From downtown Chicago, a former Nomura Holdings Inc. salesman is taking activist investing to Japan's smaller listed firms, betting that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's corporate governance overhaul is trickling down to less-covered parts of the market. Masakazu Hosomizu, who works for the ¥890 billion ($8.1 ...
SoftBank Group Corp. is nearing a $1 billion (¥109 billion) investment in Fanatics Inc., an online retailer of licensed sports apparel, as it ramps up deal-making with its giant technology fund. The deal is expected to increase the value of Fanatics to about $4.5 billion, ...
The International Monetary Fund's latest forecast leaves world economic growth unchanged at 3.5 percent this year and 3.6 percent next year, with upgrades for Japan, China and emerging Asian markets offsetting a downward projection for the United States. In an update Sunday to the IMF's ...
The land of Abenomics is betting on "Modinomics." The demand is so strong that assets of Nomura Holdings Inc.'s India equity fund quadrupled to almost ¥400 billion ($3.6 billion) in just the past year. Japanese investors owned $13 billion of Indian stocks and bonds at the ...
The world's largest pension fund aims to boost and broaden its socially responsible assets after buying them for the first time this year. Hiromichi Mizuno, who helps manage $1.3 trillion in assets for the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) as its chief investment officer, said ...
Following the announcement last week of a free trade deal between Japan and the European Union, Harold Forsyth, Peruvian Ambassador to Japan, vowed Wednesday to strengthen trade ties between Japan and Peru. "The challenge will be to promote much more diverse and intense Japanese investment ...
Japanese firms invested at least $1.43 billion (about ¥163 billion) in Indian private equity and venture capital deals in the first half of 2017, more than triple the $459 million in 2016, according to data provided by Indian research firm Venture Intelligence. Telecommunications giant SoftBank ...
Years before U.S. President Donald Trump began promising to bring back good manufacturing jobs by getting tough with U.S. trade partners, such jobs have already been on the rise, largely thanks to foreign companies now cast as villains in Trump's narrative. An analysis by Reuters ...
Guinean President Alpha Conde called on Japanese companies Tuesday to boost investment in his country, emphasizing the "potential" of the growing African nation with a young population. "Many people living in our country are under the age of 30. Young people in our country are ...
Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. and Taizo Son's Mistletoe Inc. are among the investors in a €25 million (about ¥3.1 billion) venture fund that will back startups developing new hardware products. Hardware Club Fund I has closed its first round of financing, and additional ...
SoftBank Group has quietly amassed a $4 billion stake in Nvidia, making it the fourth-largest shareholder in the graphics chip-maker, according to people familiar with the situation. SoftBank, which just closed its Vision Fund, disclosed it owned an unspecified amount of Nvidia stock when it ...
SoftBank Group Corp. is close to announcing commitments of as much as $95 billion (¥10.8 trillion) for its technology fund, people familiar with the matter said. The fundraising close will be announced as soon as next week, said the people, asking not to be identified ...
