Bruce Kirk is Goldman Sachs' Chief Japan Equity Strategist. He has spent the majority of his professional career in Asia, based predominantly in Tokyo and Hong Kong, where he has held a number of positions on both the buy-side and sell-side, including Portfolio Manager at Balyasny Asset Management (Asia), Head of Goldman Sachs (Japan)'s Principal Strategies Department, founding Partner at Azentus Capital Management and Co-Head of Equity Research at KBC Securities (Japan). In addition to receiving his MA (Hons) from the University of Glasgow in Modern History and Politics, Bruce also holds a PGDip in Japanese Language and Economics from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He is a CFA Charterholder and has recently completed his MSc in Applied Linguistics at the University of Oxford.
