---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001748824-25-000044"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AAMI"
cik: "0001748824"
company_name: "Acadian Asset Management Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T03:25:52.346319+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Acadian Asset Management appoints Scott Hynes as CFO effective May 19, 2025

## Summary
- Scott Hynes, age 50, named Senior VP and CFO; previously CFO of KeyCorp's Commercial Bank and finance roles at State Street.
- Compensation: $450,000 base salary, target bonus $1.05M, restricted stock units vesting over three years.
- Annual meeting results: all five director nominees elected; KPMG ratified as auditor; say-on-pay approved.
- Bylaws amended to reflect name change from BrightSphere to Acadian and other administrative updates.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001748824-25-000044
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AAMI
- cik: 0001748824
- company_name: Acadian Asset Management Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1748824/000174882425000044/0001748824-25-000044-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1748824/000174882425000044/aami-20250513.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001748824-25-000044
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001748824-25-000044.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001748824-25-000044.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Scott Hynes was appointed as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer at Acadian Asset Management Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On May 13, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Acadian Asset Management Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Scott Hynes as the Company’s Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, effective as of May 19, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1748824/000174882425000044/0001748824-25-000044-index.htm

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