Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild Europe and Nikko Cordial Securities Form Alliance inJapanese Private Banking Business
Under this alliance, Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild Europe (BPERE) and Nikko
Cordial Securities (NCS) agree to provide full-fledged private banking services to Japanesehigh net worth individuals. This agreement is based on Banque Privée Edmond deRothschild Europe’s decision that the Japanese high net worth business is extremely
promising and Nikko Cordial Securities would be the most suitable partner, as a result of theirmarket survey and experience of working together with Nikko Cordial Securities in offeringsome of their high net worth services in Japan.
Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild Europe and Nikko Cordial Securities, together, will
provide optimal asset management solutions to Japanese high net worth individuals,
founded on “tradition” and “innovation.” Specifically, Nikko Cordial Securities will distribute
funds that employ the asset management approach and are globally offered by BanquePrivée Edmond de Rothschild Europe in the Japanese high end market. Further, clients will
have access to the vast expertise possessed by the Rothschild family through the privatebanking division as “family office service.”
Both parties will continue to build on this alliance from various angles so as to provide
diversified medium-to-long-term private banking services to Japanese high end clients.
With regards to the company’s full-scale entry into the Japanese market, Baron Benjamin deRothschild, Chairman of the Board of Directors, of Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild
Europe comments as follows:“We are extremely delighted to be able to make this full-fledged entry into the highly
promising Japanese high net worth market with Nikko Cordial Securities as a partner.
Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild Europe has worked with Nikko Cordial Securities invarious areas since 2003. On a personal level, President Arimura and I share the samebusiness philosophy and views on life and have built a relationship of trust as friends. I am
confident that the services we will provide based on this mutual trust will be accepted inJapan, in the same way as they are being appreciated throughout the world.”

Meanwhile, Junichi Arimura, President and CEO of Nikko Cordial Securities, stated asfollows:“Nikko Cordial Securities is aggressively expanding its infrastructure in order to better copewith diversifying client needs. Through our partnership with Banque Privée Edmond deRothschild Europe, which boasts a remarkable track record in the high net worth businessextending over 250 years, I expect Nikko Cordial Securities’s private banking services tomake great strides, becoming the most innovative in Japan.”
The Geneva-based LCF Rothschild Group is present in most of the world’s financial centersthrough 35 offices in over 15 countries. In addition to its banking activities, the LCF
Rothschild Group has continued the long standing family tradition of fine wine making.
Active in Luxembourg for over 30 years, Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild Europe acts
as the group’s european competence center for international wealth management. BanquePrivée Edmond de Rothschild Europe offers its clients asset management, fundadministration, financial engineering and estate planning services with a particular emphasis
on global wealth management services for high net worth families. Its family office activities
embody the essence of Rothschild’s longstanding tradition of family wealth preservation.
Private Banking Division of Nikko Cordial Securities
Nikko Private Bank offers comprehensive services to Japanese high net worth clients, mainly
owners of public company. Nikko Private Bank is co-working with other Nikko Cordial Group
companies and has 5 domestic bases in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Kyoto, and Fukuoka.