Our Society
What is KUTIC?
KUTIC is Japan’s first student-led investment club, for students who want to do more research, learn more about finance, build up a portfolio of skills, or kickstart their career in Finance. Our students come from around the world, with undergraduate and masters students in Japan, UK, Australia, Singapore, US, and Canada. We are year-group, school, and country agnostic, and we have students joining from all sorts of backgrounds to write reports, join information sessions, or do research.
34 members, led by Tiger Mizuno
The Equity Research does sell-side research into Japanese equities, to advise the portfolio management team on how to manage the paper portfolio. Students are split into the 6 sectors of Consumer goods, transport, machinery, retail, technology and financials. In each sector, there are senior analysts (senior students with more financial experience), and Junior analysts. Senior analysts lead the coverage in the sector, and help junior analysts to work through writing their first reports.
Equity Research
14 members, led by Luke Sloman
The markets & strategy division is split into two distinct sub-categories, and is led by students who want to learn more about the day-by-day forces that move the markets
1) Market Reports: Members write daily reports on the Japanese, US, European, Indian and Chinese markets, that get published to the LinkedIn and to the website (delayed uploads). These are reports that summarize the daily trading day, and is a snapshot of information that KUTIC members use to keep themselves updates with what is going on in the trading world
2) KUTIC Insights: Members write longer opinion pieces, on larger macro and micro trends that are affecting the financial markets, and more broad economic environment in the world. Themes range from company-specific deep dives (like Samsung), or more wide trends (like Consulting outlooks)
Markets and Strategy
5 members, led by Rin Ito
The relations team keeps KUTIC running, and growing, and is split into 2 main parts. The first is internal relations, which includes keeping weekly sessions organized, keeping internal communications fluid, and help with the interview process. The second is external relations, which help grow the operations through social media outreach, website upkeep, events managements, and outreach to guest speakers.
Relations
Trading
7 members, led by Colin Kuehn
The trading team goes through weekly sessions to discuss trading strategies, and trade mock paper portfolios to get hands on experience in how to manage assets.