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Article: STRATEGY: Investors are leaving Japan behind.
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- Fund Strategy
- Article date:
- September 28, 2009
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Japan's outlook remains bleak, with a forecast for continued stagnated economic growth. And with Japanese companies reluctant to shed staff, investors will look for decent returns elsewhere.
Japan does not seem to have suffered more than any other country during this global downturn. Nor, which will come as a surprise to many, did it lag the world in the 10 years prior to this downturn, at least as far as its equity market is concerned (though its economy has been weaker than most).
Asian investors who have been light in Japan since 1986 - limiting their exposure to competitive global players such as Toyota, Canon, Fanuc, Honda and Omron, rather ...