One of our primary roles is to tackle medical welfare, food resources and other social challenges around the world through our core financial business. We contribute to sustainable development by providing funds and advisory services to unlisted companies, creating and marketing socially responsible investment (SRI) funds, engaging in research, holding conferences, and otherwise leveraging Nomura Group's comprehensive capabilities.
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Japan's health and nursing care markets should grow in the years ahead as the population ages.
In the meantime it is critical that we help support the deteriorating financial positions of medical institutions and nursing service providers.
We are helping tackle the challenges by proposing sustainable investment-based financial models for businesses in these fields, notably through Nomura Healthcare Co., Ltd. Its achievements include real estate securitizations for the Verde Corporation nursing home in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture and for the nursing homes of Green Hospital Supply, Inc., based in Suita, Osaka.
Such securitizations can shield operators from the risks of higher interest rates, help them standardize fixed costs to improve their financial positions, enhance their creditworthiness and make themselves more attractive to investors.
Securitization can also help nursing homes and other medical institutions overcome chronic funding shortfalls.
We will continue to leverage Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.'s nationwide branch office network and draw on our experience and expertise in capital procurement, securitization, and privatization to serve public and private medical institutions and nursing care providers.
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In June 2008 Nomura Securities Co., Ltd (NSC) and the Hyakugo Bank, Ltd., jointly established the business start-up innovation project research office at Mie University. The collaboration among the three institutions aims to help eliminate the critical global food problems which are expected to occur in the 21st Century. |
Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. and Nomura Research & Advisory Co., Ltd. (NR&A) analyze industries with medium- to long-term potential. They hold conferences to present their findings to investors and other parties and thus help resolve global social problems.
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NR&A analyzes and invests in unlisted companies, and has focused in recent years on the environmental and renewable energy sectors. At a conference at the Nihonbashi head office in June 2008, NR&A raised awareness of these sectors in the capital markets by outlining the latest trends to investors and corporate quests. |
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This well-established event was held at the Otemachi Sankei Plaza in Tokyo in November 2008. A panel comprising a chief researcher from NR&A, an alliance official from a leading pharmaceuticals company, and the head of an alliance support firm discussed the issue of alliances for an audience of around 360 bioindustry representatives and venture capitalists. |
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This inaugural conference at the Nihonbashi head office in December 2008 disseminated domestic and international agribusiness information amid growing concerns in Japan about global food inflation and the nation's declining self-sufficiency rate. An analyst from NR&A outlined agribusiness prospects and profiled progress at several companies and organizations. The event attracted more than 320 attendees from diverse fields, including people from agribusiness, food processors and distributors, restaurant chains, banks, institutional investors, venture capitalists, universities, central government agencies and municipalities, and the media. |
The role of responsible and sustainable investing has moved sharply into focus after issues such as credit crisis and global warming.
In May 2009, Nomura has entered into a joint venture with ECPI, the European leader in sustainable advisory services. The aim of the joint venture is to launch a variety of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) index tracking products across Europe and Asia.
Through providing ESG-linked products, we offer various opportunities to institutional and retail investors as well as striving to ensure world's sustainable growth.
We are committed to socially responsible investment themes and published its flagship report "The Business of Ageing", which identified the challenges and opportunities for companies operating in a climate where both workers and consumers are living longer.
Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd. (NAM) has created funds that invest in life sciences, environmental and renewable energy firms. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of its founding the company donated some of its management fees to organizations that tackle social issues.
Population aging in many developed nations should drive demand even higher for pharmaceuticals and for genomic medicine targeting diseases that are otherwise hard to treat as well as for inexpensive generics. NAM responded to these developments by setting up the Nomura Pictet Generics & Genome Fund, whose portfolio includes firms from around the world. It donates some management fees from this vehicle to the WHO Association of Japan, whose mission is to improve human health.
Another vehicle is the Nomura RCM Green Technology Fund which invests in companies that do business in such fields as clean energy, pollution prevention and pure water resources.
Some management fees similarly go to the Japan Fund for Global Environment.
The fund seeks to achieve investment gains (on a yen equivalent basis) from movements in the FTSE4Good Global 100 Index, an index comprising companies around the world that meet social responsibility standards.
This fund seeks to achieve investment gains from movements in the Morningstar Socially Responsible Investment Stock Index, an SRI index targeting companies listed domestically that is the first of its kind in Japan.
This fund, specifically for defined contribution pension plans, invests in the publicly-offered Nomura Global SRI 100 Fund and its mother fund.
