In Brief: IPO for a Boston Asset Management Firm

Affiliated Managers Group Inc., an asset management holding company that acquires majority interests in midsize investment firms, went public Friday.

The initial offering of 7.5 million common shares, priced at $23.50, began trading at $25.75 per share. Trading under the symbol AMG on the New York Stock Exchange, it closed at $26.50. The offering was co-managed by Goldman, Sachs & Co., BT Alex. Brown Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co., and Schroder & Co.

Boston-based AMG holds stakes in 10 investment management firms with a total of $40 billion under management, including Tweedy, Browne Co., a New York mutual fund company.

AMG was founded in December 1993 by William J. Nutt, a former president of Boston Co., now an investment management subsidiary of Mellon Bank Corp.

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