The election of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and nomination of new Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda have drawn investor focus back to Japan. Coupled with a weakening Yen, conditions are more favourable for Japanese equities than they have been for some time. <\/p>\n
The fund, managed entirely through a bottom-up approach, has seen inflows from a variety of European and Asian investors. The fund has outperformed the TOPIX by 1.18% annualised since its inception in August 2009, whilst the underlying strategy, managed by the same team has outperformed TOPIX by 6.13% on an annualised basis since its inception in 2000.*<\/p>\n
As one of the leading Asian-based managers, Nomura enjoys a good reputation for its capabilities in this area.<\/p>\n
Nomura Asset Management U.K. Ltd. today announced that it has seen strong inflows into its Japan Strategic Value Fund, enabling it to surpass $1 billion of AUM and become one of the biggest funds in the sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":28130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1470],"tags":[1663,1809,1655,1651,1437,2007,1787],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Notes:
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1) The Nomura Funds Ireland plc Japan Strategic Value Fund was launched on 26th August 2009 (ISIN: IE00B3VTL690, Bloomberg: NOMIRL6 ID)
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2) The fund management team is based in Tokyo and manages $3.1bn in total
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3) The inception date of the strategy was 25th July 2000
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4) The fund offers a variety of share classes (Yen, GBP and US$), including hedged share classes
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5) Nomura Asset Management manages some $280bn of AUM overall (as at 31 December 2012)<\/quote><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"