Yasuaki Kinoshita

Mr. Yasuaki Kinoshita is Chief Portfolio Manager at Nissay Asset Management Corp.
Mr. Kinoshita joined Nissay Asset Management in 2004 and started his career in the Japanese equity market as an analyst covering IT Hardware and Capital Goods.
He took the initiative role to introduce the new CFROI model into NAM's research team.
He also started a shareholder engagement with some of corporate managers of his coverage and developed his new responsibility as a portfolio manager of shareholder engagement strategy, which was brand new in the Japanese equity market at that time.
He joined Nippon Life in 1992, where he served as a US and European equity analyst and fund manager until 2004, based in Tokyo and London.
Mr. Kinoshita holds a B.A.
in Economics from Osaka University and a M.Sc.
in Financial Management from the University of London.
He is a Japanese citizen and native speaker and fluent in English.