Don’t play chicken with the Bank of Japan

By Josh Ausden, Head of Client Investment Strategy, Neptune

Short-term yen strength has hurt the Neptune Japan Opportunities Fund but recent events have only added weight to our conviction that the Bank of Japan will act to ease policy, boosting multinationals’ profits and weakening the yen.

In recent weeks the performance of the Japanese stockmarket has been determined by rolling waves of fear that have emanated from the US, China and the oil fields of the Middle East. This has led to the widespread selling of equities and buying of the yen as investors rush to perceived safe assets in the face of growing recessionary fears. We believe these reactions are misplaced and lack a foundation in the real world economic data, as we explain in detail here.

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