Nissay Asset Management Corporation (Tokyo)


Nissay Asset Management Corporation is a large advisory firm based in Tokyo. It manages $42.57 billion of regulatory assets for 396 client accounts. It has been registered with the SEC as an adviser since 2001.

Nissay Asset Management Corporation provides portfolio management for pooled investment vehicles, portfolio management for businesses and institutional clients, publication of newsletters, and educational seminars and workshops. It doesn't provide financial planning services to its clients. On top of advisory services, the firm doesn't engage in other business activities.

Nissay Asset Management Corporation: assets under management

The assets under management (AUM) of Nissay Asset Management Corporation is $42.57 billion, all of which is managed in discretionary accounts. The firm's AUM has gone down by -27% since the beginning of its operation, and $42.57 billion of the total AUM is attributable to clients outside of the United States.

The firm manages $42.57 billion in discretionary accounts. On average, the discretionary accounts where all decisions are made on behalf of the client hold $107.5 million each.

Investments

The firm invests in exchange traded securities the most. They account for 65% of the total AUM. The second-largest asset type is sovereign bonds, which make up 25% of the firm’s portfolio. Investments in cash and cash equivalents form 2% of the total invested assets.

Fees & Commissions

The advisory firm has several streams of revenue. Clients pay Nissay Asset Management Corporation for their services and products based on a percentage of assets under management, fixed fees, and performance-based fees. The adviser charges an additional fee when a set benchmark is outperformed. These fees don’t include brokerage commissions, interest, taxes, and other account expenses.

What kind of clients Hiroyuki Nmn Nishi serves?

The firm provides services to pooled investment vehicles, corporations or other businesses, pension and profit sharing plans, and state or municipal government entities. The largest group of clients of Hiroyuki Nmn Nishi is pension and profit sharing plans with 309 clients and $18.44 billion of assets under management. Among the 8 most similar advisory firms, Nissay Asset Management Corporation has the 2nd highest percentage of pension and profit sharing plans out of all clients.

The amount of regulatory assets under management is $34.13 billion for 392 clients. 83% of the firm’s clients are foreign persons or businesses.

Nissay Asset Management Corporation doesn't advise any private funds.

Careers at Nissay Asset Management Corporation

The company employs 543 people that are either part- or full-time employees. 31 percent of the employees work as investment advisers or researchers. No employees are registered as investment adviser representatives with the state securities authorities.

There are 2 people with the role of looking for and bringing in new clients on behalf of the firm. The firm doesn’t compensate employees in addition to the salary for bringing in new clients. Employees don’t receive compensation from other entities for client referrals.

Hiroyuki Nmn Nishi has been acting as President since 1 Mar 2018. Tetsuo Kitagawa has served as the Chief Investment Officer since 1 Mar 2010. Masataka Hama joined the executive team most recently as the Non Executive Director / Member Of The Board.

