Kanako Yabuki

Product Manager, Fund Research and Development Division at Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation

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Kanako Yabuki is Product Manager of Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (MUTB) where she is responsible for selecting and monitoring mainly on Global Private Debt, as an advisor and a gatekeeper to corporate pension funds and institutional investors in Japan.

Prior to joining MUTB in 2022, served as pension fund consultant, fund analyst, product manager at Daiwa Fund Consulting from 2008, a pension fund consulting firm as subsidiary of Daiwa Securities. She is well experienced on analyzing both the portfolio and individual funds, her main coverage was on fix income related funds (including Japanese and Global long-only, unconstrained fixed income, hedge fund, mezzanine and private debt) and multi-asset/multi-strategy funds. She began the career at Mizuho Bank as sales (Relationship Management) for small and middle size Japanese corporations.

Received Bachelor of Arts degree of law from Keio University in Law and Master of Business Administration from Hitotsubashi University Business School.