Nikko Asset Management and ARK Invest Partner for Disruptive Innovation Investment Solutions
2017年8月7日 - 04:36PM
JCN Newswire
Nikko Asset Management ("Nikko AM") 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 to
offer ARK products and investment strategies in Japan and the Asia
Pacific while its investment team intends to continue working
closely with ARK's disruptive innovation focused analysts.
ARK has served as a sub advisor to Nikko AM's Global Fintech Equity
Fund, launched in Japan in December 2016 with total assets of over
JPY 75 billion as of July 2017. The now enhanced partnership is a
natural progression from that successful start.
"We are extremely excited to welcome ARK to the Nikko AM family.
The established expertise of our in-house investment team combined
with ARK's strategies focused on disruptive technology and
innovation enable progressive solutions for our clients. Our Global
Fintech Equity Fund is an example of the success we have already
achieved together, and we are confident of more to come with this
deepening of the connection," said Nikko Asset Management President
& CEO Takumi Shibata.
ARK is a leading US-based investment manager that utilizes an open
research ecosystem to develop insights into disruptive innovation.
Its analysts are organized by disruptive innovation themes that
span sectors, geographies, and market capitalizations. ARK derives
alpha by investing in leaders, enablers, and beneficiaries of
disruptive technologies, with low overlap to broad-market indices.
The firm has launched five ETFs, including four active ETFs,
investing in themes such as Deep Learning and
Mobility-as-a-Service. In addition, ARK has established an
investment advisory service for institutional clients which
utilizes ARK's innovative strategies to diversify portfolios.
"We are honored and delighted that Nikko AM has cemented our
partnership with an ownership interest in ARK," said ARK CEO &
Chief Investment Officer Catherine D. Wood. "Nikko AM's appetite
for innovation focused investment solutions is well aligned with
ARK's conviction that innovation is key to growth. An entirely new
market of investors will benefit now from Nikko AM's ability to
deliver disruptive innovation, which is transforming both
industries and the global economy, through ARK's investment
strategies."
With Nikko AM's investment, Catherine D. Wood, ARK's founder and
CEO, continues to own a majority stake in ARK, and Resolute
Investment Managers, Inc., ARK's strategic partner in the US,
remains a minority shareholder in ARK.
About Nikko Asset Management
With US$182.7 billion (20.36 trillion yen)* under management, Nikko
Asset Management is one of Asia's largest asset managers, providing
high-conviction, active fund management across a range of Equity,
Fixed Income, Multi-Asset and Alternative strategies. In addition,
its complementary range of passive strategies covers more than 20
indices and includes some of Asia's largest exchange-traded funds
(ETFs).
Headquartered in Asia since 1959, the firm represents more than
200** investment professionals and over 30 nationalities across 11
countries. More than 300 banks, brokers, financial advisors and
life insurance companies around the world distribute the company's
products.
The investment teams benefit from a unique global perspective
complemented by the firm's historic Asian DNA, striving to deliver
consistent excellence in performance. The firm also prides itself
on its progressive solution-driven approach, which has led to many
innovative funds launched for its clients.
For more information about Nikko Asset Management and to access its
investment insights, please visit the firm's homepage.
http://en.nikkoam.com/
* Consolidated assets under management and sub-advisory of Nikko
Asset Management and its subsidiaries as of March 31, 2017.
** As of March 31, 2017, including employees of Nikko Asset
Management and its subsidiaries.
About ARK Investment Management LLC
Headquartered in New York City, ARK Investment Management LLC is a
federally registered investment adviser and privately held
investment firm, specializing in thematic investing in disruptive
innovation. The firm is rooted in over 40 years of experience in
identifying and investing in disruptive innovations that are
changing the way the world works and delivering outsized growth as
industries transform. Through its open research process, ARK
identifies companies that it believes are leading and benefiting
from cross-sector innovations such as robotics, 3D printing, big
data, machine learning, blockchain technology, cloud computing,
energy storage, and DNA sequencing. ARK's investment strategies
include: Industrial Innovation, Next Generation Internet, Genomic
Revolution, Fintech Innovations, 3D Printing, Israel Innovative
Technologies, and the overall ARK Disruptive Innovation
Strategy.
For additional information regarding ARK's strategies, please visit
www.ark-invest.com.
Source: Nikko Asset Management Co., Ltd.
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