Naoji Masumi Awarded Risk Investment Forum Achievement Award

Posted by Donald Hood on March 27th, 2020

(1888 PressRelease) The Award Honors Dr. Masumi and Naotsune Alliance’s Contributions to Exceptional Risk Management.

Naotsune Alliance, a financial adviser for the world of business that provides discretionary investment advisory services for individual clients, wealthy families, institutional investors and investment trusts is pleased to announce that Naoji Masumi, Ph.D., Chief Risk Officer and Co-Founder of Naotsune Alliance, was bestowed the Risk Management Achievement Award by Risk Investment Forum on Risk’s annual awards event in Japan. Risk forms the leading subscription service covering financial risk management, regulation and derivatives news and analysis.

“As a founding partner of Naotsune Alliance, Naoji has played a critical role in the firm’s success. He is a strong advocate of fund industry changes that have the potential to mitigate systemic liquidity risk, and a passionate supporter of risk management as a profession.” said Arinobu V. Saito, Chief Executive Officer of Naotsune Alliance.

“Naotsune Alliance was built around risk management — it's been in our DNA from the start. Naoji epitomizes our belief that understanding and managing risk is the cornerstone to responsibly investing our clients’ assets,” said Futoshi Miyazaki, Deputy Chief Executive. “Naoji has played a critical role in developing Naotsune Alliance’s Risk and Quantitative Analysis capabilities and firm’s platform. He has ensured that Naotsune Alliance remains true to its legacy, keeping risk management as a core piece of its fiduciary culture. It is with great pleasure that I congratulate my friend and colleague on this well-deserved recognition.”

In his capacity as Chief Risk Officer for Naotsune Alliance, Dr. Masumi also serves as co-head of the Risk and Analysis Team.

The Risk and Analysis Team provides independent top-down and bottom-up oversight to help identify investment, operational, technology and counterparty risks. It ensures portfolio risks are consistent across mandates, reflect current investment themes within particular strategies, and comply with client-specific risk guidelines. The Risk and Analysis Team also provides independent quantitative analysis as part of the groups value add.

About Naotsune Alliance
Naotsune Alliance is a financial adviser for the world of business, a world in which community is key. The company’s memberships, partnerships and associations are chosen with care, and its selectiveness ensures it is connected to the right people and have access to the best and most up-to-date knowledge. Our main products are Japanese equity funds utilizing Naotsune Alliance’s research ability for Japanese companies cantered on mid-small cap companies, start-ups and IPOs. Naotsune Alliance also manages funds with external asset managers and funds managed by prominent asset managers located all over the world.

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