The Japanese stockmarket has been a major disappointment this year. The adoption of negative interest rate policy by the Bank of Japan in January was supposed to have led to further yen depreciation and sparked a recovering in corporate borrowings.
Nearly four months have passed since the European referendum and we have read many refer to the current period as 'post-Brexit', writes James Sullivan, director and senior fund manager at Coram Asset Management.
Potential for success with third arrow reforms
Japan's domestic economy still seems to be stumbling along. From one quarter to the next, Japan data watchers have been rewarded with revisions down (FY2016 GDP revised to 0.9%, down from 1.7%) as well as revisions up (Q2 GDP revised up to 0.7% quarter-on-quarter,...
Japanese companies are in a good position to deliver attractive returns to their shareholders in the years ahead, writes Reiko Mito, portfolio manager at GAM.
New business opportunities created by structural changes in Japanese society are providing higher growth potential for companies and more options, writes SuMi Trust's Katsunori Kitakura.
Richard Dunbar, investment director at Aberdeen Asset Management, analyses if the latest stimulus measures by the Japanese authorities could herald a second 'new dawn' for the country's economy, or are simply another lost effort
Kenichi Amaki, Portfolio Manager, Matthews Asia