Motoi Umino

NAM is an active manager which generally invests client assets in Japanese equity securities through a bottom-up approach based on research and analysis by analysts and valuations that aims to create portfolios that the firm believes will outperform the Japanese equity market (TOPIX). The firm employs the following investment strategies: Equity, Fixed Income and Multi-Asset. They adopt a team-oriented investment approach for their equity strategy whereby portfolio managers and analysts can exchange opinions and have sufficient in-depth discussions about investment opportunities in order to capture superior medium- to long-term investment return. The firm offers a broad range of fixed-income products with a wide variety of investment targets and strategies such as Japanese government bonds, credits, futures, and foreign fixed-income bonds with currency hedges.