For overseas investors, who bought large volumes of stocks last year, Japanese equities are no longer cheap.
Hiroshi Chano
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LUKE WADDINGTON It makes sense for investors to take profits at this stage, as many stocks, especially the [mainland...
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EGGERT KULS Japanese equities remain attractive relative to other developed markets.
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GUS SAUTER I think we'll see a natural transition from cash and quality investments like Treasury bonds to risk...
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DARIUS MCDERMOTT Clearly investors are not interested in stocks.
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CLAES AHREL I was bearish on U.S. equities earlier this year but have now turned positive. Stocks are only getti...
CLAES AHREL Investors are more confident about Japan. There is a slight wariness about emerging-market equities.
DAVID BOWERS We hope that hedging costs [for overseas investments] already achieved a peak level last year.
VICTOR HSU There are still investors who need to buy to match the increase in the index. That will help longer ...
AKITO FUKUNAGA We will continue to recommend clients, for example, to take Japanese and European equities hedged ba...
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ANDREW MILLIGAN Foreign institutional investors are, I think, cautious to neutral on equities, including those in th...
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NORIHIRO FUJITO In the last two or three days, some of these issues, including steel makers ... advanced very quickl...
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CLAES AHREL We are going overweight in Japanese stocks, which have a strong momentum and solid fundamentals.
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EDWARD MENASHY We think it's time for investors to be cautious about technology stocks,
EDWARD JONES We think it's time for investors to be cautious about technology stocks.
ALAN SKRAINKA When the yen falls against the dollar it changes the appetite of Japanese investors for U.S. bonds. ...
DAVID GOLDMAN There's constant demand for longer debt from pension funds and other investors who follow the index.
KOJI MORI Cheap is a relative term. In terms of price-to-earnings ratios, some of these stocks are still high.
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MICHAEL JOYNSON People are still long-term investors and stocks are still the best way to go.
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GUS SAUTER The fact that investors are chasing commodity stocks on the back of higher oil prices, instead of se...
HITOSHI YAMAMOTO Japanese investors are going into Treasuries. The dollar is going to be very well supported.
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ALEX BERENSON There are a lot of bargains out there in large-cap growth stocks.
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