Connecting Japanese capital to global private debt opportunities

The 7th annual PDI Tokyo Forum returns in June 2025. Connect and accelerate your fundraising alongside over 200 of Japan’s leading investors and global fund managers.

Understand the latest trends shaping investor allocation preferences, as well as the key solutions shaping private credit in Japan.

Part of the Japan Korea Week

The Tokyo Forum is part of the Private Debt Investor Japan Korea Week taking place in June 2025. Connect with over 400 attendees during a week of unrivalled networking opportunities across two regions.

Learn more on how you can grow your investor network during the week here.

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Why attend the Tokyo Forum?


Meet Japan’s investor community

Connect with top investors, including GPIF, Japan Post Bank, and Dai-ichi Life Insurance during networking and insightful plenary sessions.


Gain a strategic edge in private credit

Understand investors’ changing needs and appetite shift towards different strategies in the evolving private debt market.


Build lasting relationships

Catch up with Japanese investors and global private credit leaders to discuss future portfolio strategies.

What our delegates say

Qianru Yang

Keppel Capital

Well thought through and relevant content. Provides good insight into how LPs think about this asset class.

Ryoko Katayama

Topaz Capital

Very well organized and structured. Great access to the assets’ leading players and insights.

Harald Eggerstedt

Towers Watson

PDI events bring private debt investment and structuring expertise together like no other conference I have attended.

Apply for a complimentary Institutional Investor pass

A limited number of complimentary passes are available for allocators and institutional investors to join the event.

To qualify for a complimentary pass, you must meet the eligibility criteria in representing a pension fund, insurance company, sovereign wealth fund, private wealth manager, foundation, endowment, family office or corporate investment division who are actively making fund commitments and do not engage in third-party fundraising activities or collect fees for advisory/consulting services.

Apply for a pass and a member of our team will follow up with you.

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Registration questions 

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enquiries 

Beth Piercy
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Speaking  opportunities

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2024 Speakers included:

Contact producer, David Stent at david.stent@pei.group if you’re interested in speaking at the conference.

Elena Amato

Managing Director, Community Investment Management

Ian Anderson

Managing Director, Credit & Markets, KKR

Monica Bae

Director of Investor Practice, Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC)

Jingjing Bai

Senior Advisor, Bfinance

Fabrizio Bocciardi

Head of Credit Investments, Mubadala

Colbert Cannon

Managing Director, HPS Investment Partners

Dan Cohn-Sfetcu

Managing Director, FS Investments

Ted Denniston

Co-Head of NXT Capital, An ORIX Company

Jean Diercxsens

Partner and Head of Belgium & The Netherlands, Kartesia

Akihiro Endo

Co-Head of Private Equity Investments, Tokio Marine Asset Management

Marianna Fassinotti

Head of Private Credit, The D. E. Shaw Group

Martino Ghezzi

Partner, Co-Head of the Capital Partners Strategy, Park Square Capital

Tom Green

Head of Direct Lending, UK and Europe, HSBC Asset Management

Fiona Hagdrup

Head of Leveraged Finance Fund Management, M&G Investments

Tas Hasan

Managing Partner, Deerpath Capital Management

Makoto Ichioka

Deputy General Manager, Fund Management Group, Investment Planning Department, Mitsui Sumitomo Primary Life Insurance Company

Dai Ikeda

Deputy General Manager. Alternative Funds Investment Department, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank

Kiyoshi Iwashina

Managing Director, Chief Investment Officer, Noritz Corporate Pension Fund

Hiroshi Jinno

Chief Investment Officer, International Finance Corporation

Tomoko Kitao, Hamilton Lane

Tomoko Kitao

Managing Director, Japan Representative, Hamilton Lane

Akihiro Konishi

Director-General of Investment Management Department, Federation of National Public Service Personnel Mutual Aid Associations

Jeff Levin

Managing Director of Morgan Stanley, Co-Head of Morgan Stanley’s North America Private Credit team, Portfolio Manager and the Head of Direct Lending, Morgan Stanley Investment Management

Andrew Lockhart

Managing Partner, Metrics Credit Partners

Alex Lynn

Hong Kong Bureau Chief, PEI Group

Jon McKeown

Managing Director, Portfolio Strategy & Analytics, Northleaf Capital Partners

Saiko Nakagawa

Director for Asset Management Business, Financial Services Agency, Japan (JFSA)

Maiko Nanao

Managing Director, Investment Research, Asia, Aksia Asia

Kazuo Nishimura

Director, Tasku Advisors

Rob Petty

Executive Director and CEO, Fiera Asia, Fiera Capital

Greg Racz

President and Co-Founder, MGG Investment Group

Jihan Saeed

Managing Director, Head of Structured Credit, Permira Credit

Yayoi Sagae

Managing Director and Head of Alternative Investment Department, Nomura Asset Management

Ken Shimasaki

Executive Director, Investment Management, Mitsui & Co. Alternative Investments

Joji Takeuchi

Executive Manager, Private Asset Investments, Strategic Fund Investment Group, Asset Management One

Yasuyuki Tomita

Executive Director, Head of Private Equity Investments, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

Rafael Torres

Co-Head- Private Debt, Pan Europe, Muzinich & Co

Alexandra Trapes

Head of Private Debt Co-Investments, AXA IM Prime

David Wilmot

Partner, Apera Asset Management

Andrew Wolff

Director, PEI Group

Tomoko Yano

Director, Head of External Management, Aflac Asset Management Japan

Junichi Yonezawa

Head of Alternative Investments, Norinchukin Zenkyoren Asset Management Co., Ltd

Chin Yuen

Research Manager, Asia, PEI Group

Discover your event experience

Discover trending topics

 

Download the agenda today to discover trending topics shaping the Japanese investor allocations.

