Japan provides negative returns to investors over a 10-year period
A number of Japanese assets are among the most volatile investments over the past 10 years in Premier Fund Managers' updated performance and volatility tables for 2003. Far East ex-Japan and Japanese Smaller Company investment trusts are in the most volatile category of investments, while Japan general funds and investment trusts and the Nikkei 225 index are in the worst-performing category. The tables grade the main investment sectors from one to 10 in terms of annual returns and volatility, judged as standard deviation from June 1993 to June 2003 over the past 10 years. Money market a...
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