PPM America Earns “Best Places to Work in Money Management” Honor for Sixth Time

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- PPM America, Inc. (PPM) is proud to announce its recognition as one of the “Best Places to Work in Money Management” by Pensions & Investments for 2025. This marks the sixth time PPM has received this prestigious honor, a testament to the firm’s ongoing commitment to an engaged and supportive workplace. For the results announced yesterday, PPM was one of 43 companies to be selected in the 100 to 499 employee category, as well as one of 105 companies recognized in the industry overall.

PPM participates in numerous philanthropic activities throughout the year in the Chicagoland area, including Nourishing Hope.

“This honor reflects PPM’s culture of empowering our people to contribute their best ideas and support one another in a collaborative work environment,” said Jeff Seaver, Senior Managing Director, Head of PPM’s Global Client Group. “Our focus on delivering consistent results and exceptional service stems from a client-first mindset. That same sense of responsibility inspires us to give back through philanthropic efforts across the Chicagoland area.”

PPM offers comprehensive benefits, including robust health and insurance offerings, retirement contribution matching and tuition reimbursement. These programs support employees’ personal and professional growth, reinforcing the firm’s belief that investing in people leads to better outcomes for clients.

“As their employees attest, the companies named to this year’s Best Places to Work list demonstrate a commitment to building and maintaining a strong workplace culture,’’ said Pension & Investments Editor-in-Chief Julie Tatge. “In doing so, they’re helping their employees, clients and their businesses succeed.’’

Since 2012, Pensions & Investments has produced the Best Places to Work in Money Management list to highlight top employers in the money management industry. Pensions & Investments partnered with Workforce Research Group, a research firm specializing in identifying great places to work, to conduct a two-part survey process of employers and their employees. For a complete list of the Pensions & Investments’ Best Places to Work in Money Management 2025 winners, including PPM, go to pionline.com/BPTW2025.

About PPM America

Our mission is to be seen by clients and their advisors as a consistently reliable partner to help them achieve their long-term value goals.

PPM is a US-based institutional asset manager with $90.09 billion in assets under management as of 30 September 2025.¹ Established in Chicago in 1990, PPM exists to consistently support institutional clients in achieving their long-term value goals. We offer our mentality of hard work, straight talk, full transparency and humility. Our success is supported by a team-based culture that encourages debate, collaboration and consistency. At the center of our belief is the fact that our best ideas to date have and can come from any team member anywhere in our firm. We believe the success of our investment culture is best demonstrated by the strong retention of our clients and investment professionals.

PPM is an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Jackson Financial Inc. (NYSE: JXN), a publicly traded company.

¹ AUM includes committed but unfunded capital for PPM’s private equity and commercial real estate businesses. AUM includes both securities issued by PPM CLO vehicles held by PPM separately managed account clients and the underlying collateral assets of the CLO vehicles managed by PPM.

About Pensions & Investments

Pensions & Investments, owned by Crain Communications Inc., is the 52-year-old global news source of money management and institutional investing. Pensions & Investments is written for executives at defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plans, endowments, foundations and sovereign wealth funds, as well as those at investment management and other investment-related firms. Pensions & Investments provides timely and incisive coverage of events affecting the money management and retirement businesses. Visit Pension & Investments’ website at www.pionline.com.

About Workforce Research Group

Workforce Research Group works with partners in the US, Canada, and the UK to help identify organizations who have created workplace cultures where employees love to come to work. Workforce Research Group conducts employer and employee surveys to determine if an organization is good enough to make each list and where they rank in their city, state, province, industry, or country. PPM did not pay Workforce Research Group to participate in the survey and evaluation resulting in the 2024 recognition as one of the Best Places to Work in Money Management referenced above. However, PPM did purchase a report of the detailed 2025 survey results from Best Companies Group for internal use only.

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