About NAM

A better focus

Nomura Asset Management is a global investment manager with a single objective worldwide: to deliver consistently above average investment performance whilst providing an excellent service to its clients. To this end, we manage our portfolios actively, using a value-orientated investment philosophy, underpinned by dedicating significant resources to fundamental research.

What makes us different from other investment managers is not what we do, but how we do it. Like everyone else, we can see the big picture - but what we don't do is rely upon it.

We look beyond the consensus view, carrying out our own extensive research and refusing to accept things at face value.

The way we see it, the difference between success and failure is often the ability to spot something that others might overlook, identifying and capturing small opportunities. By keeping a close, constant watch on all the markets in which we operate - backed by stringent analysis and research - we can exploit these opportunities to the full, at the same time ensuring we do even the simplest things well and with consistency.

Credentials and credibility

Secure and stable foundations
The Nomura group of companies was founded in 1873. By the early 1920s it had grown to be the dominant force in Japanese financial services. Building on this success, the group entered the global arena in the 1950s.

Focused on investment management
The group's investment management activities are represented by Nomura Asset Management - Japan's largest independent investment manager and one of the industry's leading global players. Headquartered in Tokyo, Nomura Asset Management has dedicated investment management operations in London, Frankfurt, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Malaysia and New York. Assets under management total $280 billion and the organisation employs 1,245 people around the globe, including 330 investment professionals.

Extensive international client base
Nomura Asset Management counts among its clients many of the leading public and corporate pension funds, central banks, endowments, foundations, financial institutions, mutual funds, and individual investors from Europe to the Americas and the Middle East to the Pacific Basin.

Key Facts

$280 billion total AUM
Managed across a wide range of strategies for a diversified client base

233 portfolio managers
Located strategically around the world

68 research professionals
On the ground, in regular contact with the companies we invest in

7,904 company contacts
The number of research meetings we conduct in 2012

30 years
Our long-term proprietary database holds over 30 years of analytical data

25 years
NAM UK’s longest continuous client mandate.