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Akira Horiguchi

Akira Horiguchi
Portfolio Manager
Geneva office

Akira Horiguchi is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group. Akira has 30 years of investment industry experience and has been with Capital Group for 23 years. Earlier in his career at Capital, Akira was an equity investment analyst and covered Japan as a small- and mid-cap generalist. Prior to this, Akira was an investment manager of Japanese equities with Gartmore Investment Management Japan Ltd. Before that, he worked with MeesPierson Capital Management Japan Ltd. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Tokyo University. He is also a chartered member of the Security Analysts Association of Japan. Akira is based in Tokyo.
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