S. Many non-U.S. jurisdictions have similar laws. For example, the E.U. has adopted an E.U.-wide mechanism to screen foreign investment on national security grounds and most E.U. member states now have a foreign investment screening mechanism in place or has initiated a consultative or legislative process expected to result in the adoption of a new mechanism or amendments to an existing mechanism, adopted a regulation aimed at regulation of foreign subsidies that could distort the internal E.U. market.

Under these laws, governments have the authority to impose a variety of actions, including requirements for the advance screening or notification of certain transactions, blocking or imposing conditions on certain transactions, limiting the size of foreign equity investments or control by foreign investors, and restricting the employment of foreigners as key personnel. These actions could limit our ability to find suitable investments, cause delays in consummating transactions, result in the abandonment of transactions, and impose burdensome operational requirements on us or our managed assets. These laws could also negatively impact our fundraising and syndication activities by causing us to exclude or limit certain investors in our funds or co-investors for our transactions. Moreover, these laws may make it difficult for us to identify suitable buyers for our investments that we want to exit and could constrain the universe of exit opportunities generally. Complying with these laws imposes potentially significant costs and complex additional burdens, and any failure by us or our managed assets to comply with them could expose us to significant penalties, sanctions, loss of future investment opportunities, additional regulatory scrutiny, and reputational harm.

Foreign exchange rate fluctuations could adversely impact our aggregate foreign currency exposure and hedging strategies may not be effective.

We have pursued and intend to continue to pursue growth opportunities in international markets, and often deploy capital in countries where the U.S. dollar is not the local currency. As a result, we are subject to foreign currency risk due to potential fluctuations in exchange rates between foreign currencies and the U.S. dollar. A significant depreciation in the value of the currency utilized in one or more countries where we have a significant presence may have a material adverse effect on the results of our operations and financial position. In addition, we are active in certain markets where economic growth is dependent on the price of commodities and the currencies in these markets can be more volatile as a result.

Our business and our managed assets are impacted by changes in currency rates, interest rates, commodity prices and other financial exposures. We may selectively utilize financial instruments to manage these exposures, including credit default swaps and other derivatives to hedge certain of our financial positions. However, a significant portion of these risks may remain unhedged. We may also choose to establish unhedged positions in the ordinary course of business.

There is no assurance that hedging strategies, to the extent they are used, will fully mitigate the risks they are intended to offset. Additionally, derivatives that we may use are also subject to their own unique set of risks, including counterparty risk with respect to the financial well-being of the party on the other side of these transactions and a potential requirement to fund mark-to-market adjustments. Our financial risk management policies may not ultimately be effective at managing these risks.

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The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 and similar laws in other jurisdictions impose rules and regulations governing oversight of the over-the-counter derivatives market and its participants. These regulations may impose additional costs and regulatory scrutiny on us. If our derivative transactions are required to be executed through exchanges or regulated facilities, we will face incremental collateral requirements in the form of an initial margin and require variation margin to be cash settled on a daily basis. Such an increase in margin requirements (relative to bilateral agreements) or a more restricted list of securities that qualify as eligible collateral, would require us to hold larger positions in cash and treasuries, which could reduce income. We cannot predict the effect of changing derivatives legislation on our hedging costs, our hedging strategy or its implementation, or the risks that we hedge. Regulation of derivatives may increase the cost of derivative contracts, reduce the availability of derivatives to protect against operational risk and reduce the liquidity of the derivatives market, all of which may reduce our use of derivatives and result in the increased volatility and decreased predictability of our cash flows.

Further increases in interest rates could increase our interest costs and adversely affect our financial performance.

Many long-life assets are interest rate sensitive. Further increases in interest rates will, other things being equal, decrease the value of an asset by reducing the present value of the cash flows expected to be produced by such asset. As the present value of an income-producing asset may decline as a result of interest rate increases, certain financial and other covenants under credit agreements governing such asset could be breached, even if we have satisfied and continue to satisfy our payment obligations thereunder. Such a breach could result in negative consequences on our financial performance and results of operations.

