Asset Value Investors (AVI), the investment manager of the AVI Global Trust and AVI Japan Opportunities Trust, has hired Makiko Shimada as an investment analyst to strengthen its research and engagement efforts in Japan.
Shimada is currently based in Tokyo where she has been working at Goldman Sachs. For her new role, she will join a seven-strong investment team in London from March and will report to Joe Bauernfreund, chief executive of AVI. At Goldman Sachs, she was a member of the advisory group in the investment banking division in Tokyo for more than three years. The push for management openness: Why activists are targeting Japan Bauernfreund said her appointment was a "strong endorsement" of the business' direction. "We now have four Japanese native speaking professionals, including Jas...
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