Katsunori Ogawa

Portfolio Manager-Equities at

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management Co., Ltd.

Consumer Services

Finance

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Katsunori Ogawa, Chief Portfolio Manager joined the firm in 1994.
He was appointed as a client relationship manager for public pension funds in 1997.
In 2002, Katsunori became a portfolio manager of a Japanese equities active strategy.
He applies a thematic/top-down approach in addition to bottom-up stock picking to generate alpha on a constant basis.
He is one of the first investors to capture Asian (especially Chinese) consumer’s demand for Japanese consumer durable goods and was an early investor in companies like Unicharm (a paper nappy maker) and Yakult (lactic fermenting beverages maker).
Katsunori received a BA in economics from Keio University.
He is a Chartered Member of the Securities Analysts Association of Japan (CMA) and a Certified International Investment Analyst (CIIA).

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Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management Co., Ltd. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management Co., Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance SMTAM is an active manager which offers equity, fixed income, index, and multi-asset and alternative strategies. The fund managers of their respective investment departments implement investments in line with the investment plans and manage funds. The general managers of their respective investment departments check the status of investment implementations carried out by the fund managers thereof. The firm leverages the strengths, operational structure, know-how and network of their parent company to manage assets, utilizing bottom-up and top-down quantitative investment styles to make investments through their range of funds.	Portfolio Manager-Equities	01/01/2002

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Keio University Keio University Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management Co., Ltd. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management Co., Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance SMTAM is an active manager which offers equity, fixed income, index, and multi-asset and alternative strategies. The fund managers of their respective investment departments implement investments in line with the investment plans and manage funds. The general managers of their respective investment departments check the status of investment implementations carried out by the fund managers thereof. The firm leverages the strengths, operational structure, know-how and network of their parent company to manage assets, utilizing bottom-up and top-down quantitative investment styles to make investments through their range of funds.	Finance

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