Irene Rika Shimada

JPMorgan Asset Management (Japan) Ltd. (JPMorgan AM Japan) is the wholly-owned Japanese asset management subsidiary of JPMorgan Asset Management (Asia), Inc., ultimately held by JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) in the US. The firm was founded in 1990 and formerly known as JPMorgan Fleming Asset Management (Japan). Headquartered in Tokyo, JPMorgan AM Japan provides financial advisory and investment management services to individual investors, government entities and institutions including pension funds.

BofA Securities Japan Co., Ltd. (BofA Securities Japan) is the wholly-owned Japanese brokerage subsidiary of Merrill Lynch International, Inc., which is ultimately owned by Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). Founded in 1998, the firm was formerly known as Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co., Ltd. (MLJS) and changed their name to BofA Securities Co., Ltd. in line with grobal re-branding from BofA Merrill Lynch to BofA in 2020. They subsequently became BofA Securities Japan Co., Ltd. Headquartered in Tokyo, BofA Securities Japan provides stock and bond trading, capital markets, investment banking and other advisory services to corporate clients, financial institutions and government agencies.