Reasons our firm gets selected
Broad coverage ranging from hedge funds to Japanese domestic privately placed investment trusts with high levels of liquidity and high transparency.
As a Financial Instruments Business Operator which conducts Type I Financial Instruments Business (traditional securities business), Type II Financial Instruments Business (solicitation of LPS), Non-Discretionary Investment Advisory Business and Discretionary Investment Management Business, we are able to offer a variety of investment products for institutional investors, such as offshore hedge funds, private asset products structured as offshore limited partnerships, and Japanese domestic privately placed investment trusts with high liquidity and high transparency for Japanese regional banks.
Communication based on long-term relationships with investment managers
Our experience in searching for portfolio managers search for as candidates for alternative investment products, conduct detailed due diligences including onsite visits and determine whether the candidate underlying funds are fit for our business or our clients’ investment criteria. We believe that the purpose of investing in alternative investment products is not only to obtain superior return from underlying funds, but to learn from the investment manager’s market views, investment ideas, investment techniques through regular reporting and meetings with investment managers.
We always support our clients to understand the underlying funds itself and the investment managers of the underlying funds by providing our clients with detailed information learned from regular reporting and ongoing monitoring, and to building long-term fiduciary relationship between our clients and the investment managers of the underlying funds. It is essential for our clients to make their investments more meaningful as well as to gain attractive return from them.
Flexible and objective selection as an independent Financial Instruments Business Operator
As an independent Financial Instruments Business Operator, we objectively search for candidate alternative investment products, irrespective of corporate group or business partnership. As our search process coverage includes not only well-known, large-sized AUM, mature-stage investment managers, but moderate medium-sized AUM, growth-stage investment managers with innovative investment techniques, we also search for superior alternative investment products, without prejudice to name value or fund AUM. We will keep being a trusted gatekeeper for institutional investors Japan.
