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Nikko Asset Management Recognised as Best Asia Pacific Equity ETF Manager
Nikko Asset Management today announces that it has been voted the Best Asia Pacific Equity ETF Manager for the seventh time in eight years in a survey conducted by ETF Express, the digital news publisher serving institutional investors and investment advisers.
March 2018
NZ trade partners’ economies brought into view at Summit
The strengths and vulnerabilities of New Zealand’s main trading partners’ economies have been a key focus during two investment conferences held in Auckland and Wellington last week. Nikko AM NZ’s Investment Summit was attended by more than 160 financial services professionals and investors.
Nikko Asset Management named Morningstar 2018 NZ Fund Manager of the Year
Nikko Asset Management New Zealand's expertise as a fund manager has been recognised, with the firm taking the top hornour at the 2018 Morningstar Awards.
Nikko Asset Management Appoints Head of Marketing - International
Nikko Asset Management today announces that Head of Marketing, Asia ex-Japan & The Americas Joyce Koh is as of 1 March 2018 appointed Head of Marketing - International. Based in Singapore, in this newly created role she continues to report to Tokyo-based Joint Global Head of Product & Marketing, and Head of Marketing and Communications, Stefanie Drews, and her scope expands to include responsibility for all aspects of the Firm’s marketing worldwide, ex-Japan.
February 2018
Nikko AM Recognised in Three Categories in Asia Asset Management’s 2018 Best of the Best Awards
Nikko Asset Management has been recognised across three categories in Asia Asset Management’s 2018 Best of the Best Awards. Asia Asset Management, The Journal of Investments and Pensions, has acknowledged Nikko AM in Japan as Best Institutional House and ETF Manager of the Year, both for the second year running, and for the first time as Asia Region ETF Manager of the Year. This is the fifth consecutive year for Nikko AM to be honored by Asia Asset Management.
December 2017
Nikko Asset Management Global Shares Fund Proves Value of New Zealand Launch
Three months on from its launch into the New Zealand market, Nikko Asset Management's Global Shares Fund is steadily growing in value.
November 2017
Nikko Asset Management and Japan for UNHCR Partner to Support Refugee Children
Nikko Asset Management ("Nikko AM") today announces a partnership with Japan for UNHCR, a national partner of UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency), whereby Nikko AM globally supports funding towards school supplies and textbooks, access to schools, and extracurricular and classroom facilities through the UNHCR Educate A Child (EAC) programme.
Nikko Asset Management Announces Senior Appointments
Nikko Asset Management today announces that Nikko Asset Management Europe Ltd Chairman John Howland-Jackson is as of 1 January 2018 additionally appointed EMEA CEO (subject to Financial Conduct Authority approval).
August 2017
Nikko Asset Management Enhances Governance, with Full Disclosure of its Voting Results
Nikko Asset Management today announces its commitment to disclose the results of individual voting in the companies in which it invests at shareholder meetings, in accordance with the Principles for Responsible Institutional Investors set forth in Japan’s Stewardship Code.
Nikko Asset Management Adds Depth to Global Equity Team
Nikko Asset Management (“Nikko AM”) has appointed Jeremy Hall as Investment Director – Global Equity. In this role, he will be a portfolio manager within the Nikko AM Global Equity team based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Nikko Asset Management and ARK Invest Partner for Disruptive Innovation Investment Solutions
Nikko Asset Management today announces that it is enhancing its disruptive innovation focused investment solutions by acquiring a minority stake in ARK Investment Management LLC (“ARK”). In this partnership Nikko AM will obtain exclusivity in select Asian geographies to offer ARK products and investment strategies and its investment team intends to continue working closely with ARK’s disruptive innovation focused analysts.
June 2017
Nikko Asset Management Maintains Overweight Stance on Global Equities
Nikko Asset Management’s (“Nikko AM”) Global Investment Committee (GIC) maintains its bullish stance on global equities despite geopolitical uncertainty in its latest House View, due to increasing confidence in economic growth amongst consumers and corporations in much of the developed world.
May 2017
Nikko Asset Management NZ named Equity Fund Manager of the Year
The strength and performance of Nikko Asset Management NZ’s domestic equity team has been recognised by New Zealand’s finance industry. At the Institute of Finance Professionals (INFINZ) Awards, at Auckland's Langham Hotel last night, Nikko AM NZ was awarded the Chapman Tripp award for “Fund Manager of the Year – Equities”.
April 2017
Nikko Asset Management recognised as Japan's Fund House of the Year
AsianInvestor has recognised Nikko Asset Management (Nikko AM) as Japan's 2017 Fund House of the Year for generating strong returns in Japan's negative interest rate environment. This is the sixth time in seven years that the firm has won the award*. Nikko AM's actively managed Japanese equity strategies demonstrated a record of investment excellence that drove growth in assets under management (AUM) throughout 2016.
December 2016
Nikko Asset Management Upgrades View on Global Equities to Overweight, Bullish on the U.S. Dollar
Nikko Asset Management’s Global Investment Committee has lifted its view on global equities to overweight and is bullish on the U.S. dollar in its latest house view, due to stronger prospects for the global economy with the election of Donald Trump as U.S. President and expectations of a hawkish monetary policy by the U.S. Federal Reserve.
November 2016
Nikko Asset Management NZ wins FundSource Fixed Interest Manager of the Year
Nikko Asset Management New Zealand has been recognised for outstanding investment performance at the 2016 FundSource Awards, winning Fixed Interest Manager of the Year at the event held in Auckland last week.
October 2016
Nikko Asset Management Bullish on Japan and Developed Asia-Pacific Equities
Nikko Asset Management's Global Investment Committee is positive on Japanese and developed Asia-Pacific equities over the next six months, but maintains a slightly underweight stance on global equities amid continued sluggish global growth.
June 2016
Nikko Asset Management’s Economic Forecast Moderately Shifts Down Following BREXIT 
Despite the UK’s decision to leave the European Union, the Global Investment Committee has noted that it does not think economies or risk markets will crash, but added that it is hard to be enthusiastic about the prospects for the post-BREXIT world over the next few quarters.
May 2016
"Nikko Asset Management New Zealand’s assets under management (AUM) now exceeds NZ$5 billion, up from $4 billion in December 2014, an increase of 25 percent. One area of growth in its AUM has been retail investment, which now tops $1 billion, up from just over $500 million as at December 2014."
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"Nikko Asset Management is launching an ETF that tracks a Japanese equity index consisting of firms that take proactive and efficient measures with their investment in capital expenditure and human capital. The ETF will be launched on May 24 and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on May 25."
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