FTAdviser latest:JPMorgan trust down 29% as Japanese economy stalls

Story by: Rob Langston, Investment Adviser

Last week’s announcement that the Japanese economy had slipped into recession has focused attention once again on the underperforming Japan investment trust sector.

  • Time published: 00:01
  • Date published: 24.11.2008
  • Published in: Investments

Japan recession turns focus to underperforming investment trusts

The announcement earlier this week that the Japanese economy has slipped into recession has focused attention once again on the underperforming Japan investment trust sector.

  • Date published: 18.11.2008

Japan enters recession

Japan, the world's second largest economy, has officially fallen into recession, official figures confirmed today (17 November).

  • Date published: 17.11.2008

Japan commodities face nuclear winter

Bric plays off limits for up to a decade, warns SG Japan Core Alpha manager

  • Date published: 10.11.2008

S&P expects Japanese equities to outperform

Fund managers expect Japanese equities to outperform despite poor returns in the third quarter, according to Standard & Poor’s Fund Services.

  • Date published: 20.10.2008

L&G says US to be spared slowdown that racked Japan

The global credit crunch will not send the US spiralling into the prolonged slowdown that has racked Japan for more than a decade, according to Legal & General Investment Management.

  • Date published: 20.10.2008

Thames River closes Japan fund

Thames River has closed its Japan fund after a lack of interest from investors.

  • Date published: 20.10.2008

Japanese equities set to overcome hurdle

Jupiter says institutional investors are finally ready to enter market

  • Date published: 06.10.2008

Aberdeen stake snapped up by MUTB

Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation has snapped up a nearly 10 per cent stake in Aberdeen Asset Management.

  • Date published: 06.10.2008

Jupiter Japan manager talks up country's attractiveness

Political stability, strong corporate balance sheets and a strong currency will boost the attractiveness of Japan to foreign investors, according to Simon Somerville, manager of the £189m Jupiter Japan Income fund.

  • Date published: 29.09.2008

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The next lost decade?: Tim Drayson

Could the UK repeat Japan’s 1990s experience of minimal growth, falling asset prices and deflation?

  • Time published: 13:07
  • Date published: 14.11.2008

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Following Jim Rogers around the world

Are commodities the only asset class worth holding, as the legendary investor suggests?

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  • Date published: 10.11.2008

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What could prompt a revival for Japan?

The 17th-century Japanese poet Ihara Saikaku was nothing if not pessimistic. “If making money is a slow process,” he wrote, “losing it is quickly done.” With October 2008 the worst-ever month for Japan’s stock market, few would disagree.

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  • Date published: 10.11.2008

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