Japan

Hedge funds reap cash from investors ‘starved’ of Japan exposure
Hedge funds reap cash from investors ‘starved’ of Japan exposure
June 15, 2025
[HONG KONG] Nick Bird’s OQ Funds Management opened a Japan quantitative hedge fund in September. Within weeks, it raised the maximum US$250 million and had to turn away additional...
Bank of Japan vows to keep raising rates if underlying inflation accelerates
Bank of Japan vows to keep raising rates if underlying inflation accelerates
June 10, 2025
Published Tue, Jun 10, 2025 · 10:57 AM[TOKYO] Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda on Tuesday stressed anew the central bank’s readiness to keep raising interest rates if underlying...
CapitaLand Investment expands fund with Japan asset acquisition at 30 billion yen
CapitaLand Investment expands fund with Japan asset acquisition at 30 billion yen
June 9, 2025
[SINGAPORE] CapitaLand Investment (CLI) on Monday (Jun 9) announced that it secured additional capital commitments from new and existing institutional investors for its value-add lodging private fund, CapitaLand Ascott...
Revisions confirm Japan GDP contraction, backing Bank of Japan caution
Revisions confirm Japan GDP contraction, backing Bank of Japan caution
June 9, 2025
Most economists expect the central bank to delay further rate hikes, with a majority anticipating no change in coming monthsPublished Mon, Jun 9, 2025 · 09:35 AM[TOKYO] Japan’s economy...
Revisions confirm Japan GDP contraction, backing Bank of Japan caution
Japan confirms GDP contraction, backing Bank of Japan’s cautious stance
June 9, 2025
[TOKYO] Japan’s economy contracted in the first quarter, a revised estimate confirmed on Monday (Jun 9), weakness that supports the Bank of Japan’s (BOJ) cautious stance and keeps political...
Goldman CIO service suddenly catches on in Japan after 10 years
Goldman CIO service suddenly catches on in Japan after 10 years
June 8, 2025
[TOKYO] It took more than a decade of trying, but Goldman Sachs last year landed the first client for its business of helping institutions manage their money in Japan.A...
Japan curry shops see record bankruptcies as rice prices soar
Japan curry shops see record bankruptcies as rice prices soar
June 6, 2025
Thirteen curry shops with more than 10 million yen (S$89,345) in debt filed for bankruptcy in the year ending in MarchPublished Fri, Jun 6, 2025 · 03:27 PM[TOKYO] A...
US Treasury says Bank of Japan should continue to tighten policy
US Treasury says Bank of Japan should continue to tighten policy
June 6, 2025
[TOKYO] The Bank of Japan should continue to proceed with monetary tightening, which would support a “normalisation of the yen’s weakness” and rebalancing of bilateral trade, the US Treasury...
Bank of Japan urged to keep or slow bond taper pace from fiscal 2026
Bank of Japan urged to keep or slow bond taper pace from fiscal 2026
June 3, 2025
[TOKYO] The Bank of Japan (BOJ) received a sizeable number of requests to maintain or slightly slow the pace of tapering in its bond purchases from fiscal year 2026...
Bank of Japan sets aside maximum provision of losses for bond transactions
Bank of Japan sets aside maximum provision of losses for bond transactions
June 2, 2025
The moves come as the Japanese central bank faces mounting pressure to keep hiking borrowing costs, after it kept short-term interest rates steady in its May meetingPublished Mon, Jun...