Mr. Niimi is the executive director of AIFAM Asset Management Co., Ltd that works with a small number of large institutional investors on their alternative investments in Japan. He conducts risk management for the firm’s alternative investment products and also manages several funds as a portfolio manager. He has developed and managed hedge fund type portfolios as well as traditional long only portfolios based on his quantitative approaches at various investment banks and securities firms in United Kingdom, U.S.A., Singapore and Japan. At Mitsui Sumitomo Trust and Banking, he conducted due diligence for the alternative investments, marketed own Japanese equity products to overseas investors,