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Daily Brief ESG: Improved Governance Tends to Raise Reason to Buy Japanese Stocks when Corporate Profit Is Lackluster and more

In today’s briefing:

  • Improved Governance Tends to Raise Reason to Buy Japanese Stocks when Corporate Profit Is Lackluster


Improved Governance Tends to Raise Reason to Buy Japanese Stocks when Corporate Profit Is Lackluster

By Aki Matsumoto

  • Overseas investors have sold off heavily in Japanese equities since July, and it’ll interesting to see the trading trends in January, which will reflect their asset allocation for the year.
  • Overseas investors buy Japanese equities when they expect the management of Japanese companies to change and improve their profitability and growth potential.
  • Benchmark investors who have reduced their investment weighting in Japanese equities may return to their investment weighting if they expect a relative improvement in Japanese equity investment performance in 3Q.

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