Point72 Asset Management has hired JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Shinji Ogawa as its new head of Japan, as competition for talent heats up in the booming market.

Ogawa, previously a managing director at JPMorgan Securities where he headed Japan cash equity sales, will start in November and report to Point72’s Asia-Pacific head Marc Desmidt, according to an internal memo obtained by Bloomberg.

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