What is Global Asset Management?

What is Global Asset Management?

When you talk about asset management, it simply means managing and growing funds for either individuals or for companies. This is done by making investment decisions for your clients with the purpose of increasing their portfolio and finances.

Global asset management means managing your clients’ funds on a global scale. Global asset management firms like ours work with a range of investors across the globe so that we can offer our clients the diversity of portfolios and investments that will give them higher value options as well as increased capital appreciation potential, while ensuring that the risk associated with investing is mitigated.

How Can Global Asset Management Help You?

A global asset management firm needs to ensure that it has an effective long-term plan for portfolio management. Making investments is a time-consuming task that takes a lot of effort. You need to understand markets and the economic forces that govern them, and you need to do a lot of research before putting your money down on any investment.

In Global Asset Management, our financial advisors help you with these difficult tasks. They have the skills, expertise, experience, discipline as well as market insights that help them make the right investment decisions for you.

One of our financial advisors will first speak with you to understand what your needs are. The interesting thing is that we can help you plan for future financial stability in more ways than one.

You could be planning for your retirement, looking at creating a contingency fund, wanting to increase your income or just have better savings, need some work done on estate planning, increase your funds for your children’s future education, or even looking at options for insurance.

Whatever be the case, our advisors will help you determine what your financial needs are, and then create an investment plan that will help you meet those needs, whether they are short-term, mid or long-term.

We at Global Asset Management use various tools and strategies to ensure that your portfolio is appropriately diverse. Using these tools, we also can help you minimize your taxes, and also protect your investments in times of market instability.

Investing in Japan

As a wealth management company in Japan, we are intimately aware of the potential there is to invest in this country. Here are a few reasons why investing in Japan is such a good idea:

• Pro-Business Policies

Japan did not become one of the world’s largest economies by mistake. The country has a high level of business sophistication, a complex economy that is business-oriented, a range of local suppliers that are known for the quality of their products, as well as solid controls for international distribution. In fact, 51 of the Fortune Global Top 500 Companies are based out of Japan.

Japan’s pro-business policy is supported by internal stability, making it a great place in which to invest.

• Strong Emphasis on R&D Investments

The Japanese Government has a strong commitment to R&D, as does the private sector. The country has some of the strongest intellectual property laws anywhere in the world, making it the perfect place for businesses focused on R&D to flourish.

Because of this, wealth management firms often give their clients options to invest in companies that focus heavily on research and development.

• Abenomics Showing Results

The Japanese economy, which has suffered from decades of stagnation is now finally bouncing back. Since 2017, the country has seen a bullish market, and that trend is still continuing.

Abenomics, a term coined to refer to the economic policies set in motion by Shinzo Abe, has slowly and surely pulled Japan out of its limbo. Now, investors are waiting for the Third Arrow of Abenomics – the country’s inflation rates – that will infuse its economy with even more funds. With this infusion, Japan will be a fruit ripe to be plucked by investors.

• Japanese Equity Funds

The privatization of Japan’s equity industry has been welcomed by investors across the world. The country’s equity funds are considered to be one of the best pension funds in the world in which to invest. So, with their privatization, it opens up a whole new world of opportunity for global asset managers across the world.

• Leader in Technology

Japan is considered to be one of the world leaders in technology and robotics, and this is where the future lies. And the interesting thing is that it is not the multinational giants that are leading the way, but startups and medium sized companies, making them perfect for long-term investments.

Read our article on Growth vs. Value Investing

October 29, 2019