The Nomura Group is a global financial services group with offices in 28 countries. Founded in 1925 in Osaka, Japan, Nomura employs over 14,000 people worldwide. In July 2003, Business Week magazine ranked Nomura Holdings in the top 200 of their Global 1000 World's Most Valuable Companies survey.

Business activities

Nomura is dedicated to providing a broad range of financial services for institutional, corporate, government and individual customers. The Group's business activities include:

  • securities brokerage services
  • securities underwriting for domestic and foreign governments and corporations
  • merger and acquisition and financial advisory services
  • merchant banking and asset management for investment trusts and pension funds
  • investment consultation services for retail investors in Japan.

Nomura's contribution to education

The Nomura Group has traditionally invested in academic excellence. In addition to sponsoring the Nomura Centre for Mathematical Finance at Oxford University, Nomura contributes to joint research projects with Tokyo, Hitotsubashi and Kyoto Universities and funds several university professorships in the US.

Research within the Nomura Group

Nomura has an extensive equity and fixed income research capability, with analysts based in Japan, elsewhere in Asia, Europe and the United States. Quantitative research is an important element in Nomura's range of global research products. More than 70 people worldwide work together to offer institutional money managers a comprehensive range of quantitative products, including:

  • Portfolio Strategy
  • Portfolio Performance/Risk Analysis
  • Portfolio Construction/Rebalancing
  • Index Research
  • Asset Allocation
  • Transaction Cost Analysis/Tools
  • Convertible & Warrant Analysis
  • Derivative/Risk Research
  • Index Compilation