The world's number one hedge fund
Bridgewater, the largest hedge fund in the world, entered China on March 20 16. The company does not manage assets for the rich, but mainly serves institutional investors, including pension funds, endowment funds, foreign governments and central banks.
Company/enterprise culture
In bridgewater, the most important goal is to pursue excellence, accuracy and continuous improvement. They believe that the pursuit of Excellence needs to follow certain rules in work and interpersonal communication. They want to know what the exact thing is and how to solve it in the best way.
Bridgewater attaches great importance to independent thinking and innovation, because independent thinking can lead to the collision of ideas, while innovation requires constant mistakes. In order to promote this cultural atmosphere of thinking and innovation, they created a completely open working environment. In bridgewater Company, everyone has the right and obligation to ensure the excellent completion of the work. Therefore, the company encourages every employee to maintain a confident and modest attitude at all times in order to find the best working path.
Arguments and mistakes are very necessary in the company, because they are the motivation of continuous learning and can maximize the potential of employees. The company requires employees to give outspoken feedback frequently, including holding a "get to the bottom" meeting to discuss the reasons why employees failed to complete the task, but employees are absolutely not allowed to gossip in private. At the same time, whenever there is a problem, employees must write a memo in the so-called "problem log". The company implements a fully transparent management mode, and any meeting needs to be recorded and made public to all employees.
This unique culture enables people to give full play to their roles, so that employees of the company can complete their tasks well and maintain good relations with colleagues and customers.