Richard A. Werner, Managing Director and Chief Strategist
of Profit Research Center Ltd., was born in 1967 in Bavaria, Germany.
He obtained a B.Sc. (Economics) from the London School of Economics
and a D.Phil. in Economics from the University of Oxford. He also
studied and researched at the University of Wales and the University
of Tokyo.
Richard has almost twenty years of experience in the financial sector,
including as Chief Economist at Jardine Fleming Securities (Asia)
Ltd. as asset allocation committee member of one of Japan's largest
corporate pension funds, hedge fund advisor, and researcher at the
Asian Development Bank, the Japanese Ministry of Finance, the Bank
of Japan, the Japan Development Bank, the Nomura Research Institute
and the Institute of Economics and Statistics at the University
of Oxford.
He has been advisor to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's Central
Bank Reform Research Group and served on several Ministry of Finance
advisory panels.
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Richard has been teaching finance at universities in Japan and
the UK since 1997 and is currently Professor of International Banking
at the School of Management, University of Southampton. He is known
for his asset allocation and market forecasting models that are
based on central bank and bank credit creation. In October 1991,
he published his first major report on the Japanese economy, The
Great Yen Illusion, which warned that Japanese banks were on
the verge of bankruptcy and a historic recession was likely in Japan.
He was voted as one of Japan's top economists by investor surveys
in the 1990s conducted by the Institutional Investor magazine, the
Greenwich Survey and the Japanese Economist.
His recent books Princes of the Yen and New Paradigm in
Macroeconomics won wide acclaim. Princes of the Yen became
a No. 1 general bestseller in Japan. Richard is widely quoted in
the media and sought as public speaker. Investors find his work
original, lucid and indispensable for decision-making.
You can watch an interview given to Bloomberg Television in April
2007 (split into Part
I and Part
II).
Richard has been quoted in, or has written for, The Nihon Keizai
Shimbun (Nikkei), The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The
Economist, Newsweek, The Financial Times, Forbes, Reuters, The Asahi
Shinbun, Toyo Keizai, The Business Times, The Straits Times, The
Mainichi Shinbun, The Daily Yomiuri, The Keizai Seminar Magazine,
The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Finanzen
& Wirtschaft, Finanzen, Time, Nikkei Weekly, Bloomberg, AP Dow
Jones, South China Morning Post, Asian Business News, CNBC, CNN,
NHK, Asahi TV, TV Tokyo, as well as various other international
newspapers, newswires, magazines and television channels. He has
hosted his own weekly TV show, 'Different Views', on Channel J,
cable television (available through NHK World).
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