Aflac Asset Management LLC (“Aflac GI”) is a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of Aflac Incorporated, a publicly
held company (NYSE Ticker: “AFL”).
Aflac GI, also known as Aflac Global Investments, was founded in October 2017 as a Delaware limited liability
company. Aflac GI serves as the investment manager to Aflac Incorporated, insurance companies affiliated
with Aflac GI through Aflac Incorporated (“Insurance Company Clients”), and other pooled investment vehicles
in which some Insurance Company Clients invest (each a “Client” and collectively, the “Clients”). The pooled
investment vehicles are exempt from registration under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
Aflac GI provides comprehensive asset management services including credit portfolio management, asset
allocation solutions, derivatives solutions and management, and other strategic and tactical portfolio
management services. We utilize external managers for expertise in certain asset classes and, in certain
cases, we employ derivatives to manage risks of our investment strategies and other Client activity.
Portfolio Management – Fixed Income, Derivatives, and Alternative Solutions
Aflac GI’s disciplined process uses a strategic asset allocation to seek long-term risk-adjusted investment
returns and stable income within the regulatory and capital objectives of its Clients. To achieve this objective,
Aflac GI typically invests in fixed income securities including investment-grade and below-investment-grade
bonds, loans and structured securities, both publicly traded and privately originated. In using derivative
instruments, Aflac GI seeks to mitigate various risks associated with its Clients’ investment portfolios and
forecasted cash flows, including currency and interest rate risk. Aflac GI also manages a program of alternative
assets, primarily private fund investments.
Asset Allocation Services
Aflac GI offers asset allocation services and multi-asset advisory services across asset classes and through
its investments in portfolios and other investment vehicles that are managed by third-party managers.
Externally-managed asset
classes include but are not limited to commercial mortgages, transitional real estate
loans, infrastructure debt, middle market loans, public equity and alternative investments such as private and
real estate equity. Each third-party manager must meet certain requirements relating to the respective asset
class at the time of manager selection. Third-party managers are responsible for determining the investments
or securities that are purchased, sold or retained under their respective investment mandates for Aflac GI’s
Clients.
Other
Aflac GI provides discretionary advisory services to sub-trusts of Global Alternatives Trust I, a Cayman Islands
unit trust formed in 2019 (the “Fund”), the Global Alternatives Fund SPC and its related segregated portfolios.
The only investors in the Fund are certain Insurance Company Clients, and Aflac GI does not customize its
advisory services for each individual investor in the Fund.
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The assets of the Fund are invested in accordance with its offering memorandum, deed of trust, and other
governing documents (the “Governing Fund Documents”). The investment strategy of the Fund is described
in greater detail under Alternative Assets in Item 8 below.
Aflac GI also serves as a sub-advisor to Aflac Asset Management Japan Ltd. (“AAMJ”), an affiliated investment
adviser licensed with the Japan Financial Services Agency. Aflac GI provides asset management services on
behalf of AAMJ to Aflac Life Insurance Japan Ltd (“ALIJ”), an insurance company affiliated with Aflac GI.
Subject to the sub-advisory investment guidelines and applicable law, Aflac GI advises AAMJ about the
manner in which ALIJ invests in certain trust and other investment vehicles which, in some cases, are also
Clients of Aflac GI.
Aflac GI also provides portfolio management services to two Delaware statutory trusts that hold interests in a
diversified pool of leveraged loans and in which ALIJ holds all the trust interests.
Aflac GI managed approximately $101,417,509,479 of Client assets on a discretionary basis and
$18,807,143,696 of Client assets on a non-discretionary basis, as of December 31, 2023.