Kenneth Courtis

Functions as a foundation or endowment

NCP is an active manager which contributes skills, experience and capital to help revive and build value in distressed small and medium-sized Japanese businesses across sectors including manufacturing, banking and engineering. The firm seeks to invest in companies with growth potential which need to improve their performance as well as in growing companies which aim to expand. They partner with their investee companies, providing staff members and external directors to provide management support. NCP restructures their investee companies, enhancing their finances, implementing changes to increase employee motivation (such as introducing performance-related bonuses, achievement-oriented performance reviews) and restructuring their marketing and business strategy to further growth of their core business. The firm aims to revitalize a distressed firm in approximately three years.

Provides banking services

Provides investment banking services

Next Capital takes a fully customized, unbiased approach to managing client portfolios. The firm focuses on building diversified, outcome-oriented portfolios that emphasize risk-adjusted returns and tax efficiency with an intense focus on capital preservation. They primarily allocate client investment assets to various mutual funds, exchange traded funds, and individual equity and fixed income securities, on a discretionary and non-discretionary basis, in accordance with the client’s designated investment objective(s).

Functions as a College/University

Provides asset management services

Owns and operates coal mines