Nomura Investment Management Business Trust

• A percentage of assets under your management
• Fixed fees (other than subscription fees)
• Performance-based fees

Item 5.E lists how the firm is compensated for its advice; Items 5.B, 6.A, and 7.A show whether its people or related companies can also earn commissions. Percentage of assets, fixed, hourly, subscription, and performance-based fees come from clients (a performance-based fee depends on investment results); commissions come with a sale or a trade, often from the company behind the product. How fees, commissions, and other arrangements differ

See the firm's brochure (dated June 29, 2026) for its fees and any account minimum, on the SEC's IAPD site.

$144,044,874,720 as of October 2026, filing dated September 16, 2026.

A measure of scale, not skill or returns. Discretionary means the firm decides trades; non-discretionary means clients approve each one. What assets under management means

A firm with no individual clients is an institutional manager even if it manages billions; the mix tells you whom the practice is built around.

• Portfolio management for individuals and/or small businesses
• Portfolio management for investment companies (and business development companies)
• Portfolio management for pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies)
• Portfolio management for businesses (other than small businesses) or institutional clients
• Selection of other advisers (including private fund managers)
• Other

Also doing business as

DELAWARE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, DELAWARE MANAGEMENT COMPANY, NOMURA ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES, NOMURA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT ADVISERS, NOMURA INVESTMENTS FUND ADVISERS

Registration

SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.

Registered since

1988 (38 years)

Employees

Total: 778. Performing investment advisory functions: 219.

Wrap fee program participation

Yes.

Custodians (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3))

Bank of New York Mellon CorporationNorthern Trust CorporationState Street Corporation

Custodians holding 10% or more of the firm's separately managed account assets, as filed on Form ADV (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)). A custodian holds client assets; it does not endorse or supervise the firm. AdvisorCensus has no relationship with any custodian.

Other offices (Schedule D, Section 1.F)

5 other offices, as of the October 2026 filing

Boston, MAChicago, ILJacksonville, FLNew York, NYOverland Park, KS

States registered or notice-filed

51 states or jurisdictions

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SEC-registered investment advisers are examined by the SEC. SEC, state, and exempt registration

4 Reports 4 disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11. View on IAPD.

Questions answered yes on this filing

Regulatory matters Items 11.C to 11.G

• 11.C(1) Has the SEC or the CFTC ever found that the firm or an advisory affiliate made a false statement or omission?
• 11.C(2) Has the SEC or the CFTC ever found that the firm or an advisory affiliate was involved in a violation of SEC or CFTC regulations or statutes?
• 11.C(4) Has the SEC or the CFTC ever entered an order against the firm or an advisory affiliate in connection with investment-related activity?
• 11.C(5) Has the SEC or the CFTC ever imposed a civil money penalty on the firm or an advisory affiliate, or ordered the firm or an advisory affiliate to cease and desist from an activity?

Each question covers the firm and its advisory affiliates: its current employees other than clerical staff, its officers, partners, and directors, and anyone who controls the firm or is controlled by it. One event can produce yes answers to several questions. SEC-registered advisers and exempt reporting advisers may leave out events more than ten years old, and may answer 11.A(2) and 11.B(2) for pending charges only. What happened, and who was involved, is on the Disclosure Reporting Pages of the IAPD record. Reading a firm's disclosures

Regulatory assets under management: $178,468,859,830 in the October 2021 data and $144,044,874,720 in the October 2026 data, down 19%.

Total employees: 532 in October 2021 and 778 in October 2026.

As filed in each year's data for the same month. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going; they measure scale, not skill or returns. Most firms update these figures once a year.

1. July 2026
   • Employees performing advisory functions went from 157 to 219.
   • Regulatory assets under management went from $164,320,917,908 to $144,044,874,720 (-12%).
   • Added an office in Chicago, IL.
   • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).
2. February 2026
   • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).
3. January 2026
   • No longer lists the business name Macquarie Private Fund Advisers.
   • No longer lists the business name Macquarie Investment Management Advisers.
   • No longer lists the business name Macquarie Asset Advisers.
   • No longer lists the business name Macquarie Alternative Strategies.
   • No longer lists the business name Delaware Investments Fund Advisers.
   • No longer lists the business name CPG Fund Advisers.
   • Added the business name Nomura Investments Fund Advisers.
   • Added the business name Nomura Investment Management Advisers.
   • Added the business name Nomura Alternative Strategies.
   • Changed its legal name from Macquarie Investment Management Business Trust to Nomura Investment Management Business Trust.
   • Changed its office addresses in New York, NY.
   • Added an office in Jacksonville, FL.
   • No longer lists an office in Chicago, IL.
   • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).

Compared month to month from the SEC's monthly adviser data and the state compilation feed. Owners and control persons are summarized, never named.