CEO & CIO Tetsuya kudo
Kudo started his career in trading in 1994. In 2011, he left a Japanese securities proprietary trading team to join Yamawa Securities Co., Ltd. as the head of the proprietary trading department. During his time in Yamawa Securities Co., Ltd., he has nurtured and groomed countless of traders and developed the proprietary trading business in Yamawa Securities Co., Ltd.
He has also given lectures and published books in his career.
COO
Ruby tan
Ruby has built her career in the finance industry with Credit Lyonnais Rouse、IBJ Lanston Futures、Mizuho Futures、CLSA Singapore. She has met an uncountable number of traders during her time in the various companies. She joined Yamawa Securities Co., Ltd. Singapore Branch in 2016, and is now the COO of Yamawa Asset Management Pte. Ltd.
head Portfolio manager
takamitsu nakai
Nakai started his career trading equities with a proprietary trading department in a Japanese securities company in 2005. He later joined Yamawa Securities Co., Ltd. in 2013 and has been consistently one of the top traders since then. Using his skills in programming to analyze data and companies, he has a reputation of having strong analytical skills.
He combines several strategies to his investment process and exposure as a whole. His key investment strategies are "reversals" and "system investment based on data analysis".
Core strategy :Equity Long Short
Portfolio manager
NOBUYUKI TANAKA
Tanaka joined Yamawa Securities Dealing Department in May 2015 as a trainee dealer. He was trained from scratch at Yamawa Securities. By the second year, he was one of the top proprietary traders. After three years, Tanaka was transferred to the Singapore branch, based on his strong track record. He moved to Yamawa Asset Management as an Assistant PM from August 2020.
He holds a relatively high weighting in large-cap stocks, resulting in a well-balanced portfolio composition. In addition to his bottom-up analysis skills, he shows high potential and has the ability to widen the strategy market coverage – such as global markets in the future.
Core strategy :Equity Long Short
ASSISTANT Portfolio manager
SOTA MORIYA
Moriya is the first cohort of the Portfolio Manager training program that began in August 2022. He has overcome tough selection and has grown to become one of the top performers in the Yamawa Securities 40-member Proprietary Trading Department. His strength is adapting flexible investment strategies to align with market sentiment of prevailing trends. He also demonstrate exceptional knowledge and research abilities in fundamentals of individual stocks and stock valuation.
His portfolio compositions has high weightage of small-to-mid cap stocks, where participants are clear and fundamental research is in in-depth.
Core strategy :Equity Long Short