Tetsuya Takasu

Bayview Asset Management Co., Ltd. (BVAM) is the wholly-owned asset management subsidiary of Bayview Holdings Co. Ltd. in Japan. Formerly known as RS Asset Management Japan, the firm was founded in 1998 as the Japanese branch of San Francisco-based Robertson Stephens Investment Management, a small-cap specialist. They became independent through a management buyout in 2002. Headquartered in Tokyo, BVAM provides financial advisory and investment trust management services to Japanese institutions including pension funds, financial institutions, insurance companies and government-related entities. The firm manages discretionary accounts as well as pooled products including hedge funds.