Nikko drops Tyndall brand name

Nikko Asset Management announced it is pushing global products into the Australian and New Zealand market as it sees the two countries' investors allocating heavily to global assets.

The Tokyo-based company also said it will no longer use the Tyndall brand names in these markets.

"We are one company and therefore should share one name globally as Asia' premier global asset manager," president and CEO of Nikko Takumi Shibata said.

Nikko will provide new products to both retail and institutional clients in both Australia and New Zealand.

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Nikko Asset Management New Zealand managing director Peter Lynn said there will be no change to the investment teams, philosophy or processes.

Nikko's Australian operation has A$24 billion in assets under management, which is about 14 per cent of Nikko's total assets of US$168 billion as of June 2014.

The New Zealand arm, operating out of Auckland, had assets under management of NZ$3.8 billion.

Nikko formed a new global multi-asset team in August, led by Al Clark. It also added a global active equity capability headed by William Low, and an Asia ex-Japan equity team led by Peter Sartori in October 2013.