Direct owners and executive officers


Name Entity Date acquired Ownership Employer ID
Nippon Life Insurance Company Shareholder 1 Apr 1995 75% - 100% foreign entity
Yasuo Hanakawa Managing director and chief marketing officer 1 Jun 1998 Other 4421043
Toshihiro Mikawa Managing director and chief marketing officer 1 Jul 1998 Other 4421040
Norikazu Minoshima Managing director and chief administrative officer 1 Jul 1998 Other 4421045
Masanori Shigesada Auditor 1 Jul 1998 Other 4421061
Llc Putnam U.S. Holdings I Shareholder 1 Apr 1999 Other 04-3543044
Llc Putnam Investments Shareholder 1 Apr 1999 Other 04-3543044
Toshiaki Yoshida Managing director and chief investment officer 1 Jun 1999 Other 4421022
Steven Spiegel Director 1 Jun 1999 Other 432072
Kunie Okamoto Director 1 Jul 1999 Other 4421180
Masahiro Yamada President and chief executive officer 1 May 2000 Other 4421029
Keiji Tsuda Managing director and chief operating officer and chief of product development 1 May 2000 Other 4421033
Hideichiro Kobayashi Director 1 May 2000 Other 4330009
Tsutomu Miyoshi Auditor 1 May 2000 Other 4421070
Ryuichiro Saito Director and chief marketing officer 1 Mar 2001 Other 4421047
Wataru Taguchi Director 1 Jun 2001 Other 4421049
Masafumi Nakatani Supervising auditor 1 Jun 2001 Other 4421056
Keiji Tsuzukidani Director and chief marketing officer 1 Mar 2002 Other 4522426
Kenzo Yoshinaga General manager and chief compliance officer 1 Mar 2002 Other 5003912
Masao Katagiri Auditor 1 Jun 2002 Other 4542606
Masatoshi Nishikawa Director 1 Mar 2003 Other 4663534
Nobuaki Sakai Director 1 Mar 2003 Other 4663536
Norikazu Minoshima Supervising auditor 1 Jun 2003 Other 4421045
Kazuyuki Katsuda Auditor 1 Jun 2003 Other 4663537
Kiyoshi Ujihara Director 1 Jun 2003 Other 4333740
Tadakazu Tanimoto Director and chief investment officer 1 Mar 2004 Other 4804010
Takeshi Furuichi Director 1 Mar 2004 Other 4804014
Shinichi Sakyo Director 1 Mar 2004 Other 4804011
Atsuhiko Nozaki Auditor 1 Jun 2004 Other 4817196
John Frederick Boneparth Director 1 Jul 2004 Other 1961015
Yanagihara Makoto Director 1 Jun 2005 Other 4987558
Taguchi Wataru President and chief executive officer 1 Jun 2005 Other 4987552
Shimizu Masashi Auditor 1 Jun 2005 Other 4987562
Wataru Taguchi President and chief executive officer 1 Jun 2005 Other 4421049
Makoto Yanagihara Director 1 Jun 2005 Other 5004014
Masashi Shimizu Auditor 1 Jun 2005 Other 5004022
Jeffrey F Peters Director 1 Aug 2005 Other 2071974
Yasuji Miwa General manager and chief compliance officer 1 Mar 2006 Other 5116527
Yoshinori Sakai Corporate auditor 1 Jun 2006 Other 5199549
Nobuaki Sakai Corporate auditor 1 Mar 2007 Other 4663536
Yoshinori Sakai Director and chief marketing officer 1 Mar 2007 Other 5199549
Yasuaki Osugi Director and chief administrative officer 1 Mar 2007 Other 5368696
Keiji Tsuzukidani Managing director and chief marketing officer 1 Jun 2007 Other 4522426
Yoshikazu Fukuno Director 1 Jun 2007 Other 5368695
Tomiji Akabayashi Director 1 Jun 2007 Other 5368693
Atsushi Takemura Auditor 1 Jun 2007 Other 5368692
Masataka Shimasaki Chairman 1 Jun 2007 Other 5368690
Gordon M Forrester Director 1 Aug 2007 Other 2292753
Toshiyuki Maeda Director and chief marketing officer 1 Mar 2008 Other 4378664
Yoshikazu Takeda Director 1 Mar 2008 Other 5510519
Koji Miyazaki Member, board of auditors 1 Jun 2008 Other 5550732
Masaki Ueno Member, board of auditors 1 Aug 2008 Other 5586757
John R. Pike Non-executive director/ member of the board 1 Dec 2008 Other 2601340
Yasuaki Osugi Director and chief marketing officer 1 Mar 2009 Other 5368696
Toshiyuki Maeda Director and chief administrative officer 1 Mar 2009 Other 4378664
Masaki Ueno General manager and chief compliance officer 1 Mar 2009 Other 5586757
Jofu Komatsubara Director and chief marketing officer 1 Mar 2009 Other 5655891
Masaki Kakiyama Director 1 Mar 2009 Other 5655896
Shohei Ueda Member, board of auditors 1 Mar 2009 Other 5655899
Takashi Minagawa President and chief executive officer 1 Jul 2009 Other 5693316
Yoshihiro Abiko Executive director/member of the board/chief compliance officer 1 Mar 2010 Other 5922502
Takeshi Furuichi Non-executive director/member of the board 1 Mar 2010 Other 4804014
Tomiji Akabayashi Executive director/member of the board/chief operating officer/chief compliance officer 1 Mar 2010 Other 5368693
