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JIAM has invited two art industry experts to explore the relationship between art and an international financial city. Dennis Layton, a Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company, runs an art investment platform named Ikon exchange in London, a global financial city, and will be speaking to us about the relationship between art and finance in London. (presentation in English)

After that, Mr. Tai Iguchi, CEO of TRiCERA, Inc., which is a platform that supports artists to sell their works to the global audience, will talk about the current situation and issues of the domestic art market. (presentation in Japanese)

Finally, we will discuss how the art market could be developed in Tokyo under its “Global Financial City Tokyo: Vision 2.0”. (with consecutive translation)

Please join us either in person at Kable Lounge in KABUTO ONE, our new landmark near the Tokyo Stock Exchange, or online.

 We look forward to welcoming you.

Venue

●Held both online and offline

Venue: Book Lounge Kable
(7, Nihonbashi Kabutocho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0026)

Online: You will receive a zoom link if you sign up as joining online.

Date/Time

Tuesday, March 29, 2022 5pm-6:15pm (JST), 8am-9:15am (GMT)

(For those attending at Kable, registration starts at 4:40)

Agenda

1. Keynote speech #1Potential of Art and Art Business in London (10min)

2. Keynote speech #2Current State of the Japanese Art Market and Issues

(10min)

Mr. Tai Iguchi, CEO of TRiCERA, Inc. (presentation in Japanese)

3. Panel Discussion　We will discuss the following questions(with consecutive translation)

1. Do we find art where the wealthy congregate or do the wealthy congregate where there is art?
2. Can NFT change the art market?
3. How can art become an investment asset class and how does art add value to a financial city?

Registration

Please register from here

Speakers

Dennis Layton, Founder & CEO, Ikon Exchange, McKinsey and Company, Senior Advisor

In March 2021, Dennis founded Ikon Exchange which is a platform for buying and selling registered shares in fine art. He is one of Europe’s most influential organization strategists and a widely cited thought leader on multiple organization/ human capital topics including complexity, cost reduction, agile organizations, performance management, cyber-security, the future of work, and diversity. He also has extensive financial services industries experience.

<CAREER> Jul 2019-Mar 2021 OLIVER WYMAN Partner, Global Leadership Team Member. Mar 2017-June 2019 EY, LONDON Partner, Deputy Global Leader, People Advisory Services Deputy Global Leader of EY’s $1.5b People Advisory Services business.
Mar 2006-Feb 2017 MCKINSEY AND COMPANY, LONDON Partner
Leader of McKinsey’s Organization Practice in the UK & Ireland with a focus on Human Capital and Performance Transformation.
Oct 2005- Mar 2006 MCKINSEY AND COMPANY Consultant

Tai Iguchi, CEO of TRiCERA, Inc.

After graduating from university, he joined the long-established audio equipment manufacturing industry and started his career at its Asia Pacific headquarters.
He changed jobs to Siemens Co., Ltd., engaged in ordering and receiving medical equipment, and worked hard to introduce the system as a project lead.
After that, he joined Nike Japan Co., Ltd. in 2015 and became a manager in charge of the supply chain of directly managed stores in Japan in 2017, participated in global projects, and launched and executed several new projects in Japan.
On November 1, 2018, he established TRiCERA, Inc.

Moderator

mumu Makinose　JIAM Senior Expert

After joining the Bank of Tokyo, he worked at the Foreign Exchange Fund Department, Frankfurt and London branches. He is in charge of foreign exchange transactions and financial development. He is a major electronics manufacturer and he was in charge of finance and business planning in London, headquarters and Shanghai. Through these duties, he has experience in international financial matters from both financial institutions and companies.

Currently, at the Fukuoka City Global Startup Center (“GSC”), he is in charge of overseas expansion of Fukuoka Startup companies and soft landing of overseas startups to Fukuoka. He has also joined JIAM since January 2022.

