But after a 21% rise in 2010, his Japan Fund eked out a 3.6% return in the 12 months ended Jan. 31 as the earthquake and tsunami disrupted Japanese businesses.
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The Nomura-Lehman hybrid may be able to hold together for a year or two, but ultimately it's doomed, says Edwin Merner, manager of Atlantis Japan Growth Fund, who has spent more than two decades in Japan.
The iShares MSCI Japan Index Fund ( EWJ) gapped below support on April 4, which completed the daily top formation, lines d and e.
Investors concerned about scenario 5 may want to short Japanese and Chinese ETFs like Ishares MSCI Japan Index Fund (NYSE:EWJ) and Ishares FTSE China Index Fund (NYSE:FXI).
To assist eligible countries in translating the Aichi Targets into NBSAPs before COP11, Japan has established a Japan Biodiversity Fund, while additional funds have been made available through the Global Environment Facility.
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Of course an easy way to invest in any kind of Japanese stock market recovery is by purchasing share of iShares MSCI Japan Index fund ( EWJ), which is down about 1% so far this year.
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According to Micropal, his LG Asian Smaller Companies Fund has been the best-performing offshore ex-Japan Far East fund during nearly every period since it was launched in 1992.
So pick up the Fidelity Japan Smaller Companies Fund ( FJSCX) as a supplement.
The printing presses are on full throttle in Japan as one fund manager put it to me yesterday.
Among the largest underlying components of DWM, in trading today , and WisdomTree Trust Japan SmallCap Dividend Fund ( AMEX: DOO) is up by about 1.1%.
In remarks for a seminar hosted by the Bank of Japan and International Monetary Fund, Bernanke urged policymakers in emerging economies to remove artificial anchors on their currencies.
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Unlike Greece, which because of its size could be bailed out by Germany and friends, with a little help from the ever-willing International Monetary Fund, Japan is too big to be bailed out.
Previous efforts to reform the pension fund have been quashed by Japan's Jurassic bureaucracy, as was an earlier attempt to create a sovereign-wealth fund using foreign-exchange reserves.
Thanks to this deregulation, all fund managers in Japan are becoming more selective.
If trustees were to manage these shares in the best interests of pension-fund members, Japan's stockmarket could suddenly become a lot more shareholder-friendly.
The fund urges America and Japan, the largest and third-largest economies in the world, to end their budgetary politicking.
This fund outperformed the MSCI Japan Index during the post-rebound in 2009.
Earlier, the International Monetary Fund said it believed Japan's economy was strong enough to afford the cost of rebuilding the damage from the earthquake and tsunami.
The best borrowers are also shifting their fund-raising to Japan's fledgling capital markets, with the result that the banks' customers are becoming increasingly concentrated on the rotten sectors.
With financial support from the Government of Japan through the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund, the working group met at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris on 22 and 23 October 2012 .
With financial support from the Government of Japan through the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund, the working group will meet in UNESCO Headquarters, Paris on 22 and 23 October 2012.
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In a series of meetings and phone calls with officials from the International Monetary Fund, the United States and Japan, Mr. Kim gained much needed overseas support for his leadership.
Healthy yen earnings could, if not gobbled up by higher yen prices for imported goods in Japan, and under the right conditions, fund new investments in sales- and growth-boosting activities such as research and development.
Political parties matter in Japan, particularly (if not exclusively) for fund raising and election campaign organization and execution.
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For the time being, however, fund managers have their sights on managing Japan's huge pool of pension money.
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Discussions among the board members accelerated while Mr. Pandit was in Japan at the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
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The fund reckons that growth in America, Japan and emerging Asia could be reduced by more than a percentage point in 2012 and 2013 if the ugly scenario did indeed occur.
The United States should take the lead in creating an international support group for Nicaragua (modeled after that organized to assist Guyana) consisting of the United States, Japan, Venezuela, Mexico and the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank.
The picture in Japan, which makes up about 12% of the fund, is less promising.
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