Consulting Services Help Customers Navigate Today's Numerous Options for Asset Management

The environment surrounding the investment trust business has undergone significant changes in recent years. Stocks and bonds of emerging nations, represented by the fast-growing economies of China, India, and Brazil, are increasingly popular as new investment targets. In addition, a growing awareness of the importance of alternative investments has focused greater interest on hedge fund investments.

Today, we are working to put in place a structure capable of responding to these changes, focusing on businesses related to publicly offered investment trusts and privately placed investment trusts. For publicly offered investment trusts, we are enlarging our lineup of funds offered, while also working to enhance our follow-up system by enabling our headquarters and our branch offices nationwide to work closely together. For privately offered investment trusts, to enable us to more closely meet the individual investment needs of our customers, we are strengthening our ties with our overseas offices and subsidiaries to carefully select the most promising funds, both internal and external, for our valuable customers.
In business insurance, we are working to provide a lineup of products that will be useful in preparing business indemnity and tax measures, and to put in place a system that will enable us to respond to a wide variety of advising needs.