Naruhisa Nakagawa

Goldman Sachs Asset Management Co. Ltd. (Japan) (GSAM-Japan) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Goldman Sachs Asset Management International Holdings LLC, ultimately held by The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) in the US. The firm was founded in 1996 as Goldman Sachs Investment Trust and was renamed into Goldman Sachs Asset Management Co., Ltd. when the Goldman Sachs’ investment trust management and investment advisory companies merged in 2002. Headquartered in Tokyo, GSAM-Japan manages a range of mutual funds for clients such as pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, central banks, insurance companies, financial institutions, foundations, individual investors, and high net-worth individuals.

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.

GCI Capital Co., Ltd. operates as a holding company which provides proprietary investment services. It offers online foreign currency margin trading services to retail investors, systems development, financial investment services, opportunities among financial technology, information technology and education. The company was founded on June 1, 2005 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.