Mr. Michael Kurtz serves as Chief Asia Equity Strategist at Nomura International (Hong Kong) Limited. Mr. Kurtz has been the Global Head of Equity Strategy at Nomura Securities Co. Ltd., Research Division since March 2012. He covers the Asia region and is responsible for leading Nomura's No.3 ...more

Mr. Michael Kurtz serves as Chief Asia Equity Strategist at Nomura International (Hong Kong) Limited. Mr. Kurtz has been the Global Head of Equity Strategy at Nomura Securities Co. Ltd., Research Division since March 2012. He covers the Asia region and is responsible for leading Nomura's No.3 ranked Equity Strategy team in Institutional Investor's 2011 All-Asia Research Team survey. Mr. Kurtz served as Managing Director and Chief Asia Equity Strategist at Nomura Securities ... Co. Ltd., Research Division until February 2012. Previously, Mr. Kurtz served as Asian Regional Equity Strategist at Macquarie Research. He focused on Asia research, and covered the strategy and country research at the Nomura. Prior to this, Mr. Kurtz served as Asian Equity Strategist and Economist at Bear Stearns Companies Inc., Research Division. He also worked at Idea, Inc.'s global in New York as an Asian FX Strategist and at Polyconomics, Inc. as an Emerging Markets Analyst. Mr. Kurtz graduated from George Washington University with an M.A. in International Relations and an M.B.A. in International Business and Finance.less