Executive Summary

View which asset managers are ranked highest by institutional investors in Japan for various factors including: client service quality, business development, and by asset class.

Methodology

This research is based on personal interviews conducted from April through October 2024 with 254 of the largest corporate pension funds, public pension funds, financial institutions, and endowments & foundations in Japan.

Total reported fund assets were ¥949 trillion

Senior fund professionals provided quantitative and qualitative evaluations of their investment managers, assessments of those managers soliciting their business, and detailed information on important market trends.