Nomura Holdings Inc.’s chief executive officer sees more scope to get business from Japanese investors who are looking to private markets as a way to diversify their assets. 
“Compared with the share of private assets in portfolios overseas, Japan’s exposure is still quite low,” CEO Kentaro Okuda said in an interview broadcast on TV Tokyo on Thursday. “That means there’s still room to include private products to enhance performance and stabilize returns. We see significant potential in this area and intend to pursue it actively.”
 
  Kentaro Okuda
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    Okuda has spearheaded a push by Nomura into private markets, partly to ...