In today’s briefing:
- Isn’t the Market Impatient for the Companies to Implement Management Reforms?

Isn’t the Market Impatient for the Companies to Implement Management Reforms?
- More companies are mentioning share buybacks, reducing cross-shareholdings, capital allocation policies, and capital costs. However, the ROE of most companies has not improved significantly.
- “TSE’s request” is at critical juncture addressing whether it’ll lead to formal improvements such as the introduction of corporate governance code, or whether it’ll enable sustainable growth in corporate value.
- Looking at recent market trends, investors are increasingly expecting activist investors to directly demand management reforms from companies, in anticipation that it’ll take time to realize results of internal reforms.
