Shinichiro Shiraki has over 20 years global and domestic experience in investment banking and investment funds management (private equity, venture capital, hedge funds) and is currently CEO of Aizawa Asset Management, which was Tudor Capital Japan Ltd (TCJ), established in 1999. TCJ was the Japanese subsidiary of Tudor Investment Corporation, a major American hedge fund with more than $38 billion in assets under management, it changed its name to Asuka Asset Management (Asuka) in July 2002 as a result of a management buyout by the founders who were co-managers of a proprietary trading team at Salomon Smith Barney, Tokyo. In 2015, Mr. Shiraki founded Akebono Asset Management Ltd which was also derived from a company established by Asuka to dedicate to private investments, and has now rejoined Asuka.
Mr. Shiraki also serves on the Board of Directors at Aizawa Securities Ltd, a Tokyo Stock Exchange 1 listed security broker company and at Asuka Asset Management.
Mr. Shiraki is a founding Board Member of the Alternative Investment Management Association of Japan (AIMA Japan) since 2001 and currently serves as its Chairman. He is also a Committee Member of Japan Venture Capital Association. He is a Chartered Member of the Security Analyst Association of Japan and author of the book “All About Investment Funds”. (Kinzai)
Previously, he was the founding member and CIO and CEO of Monex Alternative Investments (MAI) since 2004 – a leading boutique asset manager – providing alternative investment products to Japanese institutional and retail investors. MAI merged with ASTMAX in 2012 to become Japan’s largest independent asset manager where he was Director and Chief Investment Officer with assets under management of USD 3.4 billion. ASTMAX and Yahoo Japan have a business alliance to provide financial services using the power of information technology to provide asset management services targeted at Japan’s personal financial asset base of about 1,707 trillion yen.
Mr. Shiraki has launched several funds of funds investing in hedge funds as well as private equity. He also launched and managed a Japanese CTA originally affiliated with MAI, Asuka Asset Management and Mitsui Corporation called Asuka Commodity Investments. In 2011, he became an Advisor of MGM Innova Capital which manages MGM Sustainable Energy Fund investing in various renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. He is also one of the founders of Asuka Green Investment which supports various carbon emission projects.
Mr. Shiraki was Executive Director for Asuka Asset Management, one of the largest hedge funds in Japan where he implemented a Japanese Equity Market Neutral Fund largely based on his graduate research. He has also worked for Mitsubishi Tokyo UFJ where he launched and managed a fund of hedge funds investment business at UFJ Partners Investments in 2000. He started his career at Sanwa Bank in 1993 and traded a variety of investments, including fixed income, as well as investing proprietary capital in hedge funds and private equity funds.