A strong and cohesive unit of respected investment professionals combining more than 200 years of experience and sharing the same investment philosophy. Our award-winning fund management team has a proven long-term track record in Japanese equity investment and a unique expertise for stock selection, developed over several investment cycles and decades of collaboration.
Our sales team provides extensive coverage of Japanese institutional investors
Our expertise and highly complementary skills allow us to cover the entire spectrum of the Japanese market.
Meet Our Team
THE MANAGEMENT TEAM.
Michel Amsellem
Chairman
Michel has been in the funds industry for 30 years.
He has built relationships with Japan since the beginning of his professional career and started endorsing investments in this market at a very early stage. Over the years, he has been involved in the creation and promotion of a significant number of investment vehicles for different strategies and underlying. He currently serves as a director for several investments and alternative funds.
Michel holds a MSc and a PhD (ex-thesis) in International Economics and Finance from the University of Paris X
Peng Tang
President & CEO
Peng has 20 years of experience in the financial industry.
Before joining us in Tokyo, he established a close and long partnership with the firm as CEO of A J Asset Management Ltd in London. Prior to entering the asset and alternative management industry, he worked across Europe in proprietary trading, holding the position of Global Head of Statistical and Index Arbitrage at Commerzbank Securities.
Peng graduated with high honors from University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne and holds a DEA (post graduate degree) in Banking and Finance, a Magistere d’Economie and a MSc in Econometrics.
THE ADVISORY BOARD.
Serge Ledermann
Member of the advisory board
Serge Ledermann is Founder and Director of 1959 Advisors, his own consultancy company. He was previously in charge of asset management at Safra Sarasin in Switzerland, as well as Managing Director of Retraites Populaires in Lausanne. Backed by thirty-seven years of experience in banking, essentially in asset management activities for private and institutional clients, he has held several management positions at Banque Heritage, Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) and Lombard Odier Darier and Hentsch & Cie.
Serge Ledermann is a graduate of the HEC School of the University of Lausanne, of the International School for Banking Studies of Geneva and of the Management School IMD in Lausanne. He also chaired the Swiss Association of Financial Analysts and Asset Managers (SFAA) from 1997 to 2001. He is sitting on the Board of the Swiss Triathlon Federation.
James R. Hodge
Member of the advisory board
James R. Hodge is the President and Chief Investment Officer of Arrowsmith, LLC. He previously, for 29 years, served as the President and Chief Investment Officer of Permal Asset Management LLC which was a subsidiary of New York Stock Exchange listed Legg Mason, Inc. Prior to that, he held a number of positions culminating in Director of Cost Accounting during four years of employment at the New York Stock Exchange. He was also the CFO at Biolectron, Inc. a start-up medical products company that supplied orthopedic devices to Bristol-Myers.
James R. Hodge is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive status) in the state of New Jersey. He earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. with highest distinction from Indiana University.