Montreal-headquartered asset manager Fiera Capital is accelerating its regulated services offering in Japan with the appointment of a new chief operating officer and chief compliance officer, Japan.
Fiera Capital
has appointed Takafumi Sudo (pictured) as chief operating
officer and chief compliance officer of Japan, Fiera Capital
(Asia), effective immediately.
Drawing on over three decades of experience in the asset
management industry, including compliance, management, trading
and risk management at Nomura Asset Management, Sudo will be
responsible for all aspects of Fiera’s regulatory and corporate
compliance in Japan. He will report to Ranulph Day, head of
compliance EMEA and Asia, and CJ Morrell, head of Japan.
Sudo”s newly-created role will support Fiera’s efforts to
obtain regulatory approval to conduct Type II Financial
Instruments Business activities in Japan, supplementary to its
existing activities conducted under a limited regulatory
framework.
Prior to joining Fiera, Sudo spent nearly 30 years at Nomura
Asset Management, one of Japan’s largest asset management
companies, the firm said in a statement. Most recently, he
was senior compliance manager there, managing cross-border
compliance matters relating to the firm’s international
operations. He later acted as chief compliance officer at UI
Japan, the Japan office of UI Group, an investment, development
and asset management firm involved with industrial real
estate.
“His appointment represents a significant step in expanding our
offering to institutional, wholesale and financial intermediary
clients in Japan, meeting a growing demand for specialist, highly
customisable solutions across both public and private
markets,” Morrell said.
Building on nearly 25-years of operating in Singapore, Hong
Kong and Korea, the expansion of Fiera’s Japanese offering across
its public and private markets strategies allows the company to
increase its focus on the country amid a period of economic
reform. It follows the appointment of John Cappetta as head of
Asia excluding Japan and Korea in October 2024 and Morrell as
head of Japan in April 2024, supporting the wider rollout of the
company’s regionalised distribution model.
“Fiera’s nearly 25-year track record of operation across Asian
markets, as well as its capabilities across the full suite of
private and public markets, means it is well placed to capture
growing appetite among Japanese clients for diversified
investments,” Sudo said.
Headquartered in Montreal, Fiera Capital, with its affiliates in
various jurisdictions, has offices in over a dozen cities around
the world, including Tokyo, New York, London, and Hong Kong. It
has more than $116 billion in assets under management (AuM)
as at 31 March 2025.
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