Ryo Takahashi

SMAM employs active and passive strategies across asset classes and a bottom-up investment approach, aiming to capture inefficiencies in capital markets. Their geographic focus is on Japan, Asia-Pacific and China. They perform in-depth research supplemented by a global network of contacts, which they integrate using a proprietary platform. Investment decisions originate from teams of investment managers. Each of SMAM’s products has a clearly defined investment style and process, with a common emphasis on research, a team approach and company-level quality control, to which teams of research analysts, specialized in sectors and/or styles, contribute. For Japanese equity Investments, they employ GARP, growth, value, small-mid and quantitative investment styles. For fixed-income, they utilize their Japan research capabilities across full active, duration neutral and corporate bond portfolios.

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Rheos Capital-IM is an active manager which follows a growth-and-value investment approach. Their investment trusts pool together the money invested by their clients, which they invest in assets such as Japanese equities. The firm currently offers the following five funds: (1) Hifumi Fund, (2) Hifumi Plus Fund, (3) Hifumi DC Fund, (4) Hifumi World Fund, and (5) Hifumi World Plus Fund as well as a privately placed investment trusts - Rheos Japan Small-cap Equity Fund. Their investment advisory business relied upon by domestic corporate pension funds and a sovereign wealth fund to make investment decisions on their behalf. Based upon discretionary investment contracts, the firm offers strategic equity portfolios.

Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management (SMAM) is a global investor that manages products using a diverse range diversity of strategies across all major asset classes. The firm offers a wide variety of investment products with particular expertise in Japanese, Asia-Pacific and Chinese investments. For their Japanese investments, the firm's major equity investment styles include GARP, Growth, Value, Small/Mid-CAP (SMID) and Quantitative. They also offer additional satellite products, as well as customized portfolios. SMAM's Japanese fixed-income investment strategies include Full Active, Duration Neutral and Corporate Bonds. The firm's Asia-Pacific and Chinese investments are managed using in-depth research by local analysts and portfolio management services by experienced fund managers.