For many years I have had the great pleasure of working closely with Nomura Research Institute’s head of research, Sadayuki Horie.  Taking turns between Tokyo and New York, Horie’s insights into the Japan asset management industry have helped us shape our views on this important market.

Taking our informal exchanges to a new and more formal level, last month we published a joint whitepaper on “Fund Distribution in Asia”.

The paper provides an overview of asset management in Asia over the last decade with country, manager and product case studies.  It is available both in English and Japanese and a few weeks ago Horie-san, Sakura Pineda, Jag Alexeyev, and I presented the key findings in a webcast to some 120 financial services firms around the world.

You can find a shorter summary of the hour long webcast in the video below. For a copy of the white paper, please contact Sakura-san (pineda@nria.com) or my assistant Brittany Keppel (bkeppel@sionline.com).

Horie-san is at the Fund Forum Asia in Hong Kong this week, and tomorrow will present this brand new research in the afternoon stream of the main conference, “Pinpointing Business & Investment Opportunities in Asian Markets“.  If you are in Hong Kong, don’t miss it.