Lack of Term Premium Continues to Cost Japanese Banks with Limited Financial Flexibility
The Bank of Japan has just released its semiannual assessment on the financial system with an explicit focus on the negative interest rate...
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The Holy Grail of Reflation: "from Savings to Investment"
Recent large government privatisations (Japan Post and JR Kyushu) have brought with it a positive tendency, as we pointed out in The Reflationary...
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Structural Reform III: Evidence of Bad Luck over Poor Policy
Room for small hope amid bleak Japanese policy reform recordUntil now, our analysis of Japanese structural reform, centred upon raising Japanese...
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ANIMAL SPIRITS™ REPORT: Korea Equity Strategy - Overweight as Earnings Hit the Sweet Spot
Investment Conclusions - Tactical View (3-6 Months) Animal Spirits has an "overweight" stance on Korean equities. Animal Spirits suggested...
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Risk: Dealing With Known-Unknowns
As any parent will confirm, teenagers know one thing. Unfortunately, it is “every”-thing. The rest of the population, by contrast, recognizes and...
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