Additionally, any of our debt or preferred shares that are subject to variable interest rates, either as an obligation with a variable interest rate or as an obligation with a fixed interest rate that resets into a variable interest rate in the future, are subject to interest rate risk. Further, the value of any debt or preferred share that is subject to a fixed interest rate will be determined based on the prevailing interest rates and, accordingly, this type of debt or preferred share is also subject to interest rate risk.

In many jurisdictions in which we operate, a period of sharply increasing interest rates may cause certain market dislocations that could negatively impact our financial performance, increase the cost and impact the availability of debt financing and thereby negatively impact the ability of our managed assets to obtain attractive financing or refinancing and could increase the cost of such financing if obtained. Many factors may impact us and our managed assets, including interest rate increases, which would impact the amount of revenue generated by our managed assets and may lead to an increase in the amount of cash required to service our obligations.

Political instability, changes in government policy or unfamiliar cultural factors could adversely impact the value of our investments.

We are subject to geopolitical uncertainties in all jurisdictions in which we operate. We make investments in businesses that are based outside of the United States and we may pursue investments in unfamiliar markets, which may expose us to additional risks not typically associated with investing in the United States. We may not properly adjust to the local culture and business practices in such markets, and there is the prospect that we may hire personnel or partner with local persons who might not comply with our culture and ethical business practices; either scenario could result in the failure of our initiatives in new or existing markets and lead to financial losses for us and our managed assets. There are risks of political instability and significant changes in laws and policies in several of our major markets and in other parts of the world in which we conduct business from factors such as political conflict, tariffs and other protectionist trade policies, including the encouragement of the onshoring of manufacturing in the U.S. and other countries, income inequality, refugee migration, terrorism, armed conflict, the potential break-up of countries or political-economic unions and political corruption; the materialization of one or more of these risks could negatively affect our financial performance.

Further, conflict in Eastern Europe has contributed to global economic uncertainty, resulted in volatility in fuel prices, and heightened cybersecurity and cyber-terrorism disruptions and threats. Further economic and political instability and the commencement, escalation or expansion of armed conflict in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, or elsewhere in the world could significantly disrupt the free movement of goods, services and people, have a destabilizing effect on energy markets and result in potential higher costs of conducting business. Similarly, the inability of local and national governments to effectively manage ongoing political disputes could result in local, regional and/or global instability. The materialization of one or more of these risks could negatively affect our financial performance and adversely impact our business.

Any existing or new operations may be subject to significant political, economic and financial risks, which vary by country, and may include: (i) changes in government policies and regulations, including tariffs and other protectionist policies, or personnel; (ii) changes in general economic or social conditions; (iii) restrictions on currency transfer or convertibility; (iv) changes in labor relations; (v) military conflict, political instability and civil unrest; (vi) less developed or efficient financial markets than in North America; (vii) the absence of uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards, practices and disclosure requirements; (viii) less government supervision and regulation; (ix) a less developed legal or regulatory environment; (x) heightened exposure to corruption risk; (xi) political hostility to investments by foreign investors; (xii) less publicly available information in respect of companies in non-North American markets; (xiii) adversely higher or lower rates of inflation; (xiv) higher transaction costs; (xv) difficulty in enforcing contractual obligations and expropriation or confiscation of assets; and (xvi) fewer investor protections.

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Unforeseen political events in markets where we have significant investors and/or where we have managed assets or may look to for further growth of our assets and businesses, such as the North American, South American, Australian, European, Middle Eastern and Asian markets, may create economic uncertainty that has a negative impact on our financial performance. Such uncertainty could cause disruptions to our businesses, including affecting our managed assets and/or our relationships with our investors, customers and suppliers, as well as altering the relationship among tariffs and currencies, including the value of foreign currencies relative to the U.S. dollar. Disruptions and uncertainties could adversely affect our financial condition, operating results and cash flows. In addition, political outcomes in the markets in which we operate may also result in legal uncertainty and potentially divergent national laws and regulations, which can contribute to general economic uncertainty. Economic uncertainty impacting us and our managed assets could be exacerbated by supply chain disruptions, trade policy and geopolitical tensions.

