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ASSET MANAGEMENT

Antoine Flamarion, co-founder of Tikehau Capital. Nikko Asset Management is in advanced talks to acquire a stake in the French asset manager.
BUSINESS
Dec 18, 2023
Nikko in talks to buy Tikehau stake and form Asia partnership
The deal would involve a distribution agreement in Japan and elsewhere in Asia and a joint venture in private markets investment strategies in the region.
Actively managed exchange-trade funds are set to debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange next week.
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 31, 2023
Active ETFs cash in on corporate reform in Japan
Actively managed exchange-trade funds are set to launch in Tokyo next week.
Nikko Asset Management is ditching its bearish view on the yen, and now has a ¥135 target against the dollar by year-end.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 20, 2023
Nikko Asset shifts to bullish yen slant as Ueda bides his time
The shift in his view highlights potential upside for the yen, where inflation-adjusted interest rates have exacerbated its decline to multidecade lows.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Oct 31, 2022
Weak yen prompts people to shift savings into dollars and foreign bonds
Banks are seeing a surge in the number of customers funneling their money into foreign currency deposits.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 6, 2021
Why China is sentencing a tycoon to death
At first glance, the sentence may be meant as a reminder to naughty business tycoons of Beijing's lethal legal arsenal.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
May 13, 2020
$460 billion Japan fund hunts for bargains in emerging bonds
Bonds from countries such as Mexico, with its multifaceted economy and competitive industries, offer higher rates of return as yields from more developed economies fall.
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 10, 2020
Japanese asset manager awaits flood of money from regional banks
Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings Inc. anticipates a flood of money from yield-starved regional banks that need help reinvesting cash after redeeming government bonds.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 12, 2019
Japan Display in talks for ¥90 billion injection from private fund
Japan Display Inc. is in talks with private fund Ichigo Asset Management Ltd. about a capital injection of around ¥90 billion that would shore up its ailing finances, sources close to the matter said Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 21, 2018
'Herbivore' investor Haruhiro Nakano takes on lions of Japanese finance
In a tiny, windowless meeting room high above the streets of Tokyo, Haruhiro Nakano starts to cry. The rail-thin, 54-year-old fund manager, who looks like a faded former J-pop star, has just shared his investing pitch, which sounds so deceptively simple you may not appreciate just how radical it is: Japanese workers, Nakano says, should invest for retirement using the capital markets rather than letting more than $8.6 trillion fester in bank accounts.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 11, 2017
EGW buys Tokyo office tower for ¥30 billion with Korean investor funds
EGW Asset Management Inc., which manages about ¥200 billion ($1.8 billion) in assets, has acquired an office building in central Tokyo for about ¥30 billion.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 17, 2017
A $165 billion money manager says Japan's stock gloom overdone, predicts surge after geopolitical risks ease
Japanese stocks have been battered so badly that they're too cheap to ignore, says the $165 billion investor Pictet Asset Management Ltd., after the Topix index tumbled to its fifth straight weekly loss.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 30, 2016
From bit actor ‘bum’ to managing $2.7 billion Japanese fund
Takahiro Kusakari went from being a self-described bum getting by on bit-part acting roles in Tokyo to calling the shots at a $2.7 billion stock fund.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 6, 2016
Myriad closes Japan hedge fund as Abenomics disappoints
Myriad Asset Management has closed down a Japan-focused hedge fund less than a year after opening it, after changing its view on the government's ability to end deflation through stimulus, said a person with knowledge of the matter.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 3, 2015
Resona asset unit aims to manage ¥1.3 trillion by 2021 as savers seek returns
Resona Holdings Inc.'s new asset management unit, which opens for business on Sept. 16, expects to be overseeing ¥1.3 trillion by 2021 as households invest more of their savings because of near record-low interest rates.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 29, 2015
Japan Post names ex-Goldman's Sago to head asset management
Japan Post Holdings Co. hired Katsunori Sago, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executive in the country, as head of asset management at its banking unit as it reallocates its portfolio.
BUSINESS
Dec 2, 2013
Nippon Life unit faces fine
The brokerage industry watchdog was expected to recommend that the Financial Services Agency order a Nippon Life Insurance Co. subsidiary to pay a fine for insider trading on unreleased information, market sources said Monday.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 13, 2013
MRI investor meeting draws over 1,500 to Tokyo
More than 1,500 people from across Japan showed up for a jam-packed meeting Sunday organized by lawyers who accuse U.S asset manager MRI International Inc. of conducting a ¥130 billion fraud.

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