- CEO
- Manabu Aizawa
- Full Time Employees
- 707
- Sector
- Finance
- Industry
- Investment banks/Brokers
- Address
- Tokyo Shiodome Building Tokyo Japan 105-7307
- IPO Date
- Feb 22, 2006
- Business
- Aizawa Securities Group Co., Ltd. is a holding company that oversees financial securities, investment, asset management, and financial instruments brokerage businesses primarily in Japan. Founded on July 7, 1918, and established on October 3, 1933, the company is headquartered at Tokyo Shiodome Building, 1-9-1 Higashi-Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, and lists its shares on the Prime Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange under ticker 8708. Its core subsidiaries include AIZAWA SECURITIES CO., LTD., which handles brokerage commissions including equities, mutual funds, wraps, bonds, underwriting, distribution, futures, options, forex, and proprietary trading; AIZAWA Investments Co., Ltd., focused on proprietary investments in financial securities, real estate, and growth companies; AIZAWA ASSET MANAGEMENT Co., Ltd., providing alternative asset management services mainly to institutional investors; LIFE DESIGN PARTNERS CO., LTD., supporting independent financial advisors (IFA) and platform business; and Japan Securities Co., Ltd., dealing in Asian securities markets. The group targets retail, corporate, and institutional clients with services spanning fund procurement, wealth management, M&A advisory, IPO support, goal-based asset building products like Smile Goal wraps, and regional collaborations with banks and shinkin banks such as THE SAGA KYOEI BANK, LTD., THE SAIKYO BANK, LTD., and others. Recent major changes include a transition to holding company structure in October 2021 with business succession to subsidiaries; completion of a 6.3 million share buyback (17% of outstanding shares) worth 10.78 billion yen in June 2024; announcement in April 2024 of over 20 billion yen in shareholder returns through FY2028 via dividends (including special dividends) and buybacks; signing of a Company Split Agreement in September 2024 with THE SAGA KYOEI BANK, LTD. to absorb customer securities accounts for public bonds and mutual funds; launch of endowed financial literacy lectures at Kanda University of International Studies since September 2024; establishment of a Regional Collaboration Support Office in July 2024 with employee placement at Oyama town government office; and development of a medium-term IFA business plan targeting 500 billion yen AUC through IT and HR investments. In its 2Q FY2025 results ending September 30, 2024, the group reported consolidated operating revenue of 9.5 billion yen, profit of 1.5 billion yen, AUC of 1.94 trillion yen, and initiatives under the "Define Next 100 - More for our customers" medium-term plan emphasizing ROE improvement, cost of capital awareness, platform expansion, and sustainability.