An Investor Activism Uncommon in Japan
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After 31 years as a civil servant, Tomomi Yano began to take on Japanâs corporate culture, and has become an unlikely and remarkably successful advocate for shareholder rights.
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Some mutual funds invest in stocks; others invest in bonds. Now a new breed of funds is offering the chance to own fine art.
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Shares rise by more than 2% in Japan in early trading, as traders take heart from a late rally on Wall Street.
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Many of Jun Ogawa's friends frown on his playing the stock market, but he's not bothered.
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The ouster of the president of California&#39;s public pension fund has raised questions about whether pension funds, endowments and other big activist investors will be able to keep wielding influence in corporate governance campaigns.
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Tokyo, Feb. 1 (Jiji Press)--Foreign investors remained net buyers of Japanese stocks for the third consecutive week last week amid a weaker yen and global stock market strength, a Tokyo Stock Exchange report showed Thursday.  Nonresidents logged net buying of 425,233 million yen in the Jan.
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Tokyo's Nikkei average rose 0.13 percent  by midday on Tuesday as investors sought bargains among  technology firms, but gains were limited by caution ahead of a  monetary policy meeting in the United States.
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PORTLAND, Maine  - Some 93 million Americans own  shares of mutual funds, but many of these people have only  vague ideas of how they work. Here are some common questions  and the answers to them.
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Irregular hors d'ouevres, scheduling mishaps, and the stockbroker's eternal dilemma.
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Hedge funds are notoriously reticent in part because the government requires them to be. But some of them want to speak up.
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Japan&#39;s Nikkei 225 average is up about 0.4 percent by midday on Wednesday as a rally in US stocks inspired buying. Taiwan, New Zealand and Singapore are also higher, but there are slight falls in South Korea and Australia.
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An industry known for its privacy is  flirting with the public, as Japanese love hotel funds look to  entice retail investors with attractive returns.
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The dangers of investing in companies that are out to change the world.
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Phillip Goldstein, manager of a small  hedge fund company, likes to stretch the definition of activist  investor. He's challenged the managers of closed-end funds and  questioned the judgment of the U.S. markets watchdog, the  Securities and Exchange Commission.
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In Japan, that is. The game player's surprising pricing there may indicate what the U.S. market can expect.
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Investment by Japanese firms hit a record in the first quarter of 2007, official data shows.
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Masatsugu Asakawa has one of the busiest jobs in Tokyo these days: monitoring the U.S. dollar's fluctuation against the Japanese yen.