As one of the leading Japanese-native financial professionals, our CEO, Kenji Sugiyama founded BUSHIDO Asset Management Co., Ltd., a Japan-based independent asset management company, with strong desire to contribute to the Japanese market and economy by bridging investors and Japanese listed companies. Our value propositions to be providing investment opportunities for stable & constant absolute returns to the investors, through our long established experiences in the Japanese financial industries.

We also would like to educate and appeal to investors about an attractive equity long-short/market neutral strategy. We strongly believe that there should be more promising investment opportunities in the Japanese equity markets if we conduct solid bottom-up fundamental approaches to the universe and make more appropriate investment decisions throughout the market cycles. Therefore, we desire that we can be of some help to further activate the Japanese markets by attracting more investors to our unique capabilities to capture such investment opportunities with some downside protections/capital preservations.

On the other hand, in order to convey any opinions from the investors’ side while having better understandings about listed companies’ business strategies, visions, and their decisions, we are conducting hundreds of face-to-face meetings and interviews with them every year. Comparing to the other developed countries, Japanese listed companies seem to have less conversations with institutional investors. We desire to go for proposing some value improvements of the companies through constructive dialogues with them here in Japan.

Furthermore, we are convinced that making profits by ourselves and expanding our team with more talented employees should be regarded as one of the ways to contribute to Japanese economy in long term, and we wish the Japanese asset management industry will have more dynamism & energy with more independent asset managers like us.