SPARX Group, headed by Shuhei Abe and one of Asia’s largest alternative investments groups with $6.97 billion in assets, is reigniting its ambition of being an Asia-based global alternatives heavyweight. It plans to widen its product menu and integrate investment ideas within the three group brands–SPARX, PMA and Cosmo – to develop pan-Asia expertise.
Shuhei Abe
In addition to the Asian growth theme, the firm is also betting strongly on the domestic demand-driven story in Japan and looking to invest in Japanese companies that would benefit from the growing consumer demand in the country.
“This is a slightly contrarian view, but we feel...