Masahide Komatsu

The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co., Ltd. (Investment Portfolio) (Dai-ichi-IP) is the investment portfolio management operation of Dai-ichi Life Holdings, Inc. (TSE: 8750), a mutual life insurance firm headquartered in Japan. Founded in 1902, Dai-ichi Life Insurance provides individual and group life insurance to private individuals and corporate clients. Dai-ichi-IP provides individual and group pension plans and pension products services.

Asset Management One USA (AMONE USA) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm is the US division of the Asset Management One Group, a global investment management group headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. AMONE USA was founded in 1994 as Dai-Ichi Life Investment Management Co. Ltd. The firm has since been renamed to DLIBJ Asset Management USA, Inc. in 2000 and to DIAM USA, Inc. in 2008. In October 2016, the name was changed to Asset Management One USA, Inc., following the integration their parent company, DIAM Co., Ltd., Asset Management Division of Mizuho Trust Bank, Mizuho Asset Management, and Shinko Asset Management under the new name of Asset Management One Co. Ltd. ( AMONE JAPAN). AMONE USA offers discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory services to institutional clients, employee benefit plans, corporations and pooled investment vehicles (primarily offshore trusts for Japanese investors).