Do investors really love Japan again, or just M&G’s Carl Vine? (2024)

Japanese Equities 21 Mar, 2024

M&G’s Japan franchise has grown into a €4.7bn juggernaut and captured much of the flows from investors’ renewed enthusiasm for the Asian market.

Do investors really love Japan again, or just M&G’s Carl Vine? (1)

By Jeremy Gordon

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The idea that Japan’s ‘lost decades’ are over is pretty well consensusamong professional fund buyers in the UK and Europe.

For the bull case, there are plenty of metrics to point to.

Last month the Nikkei 225 set a new all-time high. Coming 34 years after its peak in the 1980s’ bubble, the recovery symbolism for the Japanese equivalent of the Dow Jones index was clearer than the first snow melt off Mount Fuji.

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