Registration

Please register from here

JIAM webinar:  the evolving landscape of the wealth management industry and digitalization

「ウェルスマネジメント・ビジネスの潮流とデジタル化」

Detail

Date and time:  1st Sep 4:00pm-5:30pm

Delivery format:  Zoom 

Language: Japanese and English (no simultaneous interpretation)

Agenda

1. Development in the global wealth management industry. (In English)　　　Seo Young Lee, Partner, Oliver Wyman
2. The importance of engaging the mass affluent in Japan and how IFAs can help. (In Japanese)　　　keiichi Ohara, CEO of Japan Asset Management Platform (JAMP)
3. How the latest digital technology can change the interaction between WM and clients ~ AI and hyper-personalisation. (In Japanese)　 　　Naoyuki Honda, Japan Tier 1 sales Head, InvestCloud
4. Panel discussion 
5. Closing

Registration

Please registration from here : https://jiam.typeform.com/to/mxW0kGdi

Speakers

Seo Young Lee

Partner, Head of North Asia (Representative Director, Oliver Wyman Group K.K.)
Head of Corporate & Institutional Banking, Asia-Pacific Region

Seo Young Lee is a Partner based in Tokyo and serves the dual role as Head of Oliver Wyman’s North Asia region and as Head of Corporate & Institutional Banking industry practice in Asia-Pacific. Seo is a member of the firm’s Asia-Pacific Leadership Team and Global Leadership Council. During his career at Oliver Wyman, Seo played senior roles in several offices including Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Primary focus of Seo’s client work includes supporting global financial institutions on the topics of Growth, Globalization, Financial Resource Optimization, Mergers and Acquisitions and Risk/Capital Management. Seo has over 25 years of experience in consulting and financial services across Asia, North America and Europe.

Seo has been featured in leading media including Financial Times, The Banker and Reuters, and has spoken at various conferences including World Knowledge Forum, Nikkei Retail Conference and The Economist Intelligence Unit Conference.

Keiichi Ohara

CEO, Japan Asset Management Platform (JAMP)

03 年3月東京大学法学部卒業。10 年7月ロンドンビジネススクール金融学修士課程修了。野村資本市場研究所を経て、04年7月から15年3月まで興銀第一ライフ・アセットマネジメント（現アセットマネジメントOne）の東京・ロンドンオフィスで主に事業・商品開発業務に従事。15年8月にマネックス・セゾン・バンガード投資顧問を創業し、17年9月まで同社代表取締役社長。2018年5月に日本資産運用基盤株式会社（現JAMPフィナンシャルソリューションズ株式会社）を創業。

Naoyuki Honda

Japan Tier 1 sales Head, InvestCloud

Contact us:

For further information please contact  misaki.shoji@jiam-consortium.org

JIAM published a bimonthly paper by the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence in the journal Vol.36 No.3 (2021/5) entitled “Japan’s Asset Management Digital Revolution Opened by Alternative Data” by Tomoharu Nakao, Keiichi Aritomo, Naomi Takegoshi, and Misaki Shoji.

Please see below for detailed information on academic journals. (in Japanese)
Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence Website: https://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/published_books/journals_of_jsai/vol36_no3/

You can see the survey on the utilization of alternative data that was the basis of this paper from this article. (In English)
JIAM Alternative data survey 

In 2020 to the end of Q3, Japanese hedge funds generated an absolute return of over 5% while the MSCI Japan index was still in negative territory according to a survey by Sussex Partners, a Zurich/London based investment advisory boutique. Despite their impressive track record, the sector remains relatively unknown.
This webinar will deep dive into the Japanese Hedge Fund Industry and its source of strength and explore how this sector can be developed further and promoted to the global investor community.

Patrick Ghali, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Sussex Partners (Zurich/London) will talk through the survey by AlphaWeek and Sussex Partners to unveil the Japanese Hedge Fund industry. His talk will be followed by talks on recent initiatives in Tokyo to boost the asset management sector (Akika Hamakawa, FinCity.Tokyo) and on how emerging Japanese fund managers can sharpen their alpha generation capacity further (Chee Hwee Seah, Enfusion). The speakers will then discuss with representatives from AIMA Japan (Nick Silver and Shin Shiraki) the findings of the survey, observations on this sector and how it can grow further.

