Akihiro Murakami

NAM employs a team approach, active management that focuses on fundamental research. The firm offers a broad range of equity strategies, including Core, Value, and Growth. The investment approach of the Core strategy combines a bottom-up, relative value approach with rigorous fundamental research on individual stocks and a top-down overlay. The Value strategy is purely a bottom-up approach without sector constraints where the quality of stock selection is paramount. NAM aims to add value by investing in stocks they consider to be undervalued with potential and strength. The Growth strategy focuses on return on equity (ROE) level and sustainability and fundamental strength. The firm also offer strategies that focuses on specific capitalization ranges (i.e., small cap), sectors and countries or particular geographic regions.

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Manulife Investment Management Japan believes that appropriate consideration of ESG (environmental, social, and governance) aspects will promote the medium- to long-term growth of investee companies and lead to improved medium- to long-term investment returns. In addition to listed stocks and bonds around the world, they have a long track record in alternative investments such as real estate, forestry, and farmland investments.