Program on Alternative Investments
Overview
First developed in the United States and Europe, alternative investments are now growing rapidly in Japan and elsewhere in East Asia. These investments are being driven by a range of powerful forces, including financial innovation, industrial restructuring and the relatively low and often volatile returns recently generated by traditional investments.
Established by the Center on Japanese Economy and Business, the Program on Alternative Investments analyzes developments in this important field and identifies key implications for business managers, government policymakers and academic researchers. The Program examines the growth and distinctive features of such major nontraditional asset classes as hedge funds, private equity and commercial real estate in Japan and elsewhere in East Asia.
This analysis is carried out by the Program through the organization of conferences, lectures, and symposia both in New York and in Tokyo. Speakers at these events include top industry leaders with substantial responsibility for, and experience in, alternative investments in Japan or other East Asian markets.
For a complete listing of upcoming events, please see the event calendar.
View past events and download publications drawn from these programs.
Director
Alicia Ogawa is Director of the Program on Alternative Investments at the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia Business School. Until 2006 she was Managing Director at Lehman Brothers, where she was responsible for managing the firm’s global equity research product. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Ms. Ogawa spent fifteen years in Tokyo, where she was a top-rated bank analyst and Director of Research for Nikko Salomon Smith Barney, having managed the original Salomon Brothers Research Department through three mergers. An authority on the Japanese financial system, she has been called to testify in Congress several times and has published extensively in academic journals in addition to equity research reports. Prior to moving to Japan, she worked as a Research Assistant to the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry on a number of U.S.-Japan trade negotiations.
She is a member of the board of directors of The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation and is on the board of directors of MW Turnbull, a London-based Asian hedge fund. She is also a member of the President’s Circle of the All Stars Project, a development program for inner city students, and is on the advisory board of the U.S.-Japan Society Innovators Project. In 2004, she was inducted into the Academy of Women Achievers. She graduated from Barnard College and earned a master’s degree in international affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
Contacts
| Alicia Ogawa | Director | (212) 854-9054 |
| Emiko Mizumura | Assistant Director for Programs | (212) 854-5936 |
The general Program e-mail address is: aijapan@columbia.edu.