Agenda

Part 1: Why Japanese Hedge Funds? Introduction of Japan Hedge Fund Survey and other observations on the industry – Patrick Ghali, Sussex Partners

Part 2:Improving the environment to diversify Tokyo’s Asset Management Ecosystem – initiatives by FinCity.Tokyo – Akika Hamakawa, FinCity.Tokyo

Part 3: Sharpening the alpha generation capabilities further – Chee Hwee Seah, Enfusion

Part 4:Panel Discussion

Registration

https://jiam.typeform.com/to/urlaXqWS

Where

Zoom webinar （free event) The zoom link will be informed to participants ahead of the event.

When

17:00-18:15 (JST) , Wed 14 April 2021

Speakers

Chee Hwee  Seah Head of Singapore, Enfusion

Chee Hwee Seah has 20+ years of experience in the Financial Technology industry and specializes in the Emerging Manager’s sector for Enfusion. In his career, he has been successfully helping many asset and fund managers to achieve operational alpha and elevate performance with different strategic solutions.

Panelists

Nick Silver Managing Director, Head of Equity Division, Credit Suisse Securities Japan

Nick Silver is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse in the Asia Pacific Division, based in Tokyo. He is Head of Equities, Japan and responsible for spearheading the growth of overall Equities franchise, across Sales, Execution, Prime and Research, in Japan. Nick joined Credit Suisse in 2018 from Deutsche Bank, where he was Head of Prime Finance Client Financing and Co-Head of Equity Execution, Asia Pacific. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne. Nick Silver has a deep knowledge of Asia’s equity markets and equity financing in the region, having worked in the region for 18 years. He was instrumental in the build-out of Deutsche Bank’s prime finance platform in the region.

Shinichiro Siraki Chairman, AIMA Japan & Chief Executive Officer, Aizawa Asset Management Co.,Ltd.

Shin has more than 25 years of investment experience with private equity funds, venture capital funds, and hedge funds, both domestic and global. Shin established Monex Alternative Investments (MAI) in 2004 acted as both its CEO and CIO. After the acquisition of MAI by Astmax Co., Ltd., Shin was a director and CIO for Astmax Asset Management Limited.
He currently also serves on the Board of Directors of Aizawa Securities, TSE1 listed 102 years old security house and Asuka Asset Management Ltd, one of the oldest hedge fund managers in Japan.

Prior to this, Shin was in charge of alternative investments at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ.Shin was one of the founding members of AIMA Japan, established in 2001. Shin serves as the chairman of its executive committee. Shin received his BA in Economics from Keio University and an MSc in Finance from London Business School. He is the author of a book titled “All about Investment Funds (Kinzai)”, published in 2006 and revised in 2014.

JIAM is pleased to have concluded an MOU with IA Engine which is a digitization accelerator program run by The Investment Association (UK).

This goes back to our meeting with IA Engine in London back in January. We were pleased to discover that IA Engine and JIAM shared similar aspirations in the digitization of the asset management industry and the need to facilitate matching between fintechs with transformative product propositions and the asset management industry players.

IA Engine has been creating a network with overseas investment management organizations named IA Engine Global Partners with members in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha. With the signing of the MOU JIAM is delighted to join this network alongside IMAS of Singapore.

With the signing of the MOU, JIAM plans to feature fintech companies of IA Engine on our JIAM Fintech Square page in our website and hope to be able to exchange information and insights between industry players in the UK and in Japan in bringing digitization and innovation to the buyside industry.

IA Engine’s Website
https://www.theiaengine.com/global-partners/japan/

The webinar will discuss the key findings from recent global and Japanese RIMES Buy-Side Surveys, which uncovers the data management challenges asset managers face, as well as the technology and solutions being explored to overcome them. The demand for high quality data, more extensive coverage, a faster time-to-market and more demanding operational efficiencies is to be contrasted against more challenging market conditions, made worse by the COVID-19 situation. Diarmuid O’Donovan will also share his insights, as an ex-practitioner, to add a practical dimension of leading such transformational business changes in this sharing session.

