Seiichi Hirata

Operates and manages real estate agencies

STB is a GARP-oriented investment manager with a medium- to long-term outlook and an active, bottom-up investment approach focused on a company's earnings growth. Their investment process is research-oriented. Research is shared within the parent group and includes company visits. Fellow subsidiary STB Research Institute Co. Ltd. provides investment intelligence to the firm's managers of real estate funds. STB invests primarily in Japanese and foreign equity, domestic and global fixed income and real estate. They also invest in convertible bonds and commodities. STB invests in Japan, Asia including China, Oceania, emerging markets and Europe. The firm's investment products are managed according to a variety of strategies (active, passive, equity, bonds, balanced, alternative and absolute return). The firm manages diversified portfolios. Domestic equity investments follow themes such as the ubiquity of information technology and population aging. Their Japanese SRI products is invested in listed equity of companies actively addressing corporate social responsibility issues, and aims to outperform the TOPIX index over the medium and long terms.

Provides financing services for real estate, infrastructure and environmental & renewable energy fields

Functions as a foundation or endowment