Tetsuo Kitagawa Executive director/member of the board/chief investment officer 1 Mar 2010 Other 1031680
Yosuke Matsunaga Director/member of the board 1 Mar 2010 Other 5922517
Toshihiko Orita Non-executive director/member of the board 1 Mar 2011 Other 5922506
Hidenobu Uehara Executive director/member of the board / chief marketing officer 1 Mar 2011 Other 5922513
Yoshiaki Hirayama Executive director/chief investment officer 1 Mar 2011 Other 5922515
Yutaka Ideguchi Auditor/member of the board of auditors 1 Mar 2011 Other 5922520
Yasushi Nagai Auditor/member of the board of auditors 1 Jul 2011 Other 5955204
Shinji Kuge Executive director / member of the board / chief operating officer 1 Mar 2012 Other 6039680
Akira Hosoda Executive director / member of the board 1 Mar 2012 Other 6039695
Isao Matsubara Auditor / member of the board of auditors 1 Mar 2012 Other 6040397
Yoshinori Okumura Chief compliance officer 1 Mar 2012 Other 6039684
Toshihiro Ito Director / member of the board 1 Mar 2012 Other 6040396
Kiyoshi Ujihara President / chief executive officer / member of the board 1 Apr 2012 Other 4333740
Hirose Kojiro Managing director/ member of the board/ chief marketing officer/ head of osaka branch office 1 Mar 2013 Other 6177763
Ozeki Hiroshi Non-executive director/ member of the board 1 Mar 2013 Other 6177770
Gotoda Tomonao Chief compliance officer 1 Feb 2014 Other 6296557
Masayoshi Tsuda Executive director / member of the board/ chief investment officer 1 Mar 2014 Other 6344907
Kazuo Sato Non-executive director / member of the board 1 Jun 2014 Other 6344898
Yasushi Hasegawa Auditor / member of the board of auditors 1 Jun 2014 Other 6344902
Daizo Naito Executive director / member of the board / chief investment officer 1 Mar 2015 Other 6464155
Yuji Yoshimasu Auditor / member of the baord of auditors 1 Jun 2015 Other 6518584
Kiyomi Kikuchi Auditor / member of the board of auditors 1 Mar 2016 Other 6674917
Osamu Kubotani Auditor / member of the board of auditors 1 Mar 2016 Other 6674918
Hiroshi Shimizu Non-executive director / member of the board 1 Mar 2016 Other 6674910
Nobuyuki Souda Non-executive director / member of the board 1 Mar 2016 Other 6674912
Takahiko Oohata Non-executive director / member of the board 1 Mar 2016 Other 6674915
Tomiji Akabayashi President / chief executive officer / member of the board 1 Apr 2016 Other 5368693
Makoto Kaneshige Executive director / member of the board / chief administrative officer 1 Mar 2017 Other 6826461
Keisuke Kawasaki Executive director / memeber of the board / chief operating officer 1 Mar 2017 Other 6826469
Mutsufumi Seki Executive director / member of the board / chief compliance officer 1 Mar 2017 Other 6826471
Makiko Fuse Non-executive director / member of the board 1 Mar 2017 Other 6826479
Etsuro Kuronuma Non-executive director / member of the board 1 Mar 2017 Other 6826485
Tetsuaki Ohgami Non-executive director / member of the board 1 Mar 2017 Other 6826487
Hidenobu Uehara Managing director /member of the board 1 Mar 2018 Other 5922513
Akira Hosoda Managing director /member of the board 1 Mar 2018 Other 6039695
Hiroyuki Nmn Nishi President/member of the board 1 Mar 2018 Other 5983814
Yasutoyo Takada Managing director/member of the board/ chief marketing officer 1 Mar 2018 Other 6980671
Yosuke Matsunaga Non-executive director / member of the board 1 Mar 2018 Other 5922517
Hiroki Fukuta Auditor/member of the board of auditors 1 Jun 2018 Other 6980674
Chiaki Osone Non-executive director / member of the board 1 Mar 2019 Other 7143859
Masataka Hama Non-executive director / member of the board 1 Jun 2019 Other 7143858
Kazuo Kobayashi Auditor / member of the board of auditors 1 Jun 2019 Other 7143861

Based in Tokyo

The principal office where Nissay Asset Management Corporation performs its advisory services is located at 6 6, Marunouchi 1 Chome, Tokyo, 100 8219, which is also the mailing address of the firm. The firm also has an office outside of the United States.

You can reach the main office by calling the phone number +81-3-5533-4000 or by fax +81-3-5533-4099. The normal business hours are 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. on Monday - Friday. You can find more information about the New York firm at nenkin.nissay.co.jp.

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