News & Insights

Coffee Break Column: Katsunori Ogawa, Chief Portfolio Manager of the Sakigake High Alpha Strategy, explores the promising economic opportunities in sight as the number of foreign visitors to Japan begins to recover following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chief Strategist Hiroyuki Ueno explores the trend of increasing wages in Japan and the challenge this poses for small and medium-sized enterprises.

The Bank of Japan's upcoming Monetary Policy Meeting will be the last of Governor Kuroda's tenure before Kazuo Ueda takes over his position as the new governor. In this article, Senior Strategist Katsutoshi Inadome explores the current environment of the bond market and the outlook for Japan's monetary policy.

We are convinced that an investor could expect to benefit from investing in regional factor strategies, at least in Japan, that reflect the specific nature of each region instead of global factor indices aiming to benefit from factor premium with a uniform set of factors.

What direction will the new Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor, Kazuo Ueda, take in regards to Japan's long-standing ultra-loose monetary policy? Katsunori Ogawa, Chief Portfolio Manager of the Sakigake High Alpha Fund, shares his thoughts.

Chief Strategist Hiroyuki Ueno shares his outlook for the Japanese economy, monetary policy and markets in 2023.

In this article, Tatsuya Suzuki, Chief Portfolio Manager of the Japan Quality Growth Strategy, is interviewed by Akimichi Oi, Senior Investment Director, on the positive changes emerging in Japanese companies.

In this article, Munehisa Matsumoto, Head of Investment Research, discusses how companies can create sustainable value through implementing their corporate purposes into business practices.

The sudden death of former Prime Minister Abe was profoundly shocking and will undoubtedly have a lasting impact both culturally and politically in Japan. In this article economist Takayuki Toji discusses Abe's legacy and the potential impact this could have on the Japanese political landscape and economic policy.