Wataru Araiso

AB Japan is a research-oriented manager which follows a growth-and-value investment approach. The firm invests globally in equity and fixed-income with a focus on Japan, Asia and the US. Their investment process emphasizes bottom-up stock-picking based on in-house fundamental research, supplemented with quantitative analysis. AB Japan's fixed-income investment approach is top-down, based on a macroeconomic view as well as interest rate trend and yield curve analysis, supplemented with quantitative modeling. The investment process starts with global asset allocation and aims at exploiting market inefficiencies.

Daiwa AM-Europe is an active, research-driven manager which follows a GARP-oriented investment approach with a medium- to long-term investment horizon. The firm seeks to exploit market inefficiencies, investing globally in bonds, money market instruments, commodities and derivatives. Their investment approach emphasizes economic and market research. They conduct in-house fundamental and technical analysis to identify markets and companies that are undervalued in spite of their perceived growth prospects. Stock selection is based on a combination of qualitative research and quantitative analysis using valuation models.