Market evaluates stock price with the future cash generating ability or potentials of the corporation; companies considered to achieve high growth rate may be valued higher than the low growth companies. Generally, such future expectation is counted as an extension of the past profitability trend, therefore the valuation to the company remains in the certain range.

In the event, the corporation achieve to create a different trend from the market prediction, the stock price valuation level changes dramatically as a result of the “valuation correction”. SOPHIA invest in companies that are likely to be re-valuated, found to be improving its profitability to be in the next growth stage, identified by the positive ROE growth momentum. View to capture the ROE Growth from the fundamentals, focusing on economic, industrial, and corporate structural changes.

SOPHIA focuses its growth potentials within two financial term. SOPHIA focus on:

Yoshiya joined former T&D Asset Management in March 1998 as Japanese equity analyst. He started his carrier in 1990 at New Japan Securities Research Institute (Shinko Research Institute), joined Daido Life Insurance in August 1997, and later transferred to Daido Life Asset. Yoshiya worked with Mr. Kiyoshi Yamanaka (former Chief Fund Manager of SOPHIA) for five years while Mr. Yamanaka developed and implemented TDAM’s Japanese equity research function. He joined the Core Strategy Group in April 2006, as a Fund Manager of SOPHIA Strategy. Following an organizational change in April 2010, where the Core-Growth Equity Investment Department was abolished and integrated into the Growth Equity Investment Department, Yoshiya continues to manages the strategy as Fund Manager of the Growth Equity Investment Department.

Yoshiya mostly worked as Japanese equity analyst throughout his carrier, and he also gained exprience as a credit analyst with TDAM’s Credit Management Team. Yoshiya acted as portfolio manager and credit analyst for nearly three years since June 2003, gaining extensive and unique experience as an equity money manager.