SPARX Group Co., Ltd.

SPARX Group Co., Ltd. is a publicly owned asset management holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the firm offers asset management and investment advisory services. It invests in real estate, Intelligent Technology (e.g. artificial intelligence), Robotics, Technologies for a Hydrogen-Powered Society, Electrification, New Materials investments as well as in companies that provide solutions that promote carbon neutrality. The firm primarily provides its services to corporate pension annuities, government entities, private and trust banks, and public pension funds. SPARX Group Co., Ltd. was founded on July 1, 1989 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

SPARX Group Co., Ltd. is an independent Asia-based equity and credit asset management services and Asian fund financial specialist with offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul for global institutional and individual investors, including financial advisors and financial planners, with alternative strategies (including activist, short-enabled, private equity and quantitative and fund-of-funds) and mutual funds (through SPARX Asia Funds such as SPARX Asia Pacific Opportunities Fund, SPARX Asia Pacific Equity Income Fund, SPARX Japan Smaller Companies Fund and SPARX Japan Fund) managed or sub-advised by SPARX Asset Management Co. Ltd., SPARX Asia Investment Advisors Limited and Cosmo Asset Management Co., Ltd.