History

199707 Incorporated Simplex Capital Limited (“SCL”)
199803 Launched the Fixed Income Arbitrage Strategies Fund
199911 Incorporated Simplex Asset Management (“SAM”)
12 Obtained Japan Investment Advisory license
200003 Transferred business undertaken SCL to SAM
05 Obtained Discretionary Investment Approval
08 Launched the Simplex Arbitrage Program
08 Received capital injection from The Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Company and Nikko Securities Co., Ltd.
(now known as Nikko Cordial Securities Inc.)
200104 Obtained Investment Trust Management License
08 Launched the Simplex Premier Fund
(Japanese domiciled fund/Fund of Hedge-funds)
200508 Launched the Simplex Japan Value Up Fund
10 Hiromasa Mizushima became the president and CEO
200607 Launched the SAM Analytic Japanese Equity Neutral Fund
(SAM’s first publicly offered fund)
10 Established Simplex Financial Holdings Co., Ltd.
11 Launched the Simplex Value Up Trust
200709 Pre-registered as Financial Instruments Firm in accordance with enforcement of Financial Instruments and Exchange Law
11 Registered as Financial Instruments Firms
(Investment Management, Investment Advisory)
200802 Added public feeder to the Simplex Japan Value Up Fund (Japanese domiciled fund)