Nomura Asset Management’s Strategy Awarded the Top Award inthe Japanese Equity at the HFM Asian Performance Awards 2022
Tokyo, January 26, 2023—Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd. (NAM), the core company within
the Investment Management Division of Nomura Group, announced that NAM’s “Nomura Dual
Alpha Strategy” won the top award in the Japanese Equity category at the HFM Asian PerformanceAwards 2022.
Award Category

Strategy NameJapanese Equity

Nomura Japanese Equity Market Neutral - Dual Alpha Strategy

The Award recognizes excellence within the Asian hedge fund industry. Winners are determinedbased on a combination of Sharpe ratios and absolute returns.
“Nomura Dual Alpha Strategy” is a market-neutral strategy focusing on market inefficiencies within
Japanese equities. We believe Japanese equities offer attractive opportunities to generate alpha,as the Portfolio Manager seeks to long undervalued stocks and short sell overvalued stocks basedon fundamental research. With one of the largest research teams and investment platforms basedin Tokyo, NAM draw on the collective power of our experts to identify attractive investment
opportunities in Japan.
NAM will continue striving to improve investment performance and build competitive products andservices across regions and markets, with the aim of becoming the asset manager of choice forclients around the world.
About the HFM Asian Performance Awards 2022
From 2004 to 2020, the HFM Asia Hedge Awards and the Eurekahedge Asian Hedge Fund Awards ran
separately. The two awards were merged and are now held as the "with.Intelligence HFM Asian PerformanceAwards".
Please visit the website below for more detail about HFM Asian Performance Awards 2022.
https://awards.withintelligence.com/hfmasianperformanceawards2022/en/page/homeends
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