Hideshige Watanabe

SMAM employs active and passive strategies across asset classes and a bottom-up investment approach, aiming to capture inefficiencies in capital markets. Their geographic focus is on Japan, Asia-Pacific and China. They perform in-depth research supplemented by a global network of contacts, which they integrate using a proprietary platform. Investment decisions originate from teams of investment managers. Each of SMAM’s products has a clearly defined investment style and process, with a common emphasis on research, a team approach and company-level quality control, to which teams of research analysts, specialized in sectors and/or styles, contribute. For Japanese equity Investments, they employ GARP, growth, value, small-mid and quantitative investment styles. For fixed-income, they utilize their Japan research capabilities across full active, duration neutral and corporate bond portfolios.

SMDAM aims to produce stable returns in the medium and long term by actively incorporating new investment methodologies and by responding to ever-changing market environments. The firm focuses on various equity strategies with a focus on Asia.

Provides investment advice