Masakazu Takeda, Sparx Group
Masakazu Takeda is a lead portfolio manager at SPARX Asset Management Co., Ltd. He has 20 years of portfolio management and financial analysis experience. Since 2006 he is the head investment officer of the Japan Focus All Cap Strategy. Within this strategy, he has been managing Mid to Large Cap tilted concentrated Japan equity portfolios. Since 2010, he has been part of the SPARX OneAsia investment strategy team overseeing the Pan Asia investment universe. Mr. Takeda joined SPARX in 1999 as a research analyst and became a fund manager in 2004. Prior to joining SPARX, he started his career as a corporate loan officer at Long Term Credit Bank (currently Shinsei Bank) and then as an operations risk manager with LTCB Warburg (currently UBS Securities). He graduated from International Christian University in 1996 with a Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts. Mr. Takeda is a Chartered Member of the Security Analysts Association of Japan and also a CFA® Charterholder.