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Mr. Masanao is a managing director in the Tokyo office and head of portfolio management Japan. He is also a core member of PIMCO's Asia-Pacific Portfolio Committee, responsible for the region's macroeconomic and investment analysis. Mr. Masanao joined PIMCO in 2001 as a global portfolio manager in the Newport Beach office and has been based in Tokyo since 2002, managing global and Japanese portfolios. Prior to joining PIMCO, he was an executive director and senior portfolio manager at Goldman Sachs Asset Management in London. He was also with Sumitomo Bank as a proprietary trader in London and a credit analyst in Osaka. He has 23 years of investment experience and holds an MBA from Boston University. He also holds a master's degree and an undergraduate degree, both in engineering, from Osaka University.

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April 2013 PIMCO Cyclical Outlook for Asia: How Leadership Changes Are Shaping Asia’s Outlook
Homegrown factors will play an important role in shaping the economic outlook in Asia.
March 2013 Whatever It Takes in Japan? It Takes an ‘Audacious’ Monetary Policy!
The Bank of Japan under Governor Kuroda’s leadership will make an important ideological shift to “targeting inflation,” a U-turn from “tolerating deflation” over the last decade or so.​
December 2012 ​PIMCO’s Cyclical Outlook for Asia: Awaiting the Policy Breakthrough
​The cyclical economic outlook for 2013 is unusually dependent upon whether we see a structural policy breakthrough somewhere in the world.
September 2012 PIMCO Cyclical Outlook for Asia: Structural Slowdown Shaping Near-Term Growth Dynamics
Longer-term secular forces are increasingly shaping cyclical economic outcomes in Asia.
June 2012 Asia's Role in Global Economic and Portfolio Rebalancing
Governments, households and businesses in Asia are making choices that are critical for the future of the global economy.

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