Corporate Data

Name Nippon Building Fund Management Ltd.
Office 38th Floor, GranTokyo North Tower
9-1, Marunouchi 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-6738, Japan
Established September 19, 2000
Capital 495 million Yen
Shareholders
Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. 43%
Sumitomo Life Insurance Company 35%
The Chuo Mitsui Trust and Banking Company Limited 5%
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation 5%
Daido Life Insurance Company 3%
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company Limited 3%
Mitsui Life Insurance Company Limited 3%
The Britel Fund Trustees Limited. 3%
President & CEO Koichi Nishiyama
Executives
(full time)
20
History
September 19, 2000 Establishment of MF Asset Management Co., Ltd. (capital: ¥100 million)
November 17, 2000 Obtained residential real estate business license and approval of the Governor of Tokyo Metro No. (1) 79145
January 29, 2001 Obtained discretionary agency license (based on Paragraph 1, Article 50-2 of the Residential Real Estate Business Law)
February 15, 2001 Registered as general real estate investment advisor No. 000007
March 7, 2001 Obtained approval to conduct investment trust business from the Office of the Prime Minister (No. 3)
March 16, 2001 Joined the Investment Trusts Association
March 22, 2001 Increased capital to ¥198 million
May 23, 2001 Amended name to Nippon Building Fund Management Ltd.
June 16, 2001 Increased capital to ¥495 million
Full-Time Directors
Koichi Nishiyama Mr. Koichi Nishiyama, who is also the executive director of Nippon Building Fund Inc., has been the president and chief executive officer of NBFM since the establishment of this asset management company in 2000. Mr. Nishiyama has more than 30 years of practical business experience at Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd., which is the leading real estate company in Japan and is also one of the sponsors of NBFM, and has been engaged primarily in development related to office buildings, rental marketing, asset management, administration of accounting and asset management businesses.
He received a Bachelor of Arts in Law from Tokyo University.
Yasushi Nakayama Mr. Yasushi Nakayama has served as the chief investment officer of NBFM since April 2007. Mr. Nakayama has more than 20 years of practical business experience at Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd., which is the leading real estate company in Japan and is also one of the sponsors of NBFM, and has been engaged primarily in development related to office buildings etc.
He received a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Hokkaido University.
Riichi Morihiro Mr. Morihiro was appointed as COO and Compliance Officer of NBFM in April, 2006.
He acquired more than 25 years of business experience at Sumitomo Life Insurance Company, which is one of the largest life insurance companies in Japan and is also one of the sponsors of NBFM. He has been involved in the real estate business for a long time, and, particularly in Japan and Australia, has been engaged in the real estate investment and asset management businesses as an institutional investor.
Mr. Morihiro graduated from the Hokkaido University Faculty of Law (B.L.).

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