Nancy Zimmerman
Nancy Zimmerman is one of the most successful female hedge fund founders in the United States, and the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Bracebridge Capital, a leading Boston-based hedge fund manager. Bracebridge is a pioneer in the field of absolute return investing and for over 25 years has focused on generating returns that are largely uncorrelated with broad moves in equities, currencies and rates. Prior to founding Bracebridge, Zimmerman worked at O’Connor and Associates and managed the interest rate option group on a worldwide basis for Goldman Sachs. She got her start in finance trading currency options on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Nancy Zimmerman Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Academic History
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B.A., Economics
Bracebridge manages funds from the endowments of Yale University and Princeton University.
The firm pursues investment strategies primarily within the global fixed income markets with the objectives of capital preservation and absolute return without significant correlation to equity, interest rate and foreign exchange markets.
Under her leadership, Bracebridge has emerged as the largest holder of various spot Bitcoin ETFs.
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
Board of Fellows, Brown University
Inaugural Chair, Brown’s Carney Institute for Brain Science
RECOGNITIONS
2024 Forbes America's Self-Made Women
2022 50 Over 50
HEALTHCARE & PHILANTHROPY
Zimmerman supports innovative scientific research.
Through the Carney Institute as well as the Transformative Scholars Program in Neurology at Mass General, she has funded early-career investigators who are engaged in cutting-edge research into the brain.
She has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with philanthropic support for coronavirus diagnostic development at The Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard.
She also supported the expansion of testing in Section 202 housing for the elderly.