Want to join our industry-leading speaking faculty? Contact our producer, David Stent today.

 

Raise your profile among senior private debt decision-makers

Build and develop your company’s brand image, strengthen your market credibility, and meet your investment and business goals. Sponsorship gives you:

  • VIP access
  • Thought-leadership opportunities
  • High-profile branding
  • And much more …

For more information on available sponsorship opportunities, please contact Beth Piercy at beth.p@pei.group or call +44 20 7566 5464.

Register your interest on the enquiry form

2024 Sponsors

Institutional Investors at the Tokyo Forum

A limited number of complimentary passes are available for eligible allocators and institutional investors to join the event. To qualify for a complimentary pass, you must meet the eligibility criteria in representing a pension fund, insurance company, sovereign wealth fund, private wealth manager, foundation, endowment, family office or corporate investment division who are actively making fund commitments and do not engage in third-party fundraising activities or collect fees for advisory/consulting services.

Apply for a pass and a member of our team will be in touch to confirm your eligibility.

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Meet our year-on-year Japanese investor attendees including:

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Investors at PDI Tokyo Forum

The Forum is the largest meeting place for institutional and private investors, and other members of the private debt community in Japan.

Check out the benefits of joining the conference and who among your peers you will be joining. Apply for a complimentary pass for you or your team today.

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Why Tokyo Forum?

Meet the biggest global funds

Network and arrange one-to-one meetings with the biggest and leading private debt managers.

Network with your peers

Connect with your peers and understand their strategies and allocation approach to private debt at our networking cocktail and luncheon.

Get the latest insights

Discuss the opportunities and challenges your peers are facing in the market at the investor roundtable.

Explore opportunities

Find investment opportunities across different debt strategies, from direct lending, mezzanine, and unitranche lending.

What to expect?

120+

Institutional Investors

 

35+

Speakers

200+

Attendees

Part of the PDI Japan Korea Week

PDI Seoul Forum
25 June 2024

Connecting South Korean capital to global markets

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PDI Tokyo Forum
27 June 2024

Connecting Japanese capital to global opportunities

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Apply for a complimentary Institutional Investor pass

A limited number of complimentary passes are available for eligible allocators and institutional investors to join the event.

Complimentary investor passes are limited to foundations, endowments, insurance companies, single family offices, sovereign wealth funds and pension funds who are actively making fund commitments and do not engage in third-party fundraising activities or collect fees for advisory/consulting services.

Apply for a pass and a member of our team will be in touch to confirm your eligibility.

Apply now

日本の資本と世界のプライベート・デットの架け橋

2024年6月27日(木)にて開催する第6回年次「PDI Tokyo Forum」では、世界各国のプライベート・デット・コミュニティーが一堂に集まり、グローバルな権限を有するグローバルなファンドマネージャーと日本の機関投資家とを結びつけます。

急激に変化するグローバル環境を鑑み、東京フォーラムでは、基準の設定、グローバルな機会の提示、貴社の業績アップに資するネットワークを構築する機会を提供し続けます。

最も信頼がおけるグローバルなプライベート・デットの情報発信の場「Private Debt Investor」の地位を活用するにあたり、このフォーラムは、日本における主要機関投資家との人脈づくりの場として、または影響力のあるグローバルなふぁんとの交流の場として最適です。

今年絶対にお見逃しなく
プライベートデットカンファレンスシリーズ

「PDI Tokyo Forum」は PDI Japan Korea Weekの閉幕フォーラムとして、東京でグローバルコミュニティと繋がり、グローバル市場洞察力を得るイベントです。

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日本やグローバルな上級意思決定者と会える場所

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Why Tokyo Forum?

日本と世界の投資家コミュニティとの出会い

ゆうちょ銀行、第一生命保険、国立研究開発法人科学技術振興機構(JST)、ブラックストーン、HPSをはじめとする大物投資家と直接デット投資の戦略を交流することができます。

戦略的な優位性を獲得

投資家のニーズ変化と、さまざまな戦略への欲求が変更していることを理解できます。

対面での持続的な関係構築

日本の投資家やグローバルなプライベートクレジットのリーダーたちと情報交換し、今後のポートフォリオ戦略について話し合いましょう。

キーノートスピーカーに会う

松尾 匡氏(左)

10兆円規模の大学ファンドを運用する国立研究開発法人科学技術振興機構(JST)
マネージング・ディレクター
オルタナティブ投資統括責任者

日本で10兆円規模を誇る大学ファンドJSTから、同機構のオルタナティブ投資を強化するという方針に沿ったプライベートデット投資アプローチをご紹介いただきます。

Andrew Lockhart氏(右)

Metrics Credit Partners
マネージング・パートナー

PEとデットの機関投資家のAndrew Lockhart氏が、オーストラリアのプライベート・デットマーケットについての情報を共有してください。

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2023 講演者陣

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このカンファレンスを構成する主要な話題:

  • 投資家はプライベートデットが今後のポートフォリオにどのような役割を果たすと見ているか?
  • 日本の投資家のデット戦略における重点はどこへシフトするのか、またどのようにレジリエンスを維持するのか?
  • リスク調整後のベストリターンに対するグローバルGPの洞察
  • 他にもたくさんあります。

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