Yasushi Kato

Amundi Japan is an active manager which conducts in-house research to construct portfolios that invest in Euro bonds, global bonds, money market, European, Japanese, Asian and emerging markets equities. The firm is a leader in credit derivatives operations.

SGAM uses a bottom-up investment process that gives priority to stock picking. This picking is combined with comprehensive fundamental research and analyzing the major world economies, fixed-income and equity markets. Portfolio managers, organized by geographic or sector expertise, rely upon feedback from a team of economists, strategists and research analysts to make investment decisions. The selection of securities is confirmed by geographical- and sector-based risk control. They invest in all major asset classes, both on a multi-asset and specialist basis. In order to outperform the market, they believe their portfolio managers must be free of style restrictions such as value and growth