Unfavorable economic conditions or changes in the industries in which we operate could adversely impact our financial performance.

We are exposed to local, regional, national and international economic conditions and other events and occurrences beyond our control, including, but not limited to, the following: short-term and long-term interest rates; inflation; credit and capital market volatility; business investment levels; government spending levels; sovereign debt risks; consumer spending levels; changes in laws, rules or regulations; trade barriers; supply chain disruptions; commodity prices; currency exchange rates and controls; national and international political circumstances (including wars, terrorist acts or security operations); catastrophic events (including pandemics/epidemics, earthquakes, tornadoes or floods); the rate and direction of economic growth; and general economic uncertainty. On a global basis, certain industries and sectors have created capacity that anticipated higher growth, which has caused volatility across all markets, including commodity markets, which may have a negative impact on our financial performance. Unfavorable economic conditions could affect the jurisdictions in which our entities are formed and where we and our managed assets operate businesses, and may cause a reduction in: (i) securities prices; (ii) the liquidity of investments made by our managed assets; (iii) the value or performance of the investments made by our managed assets; and (iv) the ability of us and our managed assets to raise or deploy capital, each of which could adversely impact our financial condition.

In general, a decline in economic conditions, either in the markets or industries in which our strategies invest, or both, will result in downward pressure on our operating margins and asset values as a result of lower demand and increased price competition for the services and products that we provide. In particular, given the importance of the U.S. to our operations, an economic downturn in this market could have a significant adverse effect on our operating margins and asset values.

Many of our private funds have a finite life that may require us to exit an investment made in a fund at an inopportune time. Volatility in the exit markets for these investments, increasing levels of capital required to finance companies to exit and rising enterprise value thresholds to go public or complete a strategic sale can all contribute to the risk that we will not be able to exit a private fund investment successfully. We cannot always control the timing of our private fund investment exits or our realizations upon exit. See “—Actions or conduct that have a negative impact on our investors’ or stakeholders’ perception of us could adversely impact our ability to attract and/or retain investor capital and generate fee revenue”. If global economic conditions deteriorate, our investment performance could suffer, resulting in, for example, the payment of less or no carried interest to us. The payment of less or no carried interest to us could cause our cash flow from operations to decrease, which could materially adversely affect our liquidity position and the amount of cash we have on hand to conduct our operations. A reduction in our cash flow from our Fee-Bearing Capital strategies and products could, in turn, require us to rely on other sources of cash such as the capital markets, which may not be available to us on acceptable terms, or debt and other forms of leverage.

In addition, in an economic downturn, there is an increased risk of default by counterparties to our investments and other transactions. In these circumstances, it is more likely that such transactions will fail or perform poorly, which may in turn have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operation and financial condition.

Inflationary pressures could adversely impact our businesses.

Our managed assets are impacted by inflationary pressures. While inflation has eased and central banks began reducing interest rates in the second half of 2024, past price increases continue to affect households and weigh on confidence and spending power. The potential for increased tariffs and trade barriers, as well as increased geopolitical risks, adds uncertainty to the long term outlook for inflation and interest rates and a reacceleration of inflation could trigger a reversal in recent interest rate decreases. Interest rate increases or other government actions taken to reduce inflation could also result in recessionary pressures in many parts of the world. Interest rate risk poses a significant market risk to us as a result of interest rate-sensitive assets and liabilities held by us and our managed assets. Higher interest rates or elevated interest rates for a sustained period could also result in an economic slowdown. Economic contraction or further deceleration in the rate of growth in certain industries, sectors or geographies may contribute to poor financial results at our managed assets. While regulated and contractual arrangements in our managed assets can provide significant protection against inflationary pressures, any sustained upward trajectory in the inflation rate may still have an impact on our managed assets and our investors, and could impact our ability to source suitable investment opportunities, match or exceed prior investment strategy performance and secure attractive debt financing, all of which could adversely impact our managed assets and our growth and capital recycling initiatives.

