GAM Investments has secured a licence from Japan’s Financial Services Agency to offer discretionary investment management as well as investment advisory and agency services in the country.
The Zurich-based firm, which has a Tokyo office since 1997, already has a securities licence that enables it to market its funds in the country.
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The new licence will allow the firm to work with Japanese institutional investors, including pension funds, and oversee their assets through a discretionary investment management scheme.
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GAM Japan representative director and president Shizu Kishimoto said: “Being granted this licence by the regulator is an important milestone for us. We look forward to engaging directly with institutions, including pension funds, about our innovative and differentiated investment offering.
“We believe that we can add substantial value to institutional investors through our specialist strategies in fixed income, high active share equity and systematic solutions.”
Overall, GAM managed CHF162.3bn in assets for institutions, financial intermediaries and private investors at the end of March 2018. The group, established in 1983, has operations in 13 countries and a workforce of over 900.
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