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Kenichiro Yoshida Basic Materials/Metals No. of total appearances: 30 No. of first-place appearances: 14 Kenichiro Yoshida has appeared on the All-Japan Research Team more often than any other analyst — a stunning 30 times from 1995 through 2010, when he left Goldman Sachs (Japan) to become director of equity research at Nikko Cordial Securities (now SMBC Nikko Securities). He departed that firm last year and is contemplating his next career move. “After 20 years as an equity analyst and two years in management, I have had enough of the equity research trade,” the 50-year-old declares. Yoshida earned a bachelor’s degree in commerce and management at Hitotsubashi University in 1985, then joined Nikko Research Center. Ten years later he made his first appearance on Institutional Investor’s All-Japan Research Team, in second place in Trading Companies. He would rank in that sector every year through 2010 — but that’s only half the story. The analyst moved to Salomon Brothers Asia in 1997 and expanded his coverage universe, capturing a runner-up position that year in Basic Materials/Metals and second place in Trading Companies. He placed in both sectors through 2000, when he dropped the former in favor of Broadcasting — and joined the lineup in that category the next year. He continued to appear in two sectors each year even as he changed firms, finally moving to Goldman in 2006. All told, Yoshida led a sector roster 14 times, five in Broadcasting and nine in Trading Companies. One money manager II interviewed in 2007 described the analyst as “a leader in his field whose picks move prices.” The following year one buy-side backer praised Yoshida’s “depth of knowledge that can only come from experience.” — Henry Scott Stokes | |||||||||||||||||||
