Mr Kazuhiko Inaba | Senior Manager
Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corporation

Mr. Kazuhiko Inaba is a Senior Chief Manager at the Frontier Strategy Planning and Support Division of Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (MUTB). Before coming to the current division, he had been in charge of JDR Business in the Transfer Agency Division. His contribution led to the successful listing of The Japan Physical Precious Metals ETFs (“Fruit of Gold” series), which was the first-ever “Commodity-JDRs” issued and listed by MUTB, on Tokyo Stock Exchange in July 2010. Mr. Inaba is currently responsible for promoting the ETFs. In addition, the AUM of the ETFs have been increasing steadily and amount to over \30bil as of Aug 2011, despite the fact that MUTB entered the ETF business later than others. Mr. Inaba is experienced in investment management, having been a portfolio manager of Japanese pension funds, as well as, an equity and bond fund manager for more than 20 years. Mr. Inaba earned his Bachelor of Economics from the University of Tokyo.