Overview

This strategy pursues excess returns by selecting stocks, with emphasis on medium-to long-term growth potential, based on company analysis by our in-house analysts. Growth stocks are specified based on the analysts’ ratings.

Manager and Analysts

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Tatsuya Suzuki
Chief Portfolio Manager

Tatsuya has the ultimate decision-making authority and accountability for Japan Quality Growth Fund.

Tatsuya has the ultimate decision-making authority and accountability for Japan Quality Growth Fund.

He joined the firm in 1995 and became an analyst for Telecoms and IT services in 1999. Then he moved to become a portfolio manager of Japan Fundamental Growth (JFG) strategy * in 2005. He launched the Japan Quality Growth (JQG) strategy in 2015 as a spin-off of the JFG strategy as he was convinced that the change of Japanese companies’ attitudes to improve Return on Equity would provide investment opportunities.

He continues to work as a member of the JFG portfolio management team and discuss/share the investment ideas with the team. The investment philosophy of JQG is shared and well-understood by the members of the JFG portfolio management team**.

Tatsuya is a graduate of Waseda University with a BA in law. He is a Chartered Member of the Securities Analysts Association of Japan and was a member of a corporate disclosure study group within the Securities Analysts Association of Japan from 2006 to 2010.