Date

16:00-17:30 JST, Thursday 19 November

Where

Zoom webinar （free event) The zoom link will be informed to participants ahead of the event.

Agenda

Part 1: Highlights of the 2019 Japan Buy-side Survey to illustrate the findings from 2019 (Japanese)　Speaker – Yoshihide Kisaichi, Manager, Nomura Research Institute

Part 2: Highlights of the 2020 Global Buy-side Survey to illustrate the global trends/thinking (English)　Speaker – Jonathan Hammond, Partner, SIONIC

Part 3: Execution and leadership tips from an ex-Chief Data Officer (English)

Speaker – Diarmuid O’Donovan, Chief Operating Officer, RIMES Technologies

Yoshihide Kisaichi   Manager, Nomura Research Institute After being in charge of developing various information systems as a system engineer,　Yoshihide has been involved in NRI IDS (Financial Information Database Providing Service). After managing the team in charge of financial data collection management and customer support, and transferring the financial data collection management process to overseas bases, he is currently engaged in sales and business planning of this service. Since 2018, he has been introducing RIMES services to customers in Japan.

Jonathan Hammond Partner, SIONIC Having started his career as a software consultant, for the past 18 years Jonathan has specialized in financial services operating models; application, IT & data strategies and enterprise architectures. Recent experience includes the development of an application IT strategy and operating model for a UK pension scheme; the target operating model for a European investments business outsourcing fund accounting and middle office; consultancy on risk analytics, performance measurement and attribution systems as well as advice covering data management & data governance strategy and solutions. Jonathan has an honours degree in Cybernetics and Control Engineering.

Diarmuid O’Donovan  Chief Operating Officer, RIMES TECHNOLOGIES   Diarmuid joined RIMES in 2017 having spent his entire career within the securities services and asset management industry, most recently at Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM), where in his role as Chief Data Officer he was responsible for delivering an enterprise-wide information management capability. Prior to working at LGIM, Diarmuid was Global Head of Data at UBS Asset Management where he was a senior member of the middle and back office management team responsible for pricing, benchmarks, corporate actions and data management. He has also held several senior roles during a 10-year career at JP Morgan.

 

Please apply from the link .

Alternatively, please apply by filling in “name, company / department name, email address” to contact@jiam-consortium.org by Tuesday, November 17th.

 

organizer: RIMES, supported by JIAM

JIAM Director Keiichi Aritomo talked about his views and potentials of latest technology and how it can transform finance for a publication “Fintech Initiative 2030”, co-produced by Keio Univ and KPMG Japan.

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Our 6th Asset Management x Fintech workshop held on 19 December was a really special session to close 2019 and look ahead to 2020 with a presentation on the use of alternative data in the Japanese asset management industry and presentations by 3 Japanese companies selected for FINTECH 100 by KPMG recently.

Ryuichi Murasawa, Director, KPMG AZSA spoke about a survey by JIAM on the current use of alternative data by Japanese asset management firms, vision for the future and challenges facing a widespread use of such data in Japan. JIAM has so far interviewed 10 firms. 75% are already using such data, mostly text data of analyst reports, financial result press conferences etc to complement traditional financial data. But there are challenges that need to be addressed for the industry to embrace its full potential, eg data reliability and safe and compliant use of data, need of specialists and reducing the trouble of data cleansing and preparation.

We then had presentations by Morifumi Yotsumoto of Alpaca, Ryosuke Fujii of TORANOTEC and Shinichiro Kai of FOLIO. Alpaca provides financial market prediction AI solution．

TORANOTECtec and FOLIO are B2C asset management fintechs which are trying to unlock the personal financial wealth in Japan through services which make investment easier and more fun. It was great to have these 3 companies who share the same mission as JIAM which is to modernise and strengthen asset management in Japan.

Some key messages

• Moving away from an AUM size oriented business model widens the possibility for fund managers.
• The importance of PMF (Product Market Fit) for PFM (Personal Finance Management).
• For alternative data, competitiveness should come from after having the data in place, not from spending resources on collecting and cleaning them.