Credit specialist Muzinich & Co has expanded its Japan business with two new hires.
Muzinich & Co hires Akihiro Hayashi as country head, Japan, according to a statement.
Hayashi has over 25 years of industry experience with a focus on servicing, planning and business development for corporate and public pension funds as well as financial institutions. He was most recently at Barings Japan where he spent eight years in institutional sales.
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Muzinich also appoints Tokio Morita as senior advisor.
Morita has 36 years of experience at the Ministry of Finance and the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) in various roles, most recently as the latter’s vice minister for international affairs. He was also a Basel Committee member as well as chair of the Asia and Pacific regional committee chair and co-chair of the follow-up group to the 2015 cross-border regulation task force at IOSCO.
Founded in 1988, Muzinich currently has 14 offices worldwide with a broad range of corporate credit funds across developed and emerging markets. As of March 31, it has $37.1 billion in fixed income credit assets under management.
