With a new emphasis on profitability and a strong technology sector, Japan offers retail investors the chance to diversify their portfolios and should yield reasonable, if not astronomical, returns
The Japanese equity market has been one of the best-performing markets this year and during the first quarter, a number of the largest global institutions began to increase their weightings to Japan. So should the upturn in performance be taken as a signal for retail investors also to begin focusing on the Japanese stock market? And if so, what sort of stocks should they look for? I will start off with a couple of scenarios sometimes cited as a rationale to invest in Japan but which we do not think are likely to happen. The first is that the economy is going to recover. Real GDP ...
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