Leading authority on Japanese equity markets and the Japanese economy.

Highlights

Peter Tasker is recognized as one of the foremost authorities on Japanese finance, economics and culture. Ranked as the No. 1 equity strategist by Japanese institutional investors for five years running, Mr. Tasker was Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein’s market strategist in Tokyo from 1983 to 1998.

A British national, Mr. Tasker first came to Japan in 1977. He has written a number of critically acclaimed books on the Japanese economy based on his long experience with the country.

He is now a founding partner of Arcus Investments, a hedge fund that specializes in value investment in Japanese securities.

Peter has also been a columnist for Newsweek Japan for ten years and is a well-known TV commentator.

He has also written a series of noir novels featuring the cash-strapped, engagingly jaundiced Inspector Mori, his fictional private eye and anti-hero.

Mr. Tasker won an open scholarship to Balliol College (Oxford University) where he read English Literature and subsequently Law. He is fluent in Japanese.

Credentials

• Columnist for 10 years, Newsweek Japan
• Former financial strategist, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson
• Founder, Arcus Investment
• Voted #1 analyst in Japan by the Japanese community five years running

Books

Japan In Play (1999)
Japan 2020 (1997)
Can Japan Survive? (1994)
Restructuring Japan (1993)
The End of the Japanese Golden Era (1992)
The Japanese: Portrait of a Nation (1988)
Inside Japan (1987)

Noir novels

Dragon Dance (2003)
Samurai Boogie (1999)
The Buddha Kiss (1997)
Silent Thunder (1992)