Takashi Ito – ARGA Investment Management
Mr. Ito is a member of the Emerging Markets Equity Strategy’s Portfolio Construction Team and a Global Business Analyst at ARGA. Mr Ito joined ARGA in November, 2012. He was formerly Director of Business Development at Vestec, a Canadian voice-recognition company. Prior to joining Vestec in 2011, he founded Highview Research which advised the Silverstone Fund, a global long-short, market-neutral fund focused on the automotive sector. Based in Tokyo from 2004 to 2011, Mr. Ito was responsible for the Silverstone Fund’s Asian and Japanese investments, and designed processes for risk control and position sizing. The Silverstone Fund was nominated for Best Global Equity Fund award by London’s Eurohedge in 2008. Mr. Ito also covered global/Japanese consumer durable and capital goods companies at UBS Global Asset Management and Citigroup Asset Management. Mr. Ito graduated from Sophia University with a degree in International Economics in 1993 and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.