2025

Personnel Changes

Nikko Asset Management Discloses its Voting Results for 2024/25 Shareholder Meetings

At the shareholder meetings of 2,074 Japanese companies in which Nikko Asset Management Co., Ltd. held voting rights between July 2024 and June 2025, the firm exercised proxy voting rights regarding 19,886 company-generated proposals and 394 shareholder proposals for a total of 20,280 proposals.

Personnel Changes

Establishment of Mission, Principles and Values

Nikko Asset Management Co., Ltd. announces the establishment of its Mission Statement: “Shaping a brighter future with our stakeholders though progressive investment solutions.” This embodies the firm’s purpose. To support the Mission, as displayed below, the firm also defined a set of Principles, which guide organisational philosophy and operations, and a set of Values, which articulate individual employee behaviours.

Nikko Asset Management and Chocolate Finance Enter into Strategic Partnership

Nikko Asset Management (Nikko Asset Management Co., Ltd. together with all of its subsidiaries), one of Asia’s largest asset managers with US$234.8 billion in assets under management, has entered into a strategic partnership on 24 July with Singapore based “neobank” Chocolate Pte. Ltd., the operator of fintech group “Chocolate Finance”.

Personnel Changes

Nikko AM Launches Listed Index Fund Nikkei 225 High Dividend Yield Stock 50

Nikko Asset Management Co., Ltd. (Nikko AM) today announces it is scheduled to launch the new exchange traded fund (ETF) “Listed Index Fund Nikkei 225 High Dividend Yield Stock 50” on 23 July, and list it on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on 24 July.

Personnel Changes

Change in Directors

Nikko AM Wins Seven Awards from The Asset

Nikko Asset Management Co., Ltd. (Nikko AM) was chosen as the winner in seven categories of The Asset Triple A Sustainable Investing Awards for Institutional Investor, ETF, and Asset Servicing Providers 2025. The wins, announced on 1 May, include Asset Management Company of the Year – Asia, and Asset Management Company of the Year – Japan, along with Equity Fund Manager of the Year – Japan and ESG Asset Management Company of the Year – Japan. The seven wins include Best ETF Provider in three categories: Asia, Japan and Singapore. The Asset, an influential industry publication about the asset management industry in Asia, selected the winners for each category looking at the period of 1 January to 31 December 2024 across all Asia-Pacific markets, including the Middle East.