Structural Reform II: Political Economy Backdrop
 One of the enduring questions regarding Japan’s “lost decades of growth” remains the degree to which failure to grow owes to insufficient...
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Structural Reform I: The Japanese Financial Sector
In Why Overcoming Deflation Is Not Enough Part III: Corporate Governance, we argued that corporate governance is pivotal to successful structural...
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ANIMAL SPIRITS™ REPORT: Japan Equity Market Outlook - Escaping The Value Trap
Investment Conclusions We are currently "neutral" in our view on Japan in global developed market portfolios but "underweight" in our APAC...
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BoJ Tapped to Taper
In their policy meeting on September 20-21, the BoJ will be essentially admitting that they can no longer pursue 2% inflation rate target as...
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Japan Stock Market Seasonality - Late Q4 Is Indeed Good
Pelham Smithers came out with a worthwhile comment on the Q4 seasonality of Japanese markets. I agree with their assessment of being bullish Japan...
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