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Naoto Hashimoto Energy & Utilities No. of total appearances: 23 No. of first-place appearances: 16 Naoto Hashimoto became an expert in travel without ever leaving the place where he began his career, Nomura Research Institute. He joined the firm in 1987 after earning a bachelor’s degree in economics at Tokyo’s Keio University and spent a year as a construction analyst before switching over to cover transportation stocks. In 1993 the Tokyo-based researcher expanded his coverage universe to include utilities, and the following year debuted on Institutional Investor’s inaugural All-Japan Research Team at No. 1 in both sectors — dual victories that the 49-year-old would claim every year until 2002, when he slipped to second place in Utilities and tumbled to runner-up in Transportation. (In the latter sector he was deposed by fellow Hall of Famer Jun Harada of UBS.) Hashimoto continued to rank in both sectors through 2004 but never reclaimed the top spot in either. He made his final appearance on the team in 2005, as a runner-up in the expanded Energy & Utilities sector. That year he transferred from equity research to Nomura’s investment banking division, but his All-Japan Research Team record — Hashimoto has won more first-place appearances than any other analyst — remains unbroken. — Henry Scott Stokes | |||||||||||||||||||
