Welcome to Nikko-Desjardins Asset Management; we serve both individuals and institutions in their quest for anything from better returns on existing capital to accelerated wealth/capital accumulation. We are staunchly independent and we take great pride in the fact that we neither solicit nor accept commissions or emoluments in return for choosing or recommending the products of one provider over
those of another to our clients. We have striven to ensure that our clients have access to all markets, be they small, mid or large-cap equities, commodity, fixed income or “exotics”. Though we are based in Tokyo, Japan, we act as a conduit to global markets for local clients who, just a mere 5 or 10 years ago, would have found certain exchanges frustratingly closed to them. Nevertheless, we never forget the importance of our roots. We use these underpinnings to our advantage by providing unique and often exclusive Asian investment opportunities to discerning clients in the advanced markets of the West. We have forged close-knit relationships with some of the most influential banks, brokers and entrepreneurs in the region in order to gain access to the latest and most promising initial public offerings within technology, life sciences, communications and energy. Our aim is to increase the audience from which innovative companies can raise capital while giving investors access to the dynamic upside potential that the large investment banks, broker-dealers and underwriters in the West often siphon off for themselves before IPOs are even launched. Such profiteering at the expense of the small investor is anathema to Nikko-Desjardins Asset Management.