Koichi Kinoshita

SMDAM aims to produce stable returns in the medium and long term by actively incorporating new investment methodologies and by responding to ever-changing market environments. The firm focuses on various equity strategies with a focus on Asia.

SMAM employs active and passive strategies across asset classes and a bottom-up investment approach, aiming to capture inefficiencies in capital markets. Their geographic focus is on Japan, Asia-Pacific and China. They perform in-depth research supplemented by a global network of contacts, which they integrate using a proprietary platform. Investment decisions originate from teams of investment managers. Each of SMAM’s products has a clearly defined investment style and process, with a common emphasis on research, a team approach and company-level quality control, to which teams of research analysts, specialized in sectors and/or styles, contribute. For Japanese equity Investments, they employ GARP, growth, value, small-mid and quantitative investment styles. For fixed-income, they utilize their Japan research capabilities across full active, duration neutral and corporate bond portfolios.