Mission statement
Why we set up a partnership and what we aspire to is based on the philosophies and public mission which we share among the team. This statement defines our mission and code of conduct. It represents basic principles and founders’ belief we have to revisit while we operate in a complicated society and:
- We will contribute to the society to increase the number of “Good Companies” in the world. We define “Good Companies”as companies which provide products and service that help people and continue long term growth with appropriate earning capacity supported by their high value creation. “Good Companies” will build long term relations with stakeholders such as business partners, customers and community, and make an advance investment and commit to R&D to improve their product and service. “Good Companies” will provide stable employment opportunities and way of living to their employees and their family, and cultivate their faculties and personal quality as professionals.
- By increasing the number of “Good Companies”, we believe that the companies and people contribute to the society through the business activity and realize the society which the next generation can hope the future.
- We support the companies to realize their potential to be “Good Companies” and provide necessary managerial resources. In particular, we will revisit corporate identity, strategy, business domain, market environment, value chain and operation with management team from a long term perspective. After the investment, we will support management’s implementation as a shareholder who committed to the mid to long term business plan, monitor the progress and enforce appropriate governance based on the trust without being obsessed by a short term performance fluctuation.
- Our business is management of private equity funds. We will build up the best financial strategy to achieve the business plan agreed with the portfolio management and provide the risk capital through the funds under management. Not only supporting the portfolio companies to be “Good Companies” who continue to earn high earnings but also achieving "Good Investment" to deliver the outstanding investment return to investors, we will pursue the appropriate leverage scheme and investment exists which realize the portfolio companies' fair value and result continuous growth.
- Our role as a fund manager is to provide outstanding alternative investment opportunities to the mid to long term investors. Fund managers should assume the social mission to grow in wealth to support the future society. We will carry our fiduciary duty and perform our social mission.
- We aim to allow private equity to take root in the industry as a primordial finance function and contribute to the development of the society through our activities.
- Our partnership is supported by pride in our mission, passion to achieve and strong relationship of trust:
- We know that our greatest asset is people. We will invest personal development and aspire their happiness psychologically and materially.
- We will talk frankly, listen actively, and make our workplace comfortable.
- We respect diversified personality and ability, and embrace difference in nationality, gender and ages. We value personality such as integrity, endurance, thoughtfulness, humility and teamwork.
- We are one team as a partnership. Each of us has a sense of ownership over our activity. We will share all information of management situation among the team.
- We all fulfill our responsibility to stakeholders and share our success and failure as the result of our activity.
- We understand our role to serve stakeholders such as investors and portfolio companies, and do not make a display of our achievement and performance.
- We will cultivate leaders of the next generation of private equity. We will create a corporate culture which makes it possible to cooperate on development of private equity and keep friendly relationship for long term with the team members even after any of us leaves the partnership.