In response to foreign institutional demand, some asset management companies are refocusing on Japan.

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This is especially so, he maintains, if large American Institutional investors stay on the sidelines in response to a social investment campaign similar to the one that helped bring down the apartheid government of South Africa.

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In response to concerns about conflicts of interest, KBRA submits that its 40% institutional investor ownership ensures its primary allegiance will be to investors.

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EnerNOC provides demand response services, energy efficiency and energy procurement services to end-users in the commercial, institutional and industrial sectors.

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In response, regulators have cut trading costs, are reforming new listing rules and are encouraging long-term institutional investors such as pension funds, both local and foreign, to enter the market.

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