Satoru Tsutsumi

Provides life insurance and pension products services

Dai-ichi-IP is an active, growth-oriented manager with a mid- to long-term outlook. They invest assets held in life insurance policies and insurance reserve funds from a prudent perspective and aim at maintaining a stable investment income stream. A large part of the firm’s assets is invested in fixed-income, complemented by equity, loans and real estate. The majority of their assets are invested in Japan, complemented by foreign investments which are perceived as potentially more profitable. Yen-denominated fixed-income constitutes the core of Dai-ichi-IP's portfolio, and includes long-term and super-long-term bonds. Foreign bonds investments are related to a close monitoring of currency exchange rates. For Japanese equity investments, the firm actively selects sectors and companies with growth potential. Foreign stocks investments are based on a combination of in-house research and external input from independent sell-side firms, and seek to achieve regional as well as investment style diversification.

AMO looks for the market inefficiency (gaps between market price and fair value) and seek to capture investment opportunity by bottom-up approach leveraging the global research networks, top-down approach by macro-economic analysis and quantitative approach using the latest financial engineering to aim to achieve excess returns for the mid to long-term. They are a signatory to the United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Investment Initiative (UNPRI).

Provides life insurance services