| January 1998 | Established as a 100% subsidiary of RS Investments, an U.S. equity boutique investment firm that had started as an asset management arm of Robertson, Stephens & Company based in San Francisco, to provide specialty investment advice to Japan's institutional clients |
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| February 1998 | Registered as an Investment Advisory Company at Kanto Local Finance Bureau |
| December 1999 | Licensed as a Discretionary Investment Management Company by the Financial Reconstruction Committee, and entered into the pension fund management business |
| September 2001 | Approved to manage currencies to meet the need to hedge currency risks accompanied with foreign currency denominated assets |
| April 2002 | Acquired the majority equity ownership (90%) of the company from RS Investments through management buyout |
| June 2002 | Licensed as an Investment Trust Management Company by the Prime Minister of Japan |
| July 2002 | Launched Bayview Japan Equity Long Short Fund, a Japanese equity hedge fund, based on fundamentals bottom-up research |
| June 2003 | Appointed to serve on the Board of Directors of Japan Securities Investment Advisers Association(until 2010) |
| July 2004 | Launched Japanese Equity Active Plus Fund, a Japanese equity long-only fund, featuring the cash strategy to control the equity/cash weighting flexibly |
| January 2007 | Changed its company name from RS Asset Management Japan Co., Ltd. to Bayview Asset Management Co., Ltd. to underline its corporate independence, following the affiliation of RS Investments, the former parent company, with Guardian Insurance Company in September 2006 |
| March 2007 | Completed stock buyback from RS Investments(10%), thus became a fully independent Japanese asset management boutique |
| April 2008 | Formed the Board of Executive Officers, that acts as decision-making committee for business execution |
| July 2010 | Launched New Alphex Long Short Fund, a Japanese equity hedge fund with opportunistic Asian equities long, based on bottom-up corporate analysis and top-down market analysis |
| April 2011 | Recruited new graduates from university for the first time since its establishment |
