Shinichi Ebata

Background

About Shinichi Ebata

Shinichi Ebata has been working in Japan asset management industry more than 30 years being in charge of well-rounded roles in this industry. 1) 3 years: Research, back & middle office, assistant fund manager 2) 7 years: Portfolio manager of Japanese equity, convertible bonds and balanced fund for both pension funds and domestic mutual funds 3) 20 years: Sales & marketing for public & corporate pension funds (both existing client service and new business development), regional financial institutions and retail fund business. Roughly, his professional expertise exists in pension funds business; 65%, in financial institutions business; 20-25%, in retail business; 10-15% based on self-recognition. His key skills and attributes are as follows;* 30 years of broad experiences in an asset management industry.* 20 years of sales and marketing covering Japanese corporate pension funds, financial institutions and retail fund distributors.* Huge network of contacts among corporate pension funds, public pension funds, regional financial institutions, pension consultants and major fund distributors.* Extensive experience of marketing to prospective clients and conducting client service to existing clients.* Wide coverage of investment products from traditional asset classes - equities & fixed income to alternatives - hedge funds, real estate, private equity & debt, US leveraged loan, US timberland, structured products, and so on. His style is to build the most suitable business strategy depending on the company's situation and to execute it firmly and aggressively to achieve the target, even if resources would not be sufficient. As for each client he always give importance to connect client need and the most suitable product in optimal manner. He believes eventual competitive edge of his job style is creativity and imagination to fill in a gap between client's need and product characteristics being supported by passion, energy and deep understanding of the product.