Baird 2025 Annual Report: The Baird Way.
The Baird Way 2025 Annual Report
“The Baird Way encompasses our Mission, Core Beliefs and Associate Promise. The clarity of purpose it defines has been essential to the trust we have built with our clients and associates over the past 106 years, and is part of what makes us a great place to work.”
- Steve Booth, Chairman & CEO
Financial Information
Baird Financial Group is the ultimate parent company of all of Baird’s global operations. Our primary businesses are wealth management, capital markets, asset management and private equity. We are privately held and employee-owned.
Our Businesses and Corporate Resource Groups
Baird Advisors | Baird Equity Asset Management
Experienced managers with time-tested approaches designed to deliver consistent performance for institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals via risk-controlled portfolios and Baird Funds.
Global Investment Banking | Global Equities
A comprehensive platform of M&A and advisory services, equity research, sales and trading,
underwriting and private capital markets financing capabilities serving private equity,
corporate and institutional clients around the world.
Public Finance | Sales & Trading Provides investment ideas, timely analysis and trading execution to institutional investors, as well as premier debt underwriting and advisory services to public, private and nonprofit clients.
Baird Capital | Baird Principal Group | Strategic Investments
Comprises the firm’s global private equity and strategic investment activities,
managed by Baird Capital and Baird Principal Group.
Provides comprehensive financial advice and planning, investment consulting and trust services for individuals, families, business owners and executives across the United States.
Impacting Our Communities
We’re proud to have a long tradition of community involvement at Baird. Our associates continue to build on this legacy through their strong commitment to giving back.
Leadership
The members of Baird’s Executive Committee average 27 years at the firm, representing a significant continuity of leadership and advocacy for the core values Baird was founded on in 1919.
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“Baird” is the marketing name for Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated and its subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide.
Robert W. Baird Limited and Baird Capital Partners Europe Limited are authorized and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Conduct Authority.
Services or products may not be available in all jurisdictions or to all persons or entities.
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