ETF Management Companies

Asset Management One Co., Ltd. (Code: 13694)

Asset Management One Asset Management One Co., Ltd., starts through the integration of DIAM Co., Ltd., Mizuho Trust & Banking Co.,Ltd., Mizuho Asset Management Co., Ltd. and Shinko Asset Management Co., Ltd. , (collectively, the “Integrating Companies”) in October 2016.
We will aim to achieve significant development as a global asset management company, providing its customers with solutions of the highest standards by combining the asset management-related knowledge and experience accumulated and developed by each Integrating Companies over many years.
We all keep on making efforts to expand line of ETF products and enhance our service qualities.

WisdomTree Management Jersey Limited (Code: 16724)

ETFS Management Company Limited WisdomTree was founded in 2006 with a passion for creating better ways to invest, by being the first investment manager to weight by dividends. We have never accepted the status quo and we think our investors shouldn't either.
Since 2014, our European business has grown in terms of our product set and AUM. In April 2018, we completed the acquisition of ETF Securities' exchange-traded commodities, currencies and short-and-leveraged business, including the world's first gold ETP. In September 2019, we unified 224 products under the WisdomTree brand and closed 192 duplicative or extraneous products across our product set.
Today we're the biggest independent ETP provider globally and offer one of the most innovative ranges of ETPs, covering commodities, currencies, equities and fixed income.

Simplex Asset Management Co., Ltd. (Code: 16714)

Simplex Asset Management Simplex Asset Management Co.,Ltd. is a leading and independent hedge fund and investment management firm in Japan. We provide a range of services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes financial institutions, corporations and high-net-worth individuals globally. Maximizing our clients' return and earning their trust is critical, while applying cutting edge financial skills, strict compliance and sophisticated risk management capabilities.

State Street Global Advisors Singapore Limited (Code: 13494)

State Street Global Advisors Singapore Limited ABF PAN ASIA BOND INDEX FUND (Ticker 1349) is managed by State Street Global Advisors Singapore Limited (The Manager), which is part of State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), one of the largest investment managers in the world. SSgA is the investment division of State Street Corporation (State Street), a bank holding company whose shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "STT". SSgA was established in 1978. SSgA has offices in 29 cities around the world, with portfolio management capabilities in Amsterdam, Bangalore, Boston, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Milan, Montreal, Munich, Paris, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Zurich. State Street Global Advisors Singapore Limited was established in 2000 and holds a capital market licensed in fund management regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. In addition to being the Manager of PAIF, the Manager also acts as the manager of Singapore's first domestic exchange traded fund1 (ETF).

State Street Global Advisors Trust Company (Code: 15574)

State Street Global Advisors Trust Company State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) -in partnership with the American Stock Exchange-created the first ETF in 1993 (SPDR S&P 500 - Ticker 1557). Since then, SSGA has been an industry innovator through the introduction of many ground-breaking products, including first-to-market in U.S. successes with gold, international real estate, international fixed income and industry-classified ETFs. | SSGA is the asset management business of State Street Corporation, a financial holding company and one of the world's leading providers of financial services to institutional investors. SSGA operates through State Street Global Advisors Trust Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of State Street Bank and Trust Company, the principal banking subsidiary of State Street Corporation, which was founded in 1792 in Boston and is known as one of the largest custodian banks with unparalleled industry expertise and innovation grounded in centuries of history.

Daiwa Asset Management Co., Ltd. (Code: 13054)

Daiwa Asset Management Daiwa Asset Management, as a leading asset management company in Japan, has been providing a number of innovative investment trust products to investors since the inauguration of the first Japanese investment trust by its predecessor in 1937.

We also created and listed "Daiwa ETF TOPIX" and "Daiwa ETF Nikkei225" when the ETF market was inaugurated in Japan in 2001. Moreover, in 2017 we launched 3 types of ETFs tracked to the ESG indices.

Our highest priority is to build long-term relationships with our clients. We will continue our efforts to contribute to society through our asset management business, aiming to be the most trusted and selected asset management company for investors.

Daiwa Asset Management

Nikko Asset Management Co., Ltd. (Code: 13084)

Nikko Asset Management Nikko Asset Management seeks to provide investors with a wide variety of convenient options for investment in ETFs and actively develops products in all categories from a full range of Japanese equity ETFs to newly designed ETFs incorporating foreign bonds, equities of advanced and emerging countries, and domestic and foreign REITs. Nikko Asset Management will continue to develop and manage a diverse offering of high-quality ETFs designed to fully meet evolving investor needs and provide a wide range of investment opportunity.

Norinchukin Zenkyoren Asset Management Co., Ltd. (Code: 15954)

Norinchukin Zenkyoren Asset Management Norinchukin Zenkyoren Asset Management Co.,Ltd.(NZAM) was established in October 1985 by the Norinchukin Bank and Zenkyoren (National Mutual Insurance Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives), both of which are one of Japan’s leading institutional investors, and initially started as an investment advisory company. Since our inception, we have offered suitable investment advisory service focusing especially on institutional investors.
Through the globalization of financial markets, investors that confront with lower-return and complexity of risk control seek for more sophisticated investment measures to maximize returns by their diversified investment opportunities. Our mission is to provide the best solution to our clients, pursuing investment opportunities with practical expertise.
We believe that NZAM’s disciplined investment service is worthy for our clients and will sustain and enhance our value trusted by investors.

Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd. (Code: 13064)

Nomura Asset Management Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd., established in 1959, is the core company within the Asset Management Division of the Nomura Group, serving retail and institutional investors worldwide. As a world-class asset management firm that possesses a strong competitive edge in Japan and elsewhere in Asia, our focus on research and portfolio management enables us to pursue superior investment performance to meet the varied and exacting needs of our diverse client base. Understanding the importance of high ethical standards in an entity entrusted with clients' assets, we strive to anticipate and respond to the needs of our clients over the long-term, while also contributing to society in general by strictly upholding our fiduciary duties and by conducting our business activities responsibly.
We provide a number of ETFs, of which brand name is "NEXT FUNDS" (Nomura EXchange Traded FUNDS)", which are linked to domestic and foreign stock indeces, REIT index, and commodity prices, etc. Please visit our website

BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd. (Code: 13294)

BlackRock Japan About BlackRock
BlackRock is a leader in investment management, risk management and advisory services for institutional and retail clients worldwide. At September 30, 2014, BlackRock’s AUM was $4.52 trillion. BlackRock offers products that span the risk spectrum to meet clients’ needs, including active, enhanced and index strategies across markets and asset classes. Products are offered in a variety of structures including separate accounts, mutual funds, iShares® (exchange-traded funds), and other pooled investment vehicles.

About iShares
iShares is a global product leader in exchange traded funds with over 700 funds globally across equities, fixed income and commodities, which trade on 20 exchanges worldwide. The iShares Funds are bought and sold like common stocks on securities exchanges. The iShares Funds are attractive to many individual and institutional investors and financial intermediaries because of their relative low cost, tax efficiency and trading flexibility.

Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Company, Limited (Code: 15624)

Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Co., Ltd. is a leading asset management company with a robust business base that does not depend on a specific financial group and Japanese leading companies in various financial fields as major shareholders.

Under our management philosophy, "To become the best asset management company and contribute to the Quality of Life", all executives and employees will continue every effort to provide the highest quality investment performance as true professionals, and create a diversified and dynamic society through healthy investment practices.

"We will continue to pursue the improvement in the Quality of Life of all the stakeholders, including our customers."

Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management Co., Ltd.(Code: 26424)

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management is one of the the largest asset managers in Asia, with over 80 trillion yen in assets under management as of the end of March 2021.
As a responsible institutional investor, we actively engage in ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) activities from global perspective through constructive dialogue with companies and collaboration with international organizations. We will seek to shape an asset management for the new era and foster a prosperous and sustainable society for the sake of maximizing our clients' long-term investment returns.

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management

Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (Code: 15404)

Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation Mitsubishi UFJ trust and banking cooporation (MUTB) is one of the leading trust banks in Japan and a wholly-owned subsidiary of "Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group". In 2010, MUTB launched "Fruit of Gold" series which is the first physically-backed ETFs to use the Beneficiary Certificates Issuing Trusts mechanism based on the Trust Act. "Fruit of Gold" series comprised of four types of ETFs (Gold, Platinum, Silver, Palladium) and the only ETF series of which the underlying physical assets (precious metals) are held in trust in Japan.

Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management Co.,Ltd. (Code: 13444)

Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management is the asset management company of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, the largest and oldest financial group in Japan. We have the longest such track record in Japan.
We also have many asset management professionals with high ethical standards and expertise.
The word "MAXIS," is the brand name of the ETF series managed by Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management.
We have given it this name in the hope that Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management will aim for maximum quality and to be the axis of customers' investments.

Rakuten Investment Management, Inc. (Code: 14584)

Rakuten Investment Management, Inc. Rakuten Group’s corporate mission is to empower people and society through the internet. Rakuten Investment Management, Inc., an asset management arm of Rakuten Group, also aims to “empower” investors, especially individual investors, by providing them with intelligently-selected, innovative and cost-efficient investment products to be chosen in a well-informed manner under the technological innovation and deregulation. In other words, our mission is to offer investors, in form of Investment Trusts, with 1.highly sophisticated but easy-to-understand investment products to generate long-term investment profit or 2.investment tools to meet variety of investors’ demand, through the employment of cutting-edge financial technology and infrastructure.
We believe that there is still much room to “empower” individual investors in Japanese asset management industry. We will continue to enhance our capabilities and provide various investment solutions, from individual investors’ perspective, to “empower” them in more extensive and robust way.

World Gold Trust Services, LLC (Code: 13264)

World Gold Trust Services, LLC World Gold Trust Services, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of the World Gold Council and the Sponsor of the SPDR® Gold Trust. The World Gold Council is the market development organization for the gold industry. Working within the investment, jewelry and technology sectors, as well as engaging in government affairs, its purpose is to provide industry leadership, whilst stimulating and sustaining demand for gold. Based in the UK, with operations in India, the Far East, Turkey, Europe and the USA, the World Gold Council is an association whose members include the world's leading and most forward thinking gold mining companies.

Global X Japan Co. Ltd. (Code: 25644)

Global X Japan Global X Japan Co. Ltd. was established in September 2019 as a joint venture between Global X Management Company, Inc. ("Global X"), Daiwa Securities Group Inc. and Daiwa Asset Management Co. Ltd.
Global X is an asset management company specializing in ETFs established in 2008, based in New York, U.S.A., and its founding motto is "to provide solutions that no one has ever provided". The logo is based on "Exploration". At the same time, it expresses the compass, and it contains the idea that we would like to help to set the course for our customers. In 2010, we established the company's first thematic ETF. Since then, we have discovered themes that are expected to grow over the long term and provided them.
Global X Japan will leverage the expertise of Global X to provide a variety of opportunities for investors both in Japan and abroad.