Asset Management One Co., Ltd. (Tokyo)

Name: Asset Management One Co., Ltd.
Address: Tekko Building 11 Th Floor, Tokyo, 100 0005
Telephone: 81-3-6774-5000

Asset Management One Co., Ltd. is a large advisory firm based in Tokyo. It manages $448.68 billion of regulatory assets for 1,938 client accounts. It has been registered with the SEC as an adviser since 2016.

Asset Management One Co. provides portfolio management for pooled investment vehicles, portfolio management for businesses and institutional clients, selection of other advisers, and japanese-registered unit trusts and mutual funds as well as private funds. It doesn't provide financial planning services to its clients. On top of advisory services, the firm also engages as public and private investmernt trusts.

Asset Management One Co.: assets under management

The assets under management (AUM) of Asset Management One Co., Ltd. is $448.68 billion, all of which is managed in discretionary accounts. The firm's AUM has grown by 159% since the beginning of its operation, and $448.68 billion of the total AUM is attributable to clients outside of the United States.

The firm manages $448.68 billion in discretionary accounts. On average, the discretionary accounts where all decisions are made on behalf of the client hold $231.52 million each.

Investments

The firm invests in exchange traded securities the most. They account for 55% of the total AUM. The second-largest asset type is sovereign bonds, which make up 23% of the firm’s portfolio. Investments in government bonds form 7% of the total invested assets.

Fees & Commissions

The advisory firm has several streams of revenue. Clients pay Asset Management One Co., Ltd. for their services and products based on a percentage of assets under management, fixed fees, and performance-based fees. Flat-fee based compensation is the most transparent and the one you can safely predict in advance. These fees don’t include brokerage commissions, interest, taxes, and other account expenses.

What kind of clients Asset Management One Co. serves?

The firm provides services to insurance companies, charitable organizations, other investment advisers, pooled investment vehicles, banking or thrift institutions, corporations or other businesses, pension and profit sharing plans, state or municipal government entities, and sovereign wealth funds and foreign official institutions. The largest group of clients of Asset Management One Co. is state or municipal government entities with 9 clients and $210.02 billion of assets under management. Among the 13 most similar advisory firms, Asset Management One Co. has the 2nd highest percentage of state or municipal government entities out of all clients.

The amount of regulatory assets under management is $448.68 billion for 1,587 clients. 99% of the firm’s clients are foreign persons or businesses.

Asset Management One Co. doesn't advise any private funds.

Careers at Asset Management One Co., Ltd.

The company employs 945 people that are either part- or full-time employees. 27 percent of the employees work as investment advisers or researchers. No employees are registered as investment adviser representatives with the state securities authorities.

There isn’t anyone 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 receive compensation from other entities for client referrals.

