Milissa Hutchinson

Managing Director, Head of US Wealth at Nomura Asset Management International

Speaker

Milissa is Head of US Wealth of Nomura Asset Management International, a role she assumed in December 2023 with Macquarie Asset Management. She joined Nomura Asset Management as part of Nomura’s acquisition of Macquarie Asset Management’s US and European public investments business in 2025. Milissa and her team are responsible for the product development, distribution, and marketing of the firm’s investment strategies across the private and public markets to US Wealth clients. Milissa is a member of the Nomura Asset Management International Executive Committee.

Previously, she was Head of the Strategic Relationship Group at Macquarie Asset Management, where she was responsible for partnering with strategic US Wealth partners to identify growth opportunities across the firm’s private and public business, while effectively communicating the firm’s capabilities and strategies to its key distribution partners. Prior to joining Macquarie in 2015, she was an Investment Product Specialist at J.P. Morgan Chase. Before that, Milissa was an Assistant Vice President and Relationship Manager at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. She started her career in the mutual fund department at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.

She earned a Bachelor of Business Administration, magna cum laude, with a major in economics and a minor in finance from the University of Miami, and she holds her Series 7, 66, and 24 licenses. Milissa holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation.