Fortress Investment Group has appointed Yuko Umino as Head of Private Wealth Solutions for Japan and Harry Bush as Head of Private Wealth Solutions for EMEA, marking the expansion of its Private Wealth Solutions business beyond the U.S. and Latin America.
Umino and Bush will lead the development and distribution of Fortress private-market investment products in their respective regions and report to Adam Bobker and Nils Wilson, Global Co-Heads of Private Wealth Solutions.
Fortress launched its Private Wealth Solutions business in 2022. The platform provides high-net-worth investors with evergreen investment products across credit, real estate, and net lease strategies.
Umino is based in Tokyo and joined Fortress in March 2026 from PIMCO Japan, where she served as Senior Vice President in the Japan Global Wealth Management team. She has more than 25 years of Japanese financial services experience and began her career in fixed-income institutional sales at J.P. Morgan Securities Japan.
Bush is based in London and joins Fortress from Nuveen, where he was Head of EMEA Strategic Accounts and helped build the firm’s UK wealth business with an emphasis on private markets. He previously held UK wholesale and wealth distribution positions at Allianz Global Investors and Neptune Investment Management, now Liontrust Asset Management.
Fortress said Japan and Europe remain relatively underpenetrated investment markets, with cash and deposits accounting for approximately half of household wealth in Japan and about 40% in Europe, compared with less than 10% in the U.S.
Fortress Private Wealth Solutions products will be distributed through relationships with wirehouses, private banks, registered investment advisers, and independent broker-dealers. Fortress manages approximately $55 billion in assets.
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“Capital flows in wealth are being reshaped by a powerful confluence of factors: a generational transfer of wealth, the increasing mobilization of household savings, pension reforms in markets across the globe, broader access to private markets products, and rapid technological advances in financial services. Yuko and Harry bring the local market knowledge and experience that we believe a credible wealth franchise depends on, and we’re excited to welcome them to our team.”
Adam Bobker, Global Co-Head of Private Wealth Solutions at Fortress
“As reforms and innovation are beginning to spur changes in how individuals invest their savings in Europe and Japan, we believe that now is a strong entry point for our business in these markets. Through Yuko’s and Harry’s dedicated leadership in Tokyo and London, we will more quickly be able to bring Fortress’s investment capabilities to wealth investors beyond our existing focus markets of the USA and Latin America.”
Nils Wilson, Global Co-Head of Private Wealth Solutions at Fortress
