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Japanese equities have earned themselves a reputation over the years as the market everyone loves to hate, writes Trevor Greetham, head of multi-asset, at Royal London Asset Management.

More easing expected

Japan was one of the most popular areas with UK investors in 2015, with some £1.2bn of flows into the IA Japan sector and more than £400m going into the IA Japanese Smaller Companies sector, as investors tried to hone in on those domestic companies benefitting...

Many investors have already written the obituary for Abenomics, but this judgement is far too premature and narrow in its scope.

Stocks with innovative business models have done well

The Japanese stockmarket has been a major disappointment this year. The adoption of negative interest rate policy by the Bank of Japan in January was supposed to have led to further yen depreciation and sparked a recovering in corporate borrowings.

New business opportunities created by structural changes in Japanese society are providing higher growth potential for companies and more options, writes SuMi Trust's Katsunori Kitakura.

Richard Dunbar, investment director at Aberdeen Asset Management, analyses if the latest stimulus measures by the Japanese authorities could herald a second 'new dawn' for the country's economy, or are simply another lost effort

Concerns Japan won't escape "economic doldrums"

Income prospects still strong in Japan