About WealthPark Lab
WealthPark Lab — Opening new investment doors for everyone
With the growing aging population, the shift to digital transformation (DX), ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance) implementation and a more multipolar world, the drastically changing environment heightens the importance of individual asset formation. In order to “open new investment doors for everyone,” WealthPark Lab will involve itself in a wide range of activities related to disseminating information on the essence of investment that has been left undiscussed until now.
Going forward, the world of investment will enter an era in which not only financial assets such as savings, bonds, stocks, investment trusts, ETFs, and REITs, but also a variety of assets that until now have been accessible only to institutional investors will be released to individuals through the power of digital technology. In an age when individuals can freely choose and access assets such as fractional real estate, infrastructure assets that are formed on the basis of renewable energies, private equity that brings new innovations to society, paintings and antiques that foster art and culture, and wines and spirits that are central to food culture, we will need new alternative asset formation values that cannot be measured by the old financial metrics alone.
WealthPark Lab will work with all to create a new and wonderful world where individuals and society are more closely connected through investment.
About Kay (Kosuke) Kato, President and Investment Evangelist, WealthPark Lab
Kosuke Kato has held a number of important positions in global major investment companies, including fund manager and investment enlightenment mentor. He is now based in Japan. He once lived in the U.K. and the U.S. for about 10 years and had investment experience in 30 countries around the world. With the conviction that “real-world experience is important, and you and the person you are advising are in the same boat,” he is highly experienced in individual asset management, including financial assets in both Japan and overseas as well as real estate (single-unit, multi-unit apartments, and overseas). He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Columbia University. He is also a Certified Public Accountant, a Financial Planner, and the member of Securities Analysts Association of Japan’s “Securities Analyst (CMA). He is currently enrolled in the University of Cambridge Executive Program (GMCA) 2020–2021, and is a visiting scholar of The Investment Trusts Association, Japan.
