Company Profile

About Principal Global Investors Co., Ltd.

We are the asset management division of Principal Financial Group, Inc.
A Japanese subsidiary of a group centered on Principal Global Investors LLC

Trade Name
Principal Global Investors Co., Ltd.

Location
11th Floor, Imperial Hotel Tower, 1-1-1 Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0011

Date of Establishment
August 30, 2006 (Start of operations: December 5, 2006)

Shareholder
Principal Global Investors Asia (UK) Ltd. (100% voting rights)

Representative
Representative Director and President Hitoshi Itagaki

Number of Officers and Employees
35, including 6 executives (1 full-time, 5 part-time) as of January 1, 2022

Board of Directors
Representative Director and President - Biography of Hitoshi Itagaki
Director - Barbara McKenzie
Director - Brian Ness
Director - Kirk WestMore
Director -Sri Reddy
Auditor - Koji Ueda

Financial Instruments Business Registration Number
Director of the Kanto Local Finance Bureau (Kinsho) No. 462

Member Association
Japan Investment Advisers Association
The Investment Trusts Association, Japan
Type II Financial Instruments Firms Association

History

September 2002
Established Tokyo Representative Office of Principal Global Investors
August 2006
Reorganized the representative office and established Principal Global Investors Japan Co., Ltd.
December 2006
Registered as an investment adviser (registration number: Director of the Kanto Local Finance Bureau No. 1627)
July 2007
Acquisition of discretionary investment business license (license number: Prime Minister No. 79)
September 2007
Registered as an investment management business and investment advisor/agent under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (registration number: Kanto Local Finance Bureau Director (Kinsho) No. 462)
March 2008
First entrustment from domestic corporate pension
July 2008
Company name changed to Principal Global Investors Co., Ltd.
February 2009
First entrustment from a domestic public pension
August 2014
Announced acceptance of Japan's Stewardship Code
December 2016
Submit a notification related to investment trust management business
January 2017
Joined The Investment Trusts Association, Japan
November 2018
Registered as a Type II Financial Instruments Business

August 2021
Joined Type II Financial Instruments Firms Association