Despite good absolute performance in the Japan equity market year-to-date, valuations remain attractive both on a cash earnings yield and a price-to-book basis compared to other major markets.
Commenting on govt plans announced today
What is worse: running a distribution warehouse in a sleepy part of the UK which is described as a Victorian workhouse, or bribing people to sell your products in two of the most important countries in the world?
Aims to stop firms hoarding cash is working
Recent calls for tighter remuneration rules
As more groups move to include ESG factors within their fund strategies, Baillie Gifford's director of corporate governance Marianne Harper Gow argues analysis in this area is too 'simplistic' and many processes are undermining the research effort
AGM held earlier today
The Volkswagen scandal is only the latest in a long line of auto failures, according to Esmé van Herwijnen, SRI analyst at EdenTree Investment Management
Major Sports Direct shareholder Crispin Odey has criticised the FTSE 100 firm's 14-month delay in appointing a finance director as a "big concern".