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Insights

Three Reasons the Nikkei 225 has Soared to a 33-year High

Japan’s Nikkei 225 index recently reached its highest level since August 1990 on the back of foreign buying and locally driven corporate governance improvements. As such investors’ views on Japanese equities have been changing. In this article, we would like to introduce the three reasons the Nikkei 225 index has jumped up recently.
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News

A Quiet Revolution in Japan's Corporate Governance

[EXTERNAL LINK] In this article with Funds Global Asia, Tetsuro Takase, senior stewardship officer at SuMi TRUST, discusses how corporate governance is changing in Japan, what this means for cross-shareholding, and how this is leading the shift towards more effective strategic investments for sustainable long-term growth.
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Insights

Is Japanese Digital Content Ready to Take Over the World?

Coffee Break Column: Satoshi Marui, Chief Portfolio Manager of the Japan Small Cap Strategy, talks VTubers, Animation and Japanese cultural exports in this piece on how digitalisation is paving the way for Japanese content in our increasingly globalised world.
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News

Investing in J-REITs

[EXTERNAL LINK] SuMi TRUST won Asia Asset Management's award for Best REITs Manager (Japan) for the second time, in recognition of its Japan Quality REIT Strategy (JQR). Find out what Shigemitsu Kurihara, Chief Portfolio Manager of the Japan Quality REIT Strategy, has to say in this recent publication with Asia Asset Management.
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Press Release

SuMi TRUST Establishes New Data Science Unit

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management is delighted to announce the establishment of its Data Science Unit formed within the Research Management Department, effective April 1, 2023.
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News

Market Review for April 2023

TOPIX rose for the fourth consecutive month. The Japanese equity market edged up in the beginning of the month in spite of disappointing US economic indicators. Towards the latter half of the month, the Japanese equity market closed higher after the BOJ reconfirmed its commitment to its ultra-loose monetary easing policy.