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Catastrophic events (or combination of events), such as earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, pandemics/epidemics, climate change, military conflict/war or terrorism/sabotage, could adversely impact our financial performance.

Our managed assets could be exposed to effects of catastrophic events, such as severe weather conditions, natural disasters, major accidents, pandemics/epidemics, acts of malicious destruction, climate change, war/military conflict or terrorism, which could materially adversely impact our operations.

A local, regional, national or international outbreak of a contagious disease, such as COVID-19, which spreads across the globe at a rapid pace impacting global commercial activity and travel, or future public health crises, epidemics or pandemics, could materially and adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition due to disruptions to commerce, reduced economic activity and other unforeseen consequences that are beyond our control.

Natural disasters and ongoing changes to the physical climate in which we and our managed assets operate may have an adverse impact on our business, financial position, results of operations or cash flows. Changes in weather patterns or extreme weather (such as floods, wildfires, droughts, hurricanes and other storms) may negatively affect our managed assets’ operations or damage assets that we may own or develop. Further, rising sea levels could, in the future, affect the value of any low-lying coastal real assets that we may manage. Climate change may increase the frequency and severity of severe weather conditions and may change existing weather patterns in ways that are difficult to anticipate. Responses to these changes could result in higher costs, such as the imposition of new property taxes and increases in insurance rates or additional capital expenditures.

Our managed assets forming part of our commercial office strategy are concentrated in large metropolitan areas, some of which have been or may be perceived to be threatened by terrorist attacks or acts of war. Furthermore, many of such properties consist of high rise buildings that may also be subject to this actual or perceived threat. The perceived threat of a terrorist attack or outbreak of war could negatively impact our ability to lease office space in our managed real estate portfolio. Renewable power and infrastructure assets that we manage, such as roads, railways, power generation facilities and ports, may also be targeted by terrorist organizations or in acts of war. Any damage or business interruption costs as a result of uninsured or underinsured acts of terrorism or war could result in a material cost to us and could adversely affect our business, financial condition or results of operation. Adequate terrorism insurance may not be available at rates we believe to be reasonable in the future. These risks could be heightened by foreign policy decisions of the U.S. (where we have significant operations) and other influential countries or general geopolitical conditions.

Additionally, our managed assets rely on free movement of goods, services and capital from around the globe. Any slowdown in international investment, business or trade as a result of catastrophic events could also have a material adverse effect on our business, financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

Ineffective management of environmental and sustainability issues, including climate change, and inadequate or ineffective health and safety programs could damage our reputation, adversely impact our financial performance and lead to regulatory action.

There is increasing stakeholder interest in sustainability considerations and how they are managed. Sustainability considerations include climate change, human capital and labor management, corporate governance, diversity and privacy and data security, among others. Increasingly, investors and lenders are incorporating sustainability considerations into their investment or lending process, respectively, alongside traditional financial considerations. Investors or potential investors may not invest in all our products given certain industries in which we operate. If we are unable to successfully integrate sustainability considerations into our practices, we may incur a higher cost of capital, lower interest in our debt securities and/or equity securities or otherwise face a negative impact on our business, operating results and cash flows and result in reputational damage.

Certain of our managed assets may be subject to compliance with laws, regulations, regulatory rules and/or guidance relating to sustainability, and any failure to comply with these laws, regulations, regulatory rules or guidance could expose us to material adverse consequences, including loss, limitations on our ability to undertake licensable business, legal liabilities, financial and non-financial sanctions and penalties, and/or reputational damage. Sustainability requirements imposed by jurisdictions in which we do business, such as the E.U. Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (2019/2088), could (a) result in additional compliance costs, disclosure obligations or other implications or restrictions; and/or (b) impact our established business practices, cost base and, by extension, our profitability.

Sustainability-related requirements and market practices differ by region, industry and issue and are evolving dynamically, and the sustainability requirements applicable to us, our managed assets or our assessment of such requirements or practices may change over time. Under emerging sustainability requirements, we may be required to classify our businesses against, or determine the alignment of underlying investments under, Sustainability-related legislative and regulatory criteria and taxonomies, some of which can be open to subjective interpretation. Our view on the appropriate classifications may develop over time, including in response to statutory or regulatory guidance or changes in industry approach to classification. A change to the relevant classification may require further actions to be taken, for example it may require further disclosures, or it may require new processes to be set up to capture data, which may lead to additional cost, disclosure obligations or other implications or restrictions.

