Japan has twice as many listed companies as the world’s largest equity market, and the TSE aims to cut the dead wood.

Japan has twice as many listed companies as the world’s largest equity market, and the TSE aims to cut the dead wood.
Japanese small cap stocks stand to disproportionately benefit from corporate governance reforms which have been a tailwind for large caps, according to fund managers at GMO.
The TSE is pushing for genuine change, says Man GLG portfolio manager Emily Badger.
Japan soars up the rankings and Hong Kong plummets in the Asian Corporate Governance Association’s biennial survey.
Over 80% of active managers are underweight Japan despite strengthening fundamentals, according to GMO.
At the end of last month, the Bank of Japan surprised markets by effectively raising the threshold for 10-year JGBs in its controversial yield curve control policy. While this may seem on the face of it a headwind for the country’s soaring stock market, the reality is more nuanced.
Ongoing efforts to improve corporate capital efficiency in Japan create a constructive medium-term backdrop for stock investors, according to Columbia Threadneedle Investments.
The desynchronisation of the global economy means that different industries are on different economic paths currently.
Fund managers discuss where they are finding the most attractively-valued stocks.
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