Yoshihiro Namura, CFA

Yoshihiro Namura has assumed the position of CIO at Nomura Asset Management (NAM) effective April 1, 2010. Prior to his nomination he was Co-CIO and oversaw fixed income investments at NAM and served as the Co-Chairman of the firm's Investment Policy Committee since April 2009. Prior to that, he headed NAM's equity investment department for one year. For the previous seven years, he managed as much as $30 billion in fund-of-funds products across various asset classes at Nomura Funds Research and Technologies Co., Ltd. He spent three years as an emerging market sovereign credit analyst with Nomura's affiliate in New York in late 1990s. He started his career with Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. in 1988 and engaged mainly in derivatives-related trading. He holds a Master of Science in Management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Engineering in Applied Mathematics from Kyoto University.