Press Releases

Maintrust, the Nomura Group’s German asset management company, has been renamed as Nomura Asset Management Deutschland KAG mbH (NAM Deutschland).
April 2010
In the wake of the rebranding, Nomura Asset Management UK and Maintrust will be intensifying their cooperation and reinforcing their commitment in the German market. In future, NAM Deutschland will be offering its customers an extended product range and exclusive access to the successful international strategies of the Nomura Asset Management Group.

Nomura UCITs assets continue to grow.
April 2010
Nomura Asset Management is pleased to announce that it has just breached the milestone of $1 billion of assets under management for its range of UCITs funds. Over the past six months assets under management in the Nomura Funds Ireland and Nomura Funds Luxembourg ranges have more than doubled.

Nomura Launches Japan Strategic Value Fund 
November 2009
Nomura Asset Management has successfully launched a new $230m Japanese equity pooled fund targeted at institutional investors in the EMEA region. Based on a nine year track record established by the portfolio management team in Tokyo, the strategy employs a value based approach to stock selection. The equivalent Japan domiciled fund has a 5 star rating from Morningstar in Japan.

Nomura Launches Fundamental Index Global Equity Fund
Nomura Asset Management UK Ltd ("Nomura") is very pleased to announce that it has launched the Nomura Fundamental Index Global Equity Fund under the Nomura Funds Ireland plc umbrella. In the aftermath of the credit crunch, a number of commentators have highlighted the need for pension funds to increase their manager/strategy diversification, and hence reduce their risk profile, whilst continuing the pursuit of alpha. In this context the growing awareness of the benefits of fundamental indices over market cap-orientated ones has inclined Nomura to launch a new Global Equity Fund that will adopt this methodology.

Nomura Asset Management wins ‘Professional Pensions magazine Emerging Markets Manager of the Year’ Award 2008
December 2008
Nomura Asset Management UK Ltd ("Nomura") is very pleased to announce that it has won the “Emerging Markets Manager of the Year Award” from Professional Pensions magazine in the UK. The other short-listed managers for the award were: Ashmore Investment Management, HSBC Global Asset Management, Neptune Investment Management, Nicholas Applegate Capital Management and Pictet Asset Management.