Koki Kazuma

Sompo Asset Management Co., Ltd. (Sompo AM) is the wholly-owned asset management subsidiary of Sompo Holdings, Inc. (TYO: 8630) in Japan. Founded in 1986, the firm merged with Zest Asset Management in 2010 and was rebranded as Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Asset Management Co., Ltd. They became Sompo Asset Management Co., Ltd. in 2020. Headquartered in Tokyo, Sompo AM provides advisory and discretionary asset management services for institutional investors and overseas asset management companies.

TCW Asset Management Co. LLC (TCW) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded in 1992 and is wholly-owned by The TCW Group, Inc. In 2013, TCW management and private investment funds affiliated with The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) acquired TCW Group from Société Générale. TCW provides investment management and advice for a wide array of investment strategies for institutional and individual investors through investment advisory accounts, private open- and closed-end commingled investment funds and structured investment vehicles such as collateralized debt obligations.

Sompo Japan Insurance, Inc. provides non-life insurances, including voluntary automobile, fire, marine, personal accident and compulsory automobile liability insurance. The company operates in two business segments, the non-life Insurance segment which is engaged in the non-life insurance business, as well as financial businesses and the life insurance segment which provides life insurance services. Sompo Japan was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.