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Overview of CIO Services
CIO*Services involves using Nomura’s highly value added advisory models with the goal of “Extending our asset management services usually provided for institutional investors such as public and corporate pension funds to retail investors”.
NFRC plays a key role in providing services for ①SAA (Strategic Asset Allocation), ②TAA (Tactical Asset Allocation), and ③Fund Selection.
*CIO: Chief Investment Office
Mid-to-long term Asset Allocation ~SAA (Strategic Asset Allocation) ~
We build asset allocation with high investment efficiency over a five year time horizon. The features of our CIO Services are ①improvement of investment efficiency by diversifying in broad asset classes, ②benefit from global growth emphasizing on allocation for overseas, and ③income gain oriented focusing on credit investment. SAA defines eleven asset classes and diversifies into these various asset classes.
Tactical Asset Allocation ~TAA~
We provide a view of overweighing / underweighting on each asset class for the next six to twelve months. Deviating from SAA intentionally, we aim to gain any excess return.
Gathering the investment view on each asset class, we provide our insight and content to CIO Monthly and CIO NEWS, which Nomura Securities publishes.
Fund Selection
Based on the result of our unique and original fund evaluation, we select qualified funds with the highest expectation of excess return for each asset class, and provide the information on how to combine these funds.

Fund Evaluation Services
Pursuit to Measure Funds’ Future Prospect Unstinted Efforts to Access Their True Reliabilities, not Reflected in Past Performance.

Investment Advisory Services
With a great deal of experience, NFRC boasts Japan’s top class asset under advisory. A visionary propositions solve various needs of asset management.

Investment Consulting Services
Highly sophisticated investment consulting services with deep knowledge and considerable experience for institutional investors such as public and private pension fund.