As Managing Director and Senior Investment Strategist of Fixed Income Business Development, Wataru Araiso co-heads the Investment and Product Strategy Department at AB Japan, leading business development and product management for fixed-income services in Japan. He also heads the Portfolio Strategy Office and is responsible for fiduciary duty pertaining to Japan-domiciled investment trusts. Araiso joined AB as a fixed-income product manager in 2017. Previously, he worked as a senior fund manager for global fixed-income and money-market funds at a Japanese asset-management firm. Araiso holds a BA in commerce from Hitotsubashi University and an MBA from the University of Oxford. He is a CFA charterholder and a certified member analyst of the Securities Analysts Association of Japan. Location: Tokyo