Direct owners and executive officers

Name	Entity	Date acquired	Ownership	Employer ID
Inc. Dai Ichi Life Holdings	Direct owner	1 Oct 1999	25% - 50%	foreign
Inc. Mizuho Financial Group	Direct owner	1 Mar 2003	50% - 75%	foreign
Yasumasa Nishi	President & chief executive officer	1 Jun 2014	Other	6370309
Satoshi Kato	Director, member of audit and supervisory committee	1 Oct 2016	Other	6086599
Yasutaka Yamada	Director, managing executive officer, head of planning division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6348427
Masamichi Ishikawa	Chief compliance officer, director, managing executive officer, head of risk management division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712387
Noboru Iwamatsu	Director, member of audit and supervisory committee	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712390
Hiroshi Yuki	Managing executive officer, head of investment trust marketing division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712394
Akitoshi Masuda	Managing executive officer, head of investment division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712395
Shigeo Kanzaki	Managing executive officer, head of product division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712396
Hiroshi Yabuta	Executive officer, head of it & systems, operations division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712398
Kiwao Shibamoto	Executive officer, deputy-head of it & systems, operations division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712399
Shigenori Kawamoto	Executive officer, deputy-head of risk management division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712400
Yoshitaka Yoshino	Executive officer, deputy-head of investment trust marketing division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712402
Nobutaka Aoki	Managing executive officer, deputy-head of investment division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712403
Ryuji Fujiwara	Executive officer, deputy-head of planning division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712404
Motonobu Hoshino	Managing executive officer, deputy-head of investment division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712405
Akira Noguchi	Director, managing executive officer, head of institutional marketing division	1 Oct 2016	Other	5172418
Hajime Fukuzawa	Managing executive officer, head of global business division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6052605
Akihiro Ono	Managing executive officer, co-head of institutional marketing division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712397
Fujiwara Ryuji	Executive officer, deputy-head of planning division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712404
Satoshi Nmn Kato	Director, member of audit and supervisory committee	1 Oct 2016	Other	6086599
Yasutaka Nmn Yamada	Chief financial officer, director, managing executive officer, head of planning division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6348427
Masamichi Nmn Ishikawa	Chief compliance officer, chief legal officer, director, managing executive officer, head of risk management division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712387
Noboru Nmn Iwamatsu	Director, member of audit and supervisory committee	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712390
Hiroshi Nmn Yuki	Managing executive officer, head of investment trust marketing division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712394
Hiroshi Nmn Yabuta	Chief operations officer, executive officer, head of it & systems, operations division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712398
Shigenori Nmn Kawamoto	Executive officer, deputy-head of risk management division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712400
Ryuji Nmn Fujiwara	Executive officer, deputy-head of planning division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712404
Akitoshi Nmn Masuda	Managing executive officer, head of investment division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712395
Shigeo Nmn Kanzaki	Managing executive officer, head of product division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712396
Kiwao Nmn Shibamoto	Executive officer, deputy-head of it & systems, operations division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712399
Yoshitaka Nmn Yoshino	Executive officer, deputy-head of investment trust marketing division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712402
Nobutaka Nmn Aoki	Managing executive officer, deputy-head of investment division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712403
Motonobu Nmn Hoshino	Managing executive officer, deputy-head of investment division	1 Oct 2016	Other	6712405
Akihiro Ono	Managing executive officer, head of institutional marketing division	1 Apr 2018	Other	6712397
Akira Sugano	President & chief executive officer	1 Apr 2018	Other	6943202
Koya Iwabuchi	Executive officer, deputy-head of institutional marketing division	1 Apr 2018	Other	6943211
Shinichi Aizawa	Director, deputy-president, executive officer, head of global business division	1 Apr 2018	Other	5813233
Akihiro Nmn Ono	Managing executive officer, head of institutional marketing division	1 Apr 2018	Other	6712397
Akira Nmn Sugano	President & chief executive officer	1 Apr 2018	Other	6943202
Koya Nmn Iwabuchi	Executive officer, deputy-head of institutional marketing division	1 Apr 2018	Other	6943211
Shinichi Nmn Aizawa	Director, deputy-president, executive officer, head of global business division	1 Apr 2018	Other	5813233
Akitoshi Nmn Masuda	Managing executive officer, head of product division	1 Apr 2019	Other	6712395
Shigeo Nmn Kanzaki	Managing executive officer, head of strategic fund investment division	1 Apr 2019	Other	6712396
Yoshitaka Nmn Yoshino	Executive officer, deputy-head of product division	1 Apr 2019	Other	6712402
Nobutaka Nmn Aoki	Managing executive officer, co-head of investment division	1 Apr 2019	Other	6712403
Motonobu Nmn Hoshino	Managing executive officer, co-head of investment division	1 Apr 2019	Other	6712405
Yasumitsu Nmn Mori	Managing executive officer, deputy-head of investment trust marketing division	1 Apr 2019	Other	7112249
Yusuke Nmn Sasaki	Executive officer, deputy-head of strategic fund investment division	1 Apr 2019	Other	7112250
Michiharu Nmn Maeda	Director, member of audit and supervisory committee	1 Jun 2019	Other	6378033

Based in Tokyo

The principal office where Asset Management One Co., Ltd. performs its advisory services is located at Tekko Building 11 Th Floor, Tokyo, 100 0005, 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 81-3-6774-5000 or by fax 81-3-3213-7418. The normal business hours are from 8:40am to 5:10pm on Monday - Friday. You can find more information about the New York firm at am-one.co.jp/english/.