Thomas Juterbock has joined as Senior Portfolio Manager at Nikko Alternative Asset Management Inc., a New York-based subsidiary of Nikko Asset Management Tokyo.

Thomas Juterbock has joined as Senior Portfolio Manager at Nikko Alternative Asset Management Inc., a New York-based subsidiary of Nikko Asset Management Tokyo. Juterbock will be a member of Nikko AM's Global Investment Committee and will report to Masayuki Ishihara, Global Head of Fixed Income.

Prior to joining Nikko AM, Juterbock acted as founder, principal owner, CEO and CIO of Fairstream Capital hedge fund management group from August 2006, where he developed a proprietary financial conditions model. At Nikko AM, Juterbock and his Fairstream team of six will seek ways to employ Fairstream's global macro investment process to the broader array of Nikko AM products, while helping to expand Nikko AM's product offerings worldwide.

Juterbock has over 20 years of experience in trading and risk management at Morgan Stanley, where he was a Managing Director from January 1990 to May 2005. While at Morgan Stanley, he managed a variety of trading businesses, including global government bonds and repo trading, collateral mortgage-backed securities trading, and U.S Agency trading. He also worked as a Senior Government Bond Trader at Bank of America and as head of proprietary global relative value trading at Ritchie Capital. He is a member of the U.S. Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee. He received his B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Juterbock said, 'I am thrilled to join the Nikko AM team. With the line between 'traditional' and 'alternative' investment blurring and with the shifting demographics of investment flows, international asset management is at a very interesting crossroads. I see Nikko AM as uniquely positioned to capitalize upon these trends and I look forward to working with the Nikko AM team to help realize the full potential of this new opportunity set.'