Yoshio Takahashi

Provides brokerage services

BlackRock Japan is an active, research-oriented manager that combines local expertise with research shared globally within the group. Their investments favor foreign fixed-income, complemented by domestic equity and yen-denominated bonds. Foreign equity portfolios target companies in growth countries such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China. They also focus on companies involved in environmental issues and on those developing technology to reduce carbon emissions. BlackRock Japan follows a bottom-up process based on fundamental analysis to invest in medium- and small-cap Japanese companies.