Hajime Watanabe, President & Representative Director, UBS Japan Advisors
Mr. Hajime Watanabe joined UBS in June 2016, currently serving as the President & Representative Director of UBS Japan Advisors, sole direct real estate investment platform in Japan under UBS Asset Management. Hajime is responsible for product development, investment advisory and asset management for the firm’s clients. Hajime has comprehensive experience in property transactions and asset management of various asset types for international investors.
Prior to this, Hajime worked at Deutsche Bank (2009–2016) in property transactions, asset management, and fund structuring for institutional investors. Before that he worked for a developer, Cosmos Initia Co., Ltd. in sales and property development.
Hajime holds an MBA at MIT Sloan School of Management, Master of Engineering at the University of Tokyo and First-Class Architectural License.
UBS Asset Management’s Real Estate & Private Markets (REPM) business actively manages circa USD 117 billion worth of real estate, infrastructure and private equity investments globally and regionally within North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, making it one of the largest asset managers in real assets worldwide. REPM comprises several investment platforms: Real Estate (direct and indirect), Infrastructure, Food & Agriculture, Private Equity and Private Credit.
The direct businesses offer both equity and debt investment opportunities, while the Multi-Managers business provides exposure to leading real estate, infrastructure, and private equity managers. Investors can access our diverse product range across open- and closed-ended private funds, investment trusts, listed funds and bespoke separately managed accounts, and our capabilities reach across the risk / return spectrum, ranging from core to value-add and opportunistic strategies.
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