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Nomura Asset Management U.K. Ltd. (NAM) has launched the Global Dynamic Bond Fund, designed to provide investors with a more diversified approach to fixed income investing. Unconstrained by benchmark allocations, the fund seeks to generate attractive total returns by investing across a full range of fixed income securities.

According to William H. Gross, markets are reaching the point of low return and diminishing liquidity. Investors may want to begin to take some chips off the table: raise asset quality, reduce duration, and prepare for at least a halt of asset appreciation engineered upon a false central bank premise of artificial yields, QE and the trickling down of faux wealth to the working class...

Nomura Asset Management U.S.A. Inc. (“Nomura”), today announces the launch of the Nomura High Yield Fund. The Nomura High Yield Fund (Ticker: NPHIX) is sub-advised by the credit research investment boutique Nomura Corporate Research and Asset Management Inc. (“NCRAM”).

Sub-Saharan African Central Banks showed strong interest from the outset, taking 52% of the transaction, the rest being allocated to bank treasuries, private banks and asset managers.

Nomura ICG K.K. (“Nomura ICG”), the 50:50 partnership between Nomura Holdings, Inc. (“Nomura”) and Intermediate Capital Group plc. (“ICG”) announces the first close on their Japan mezzanine fund, NICG Investment Business Limited Partnership A (the “Fund”) at ¥28 billion from 15 investors. The Fund intends to hold its final close in 2015.