Japan

Asia | 28 Apr 16

Representatives from Australia, Japan, Korea, and New Zealand signed a memorandum of cooperation (MoC) on the Asia Region Funds Passport (ARFP) on Thursday, that should see the initiative launched next year.

Macro Views | 5 Apr 16

What a difference a year makes. In the first quarter of 2015, the top 10 funds were a mixture of Japanese equities, Russian equities, and biotechnology funds, with a frontier markets fund rounding things out.

Equities | 1 Apr 16

European investors did themselves a disservice in February. They sold out of pretty much all asset classes when markets hit (in some cases) multi-year lows before recovering their losses in the past couple of weeks. The outflows mainly hit active funds, as ETFs saw modest net inflows.

Equities | 31 Mar 16

Outflows from open-ended funds in Europe continued apace in February, the latest data from Morningstar reveals.

Macro Views | 29 Mar 16

Low, zero or even negative rates do not bring about the rebounds in growth and inflation that neo-Keynesian models predict, said Pimco’s Scott Mather.