page_title: Bridgewater Associates
section_title: Headquarters
hierarchical_section_title: Bridgewater Associates / Corporate affairs / Headquarters
caption_attribution_description: English: Bridgewater Associates - One Glendinning Place, Westport CT
context_page_description: Bridgewater Associates is an American investment management firm founded by Ray Dalio in 1975. The firm serves institutional clients including pension funds, endowments, foundations, foreign governments, and central banks.
  It utilizes a global macro investing style based on economic trends such as inflation, currency exchange rates, and U.S. gross domestic product. Bridgewater Associates began as an institutional investment advisory service, graduated to institutional investing, and pioneered the risk parity investment approach in 1996.
  In 1981, the company moved its headquarters from New York City to Westport, Connecticut, and currently engages 1,500 employees. As of April 2020, it had approximately US$138 billion in assets under management.
context_section_description: In 1981, the company moved its headquarters 50 miles north of New York City to Wilton, Connecticut, and in the late 1990s it moved to a larger office space on a corporate campus in Westport, Connecticut. As the company continued to expand, it became the sole tenant at the 22-acre campus. The firm's headquarters is described as retreat-like and is surrounded by the trees of a former nature reserve. The campus contains three buildings made of "midcentury modern fieldstone and glass". Since 2000 its staff has grown from 100 to 1500 employees, and the firm has taken office space in three additional buildings in the area. In an effort to consolidate its offices, the company made plans to build a 750,000- square-foot headquarters in Stamford, CT, about 15 miles from its present location in Westport, but cancelled the project in 2014.
caption: Aerial view of the Bridgewater Associates corporate campus in Westport, Connecticut
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