Toshiyuki Fukushima

Japan Post Co. Ltd. provides postal, banking counter, insurance counter operations, sales of documentary stamps, logistics, real estate and others. Its services include international mail and express mail, standard mail, parcels, domestic mail and postcard distribution. The firm also provides property and casualty insurance business, domestic and international logistics, real estate brokerage and merchandise sales. The company was founded on October 1, 2007 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Co., Ltd. (SMDAM) is the majority owned asset management subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (TYO: 8316) in Japan. The firm was founded as Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management (SMAM) in 2002 from a merger of the five corporations: Mitsui Life Global Asset Management, Sakura Investment Management, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Asset Management, Sumisei Global Investment Trust Management, and Sumitomo Life Investment. In 2019, SMAM and Daiwa SB Investments Ltd. merged to begin a new chapter as Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management. Headquartered in Tokyo, SMDAM provides discretionary portfolio management services to institutional clients, that primarily consists of governmental pension funds, private corporate pension funds and related trusts.