PLANO, Texas – April 6, 2006 -- Mcube Investment Technologies, LLC
(www.mcubeit.com)
announced the planned opening of an office in Japan and
the appointment of Mr. Masakazu Arikawa as President and
Representative Director of Mcube Japan.
Mr. Masakazu Arikawa retires from Sony after an illustrious
30 year career and was most recently the President and resident
Director of the Sony Global Pension Management Company (SGPM),
with responsibility for the coordinated management and policy
making for Sony’s global pension funds and has led many
key initiatives in this role including the introduction
of the Asset-Liability Management approach within the Japanese
context and the introduction of alternatives and currencies
to the asset mix. Mr. Arikawa is a member of the United
Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund Investment Committee and
was responsible for co-authoring the Japanese text version
of “Innovations in Pension Fund Management”. He graduated
from Hitotsubahi University in 1969 with a degree in Economics.
Dr. Arun Muralidhar, Chairman of Mcube Investment Technologies
said, “we are honored to have a person of Arikawa san’s
stature join our senior management team and further emphasizes
Mcube's client centric approach to serving the
investment management marketplace. We have known Arikawa
san for a number of years, have worked very closely with
him on a number of projects, and are delighted that he is
now our colleague in addition to being a friend, advisor
and co-researcher.”
Commenting on the decision, Mr. Masakazu Arikawa said: "It
is not often in this industry that one gets an opportunity
to work on a business concept as innovative as Mcube's.
I was immediately impressed by how relevant their product,
AlphaEngine®, was to the investment manager
and have made it my goal to introduce such disciplined approaches
to the Japanese investment managers. Further, their commitment
to research and furthering the state-of-the-art in our field
appealed to me and where we share very similar goals and
viewpoints.”
AlphaEngine® is a web-based software that helps
make all portfolio decisions using an informed and structured
approach. It allows any investor or researcher (pension
fund, endowment, foundations, central bank, investment bank
research group, fund-of-fund or hedge fund) to evaluate
a broad range of investment strategies for any asset class
and use these strategies to guide ongoing portfolio decisions
(e.g., tactical asset allocation, style, regional and currency
allocation, manager allocations, futures across stocks,
bonds, cash, currency and commodities). In addition, the
client can customize analyses to their specific portfolio
structure, benchmarks and policy constraints. The net impact
to most funds is often higher returns, better governance
and improved risk management.
Mcube Investment Technologies LLC, a U.S. company
headquartered in Plano, Texas, is a leading developer and
provider of decision support products for institutional
investment management. Mcube has a strategic
alliance with ORTEC Consultants, NL, thereby further broadening
the product offering to best-of-breed products in asset-liability
management, performance attribution, index tracking and
risk modeling. The company currently has a number of other
large and small pension funds, endowments, investment banks,
hedge fund fund-of-funds and hedge funds as clients.
Contacts:
Mcube Investment Technologies:
Sanjay Muralidhar, CEO, (spmuralidhar@mcubeit.com, Phone: 1-972-608-9919)
Dr. Arun Muralidhar, Chairman, Head of Research (asmuralidhar@mcubeit.com; Phone: 1-646-591-6991
Masakazu Arikawa, President, Mcube Japan (marikawa@mcubeit.com; Phone: +81-9015008826
Source : Mcube Investment Technologies, LLC