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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Societe Generale Hires Ex-Merrill’s Okubo as Japan Economist

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By Toru Fujioka

Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Takuji Okubo, former senior director at Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co. in Tokyo, has joined Societe Generale SA as its chief Japan economist.

Okubo starts work today for the Paris-based bank in the newly created position, Glenn Maguire, chief Asia-Pacific economist at Societe Generale in Hong Kong, wrote in an e-mail to Bloomberg News.

Okubo was employed at Merrill Lynch from 2007 to 2009 after working for Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in Tokyo.

To contact the reporter on this story: Toru Fujioka in Tokyo at tfujioka1@bloomberg.net




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