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The transition to a lower-carbon economy has the potential to be disruptive to traditional business models and investment strategies. Efforts to limit global warming may give rise to changes in regulations, reporting and consumer sentiment that could have a negative impact on our existing operations by increasing the costs of operating our business or reducing demand for our products and services. The adverse effects of climate change and related regulation at state, provincial, federal or international levels could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

The ownership and operation of some of our managed assets carry varying degrees of inherent risk or liability related to worker health and safety and the environment, including the risk of government-imposed orders to remedy unsafe conditions and contaminated lands and potential civil liability. Compliance with health, safety and environmental standards and the requirements set out in the relevant licenses, permits and other approvals obtained by the managed assets is crucial.

Our managed assets have incurred and will continue to incur significant capital and operating expenditures to comply with sustainability requirements, including health and safety standards, to obtain and comply with licenses, permits and other approvals, and to assess and manage potential liability exposure. Nevertheless, they may be unsuccessful in obtaining or maintaining an important license, permit or other approval or become subject to government orders, investigations, inquiries or other proceedings (including civil claims) relating to health, safety and environmental matters, any of which could have a material adverse effect on us.

Health, safety and environmental laws and regulations can change rapidly and significantly, and we and/or our managed assets may become subject to more stringent laws and regulations in the future. The occurrence of any adverse health, safety or environmental event, or any changes, additions to, or more rigorous enforcement of, health, safety and environmental standards, licenses, permits or other approvals could have a significant impact on operations and/or result in material expenditures.

Owners and operators of real assets may become liable for the costs of removal and remediation of certain hazardous substances released or deposited on or in their properties, or at other locations regardless of whether the owner and operator caused the release or deposit of such hazardous materials. These costs could be significant and could reduce cash available for our managed assets. The failure to remove or remediate such substances, if any, could adversely affect our ability to sell our assets or to borrow using these assets as collateral, and could potentially result in claims or other proceedings.

Certain of our managed assets are involved in using, handling or transporting substances that are toxic, combustible or otherwise hazardous to the environment and may be in close proximity to environmentally sensitive areas or densely populated communities. If a leak, spill or other environmental incident occurred, it could result in substantial fines or penalties being imposed by regulatory authorities, revocation of licenses or permits required to operate the business, the imposition of more stringent conditions in those licenses or permits or legal claims for compensation (including punitive damages) by affected stakeholders.

Global sustainability challenges, such as greenhouse gas emissions, privacy and data security, demographic shifts and regulatory pressures are introducing new risk factors for us that we may not have dealt with previously. We are also engaged with various sustainability frameworks and organizations through which we have stated certain ambitions and commitments regarding sustainability best practices. If we are unable to successfully manage our sustainability compliance, this could have a negative impact on our reputation and our ability to raise capital and could be detrimental to our economic value and the value of our managed assets.

Failure to maintain the security of our information and technology systems could have a material adverse effect on us.

We rely on the use of technology and information systems, many of which are controlled by third-party service providers, which may not be able to accommodate our growth or may increase in cost and may become subject to cyber-terrorism or other compromises and shut-downs, and any failures or interruptions of these systems could adversely affect our businesses and results of operations.

We and our managed assets operate in businesses that are dependent on information systems and other technology, such as computer systems used for information storage, processing, administrative and commercial functions as well as the machinery and other equipment used in certain parts of our operations. In addition, our managed assets rely on telecommunication services to interface with their business networks and customers. The information and embedded systems of key business partners and regulatory agencies are also important to our operations. We rely on this technology functioning as intended. Our information systems and technology may not continue to be able to accommodate our growth, and the cost of maintaining such systems may increase from its current level. Such a failure to accommodate growth, or an increase in costs related to such information systems, could have a material adverse effect on us.