History

Company History

• 1996

  As the investment analysis section of Nomura Securities' Investment Trust Division, we have analyzed and evaluated funds since 1996 in order to manage the quality of funds handled by Nomura Securities. (June)

• 1997
  • Asian Financial Crisis
• 1998
  • Over-the-counter sales of trust funds by banks started (December~)
  • Financial Big Bang expanded in Japan
• 1999
  • The Euro currency was launched.
• 2000
  • “Dot-com bubble” collapsed

  Nomura Funds Research and Technologies founded (Nomura Securities 51%, Nomura Research Institute 49%) (June)

  Registered as an investment adviser with the Director of Kanto Local Finance Bureau, Registration No. 961 (July)

• 2001

  Investment Advisory Business started (February)

  Licensed for discretionary investment business with the Prime Minister, License No. 12 (March)

  Investment Discretion Business started (July)
  Investment Discretion Duties of Private Equity started (July)

  Started managing balanced-type funds of funds (August)
  Began evaluating funds for defined-contribution(DC) pension programs (August)

  • Definite Contribution (DC) Pension Management Method started in Japan (October~)

  Began managing funds of funds for defined-contribution pension programs (November)

• 2005
  • Over-the-counter Sale of Investment Trust at Post Offices started (October)
• 2006

  NFR&T to be 100% subsidiary of Nomura Holdings (November)

• 2007

  Inauguration of London Branch (March)

  • Subprime mortgage problems occurred

  Registered as a financial instruments firm with the Director of Kanto Local Finance Bureau, Registration No.451 (September)

• 2008

  Split-off of the private equity section to Private Equity Fund Research and Investments Co., Ltd. (PEFRI →NPEC) (February)
  (Private Equity Funds Research and Investments Co., Ltd. Established by Nomura Holdings and others in October 2007)

  • The financial crisis

  Launched discretionary investment management business for institutional investors (December)

• 2010
  • The European Sovereign Debt Crisis
• 2013

  Acquisition of NFR&TA as a subsidiary (January)

• 2014
  • Nippon Individual Savings Account(NISA) introduced (January~)
• 2015

  Investment Discretion Business for Institutional investors to be adopted by Nomura Asset Management (July)

  Investment Discretion Business for Retail investors to be adopted by Nomura Asset Management (specialized only in Investment Advisory Services and Fund Evaluation Services ) (October)

  Integrated a private equity research team of NPEC(Nomura Private Equity Capital Co., Ltd.) (December)

• 2016
  • Junior NISA method started (April~)
• 2017
  • Individual-type Defined Contribution Plan (iDeCo) started (January~)
  • FSA of Japan “Principle of Customer-Oriented Business Conduct” published (March)
• 2018
  • The Monthly-Investment Type NISA to be introduced (January~)
• 2021

  Incorporated Fiduciary Management Department of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. with Nomura Fund Research and Technologies (NFR&T) (December)

  Changed our corporate name to Nomura Fiduciary Research & Consulting (December)