Toru Kitani

Sompo AM is an active, value-oriented manager which performs fundamental research to invest in Japanese and foreign equity, focusing on Asia. They follow a valuation-based investment approach that seeks to identify discrepancies between the intrinsic value of companies and their market price. The firm believes that market prices will adjust over the long-term to reflect intrinsic value. Their investment process combines top-down and bottom-up approaches and utilizes their proprietary 4-stage dividend discount model to calculate intrinsic value. Japanese equity portfolios are benchmarked against the TOPIX index and a yield curve model is used for fixed-income investments.

Provides asset management services

YED invests in early- and expansion-stages businesses in Asia, Europe and the US, across sectors including ICT, electronics devices and life sciences. Their investment strategy focuses on growing companies across expansion stages and with IPO and M&A potential. The firm invests in companies based on distinctive technology, favoring start-up and early-stage businesses. YED targets emerging firms with cutting edge technology in the medical device and biotechnology area, as well as in the IT sector. They focus on Japan, the US, Taiwan and Europe and favor businesses with the potential to penetrate global markets. The firm's preferred type of financing includes direct equity, convertible bonds and warrants.