Japan

How performance-based pay can drive up executive compensation: A Japan case study

Feb 17, 2021

An increasing focus on performance-based pay and long-term incentives is driving up CEO salaries in Japan. In fiscal year 2019 alone,...Read more

Activism

What’s driving activism in Japan?

Sep 29, 2020

Tim Human

Japanese firms might have expected a breather from shareholder activism in 2020. Given the devastating impact of Covid-19, businesses...Read more

Activism

‘You need the trust of management’: AVI’s activist approach in Japan

Aug 24, 2020

Tim Human

‘You need the trust of management’: AVI’s activist approach in Japan

How has your firm’s approach to Japan evolved? We have been investing in Japan for two decades now. Until about 2017...Read more

Buy side

Japan’s governance evolution continues despite Covid-19 impact

Aug 11, 2020

Tim Human

Japan’s governance evolution continues despite Covid-19 impact

Since 2014, when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe introduced a stewardship code, Japanese companies have found themselves under sustained...Read more

ESG

Stewardship, voting and corporate scandal: Governance in Japan

Jul 08, 2019

Garnet Roach

Stewardship, voting and corporate scandal: Governance in Japan

The introduction of both a Stewardship Code in 2014 and a Corporate Governance Code a year later in Japan has pushed investors to...Read more

Shareholder targeting & ID

Alternatives prove to be big in Japan

Jul 01, 2019

Andrew Holt

Looking back to the Bank of Japan’s adoption of negative interest rates in 2016, this move proved to be the spur for many investors in...Read more

Buy side

Japanese share buybacks hit record high

Feb 19, 2019

Andrew Holt

Japanese share buybacks have hit a record for the current fiscal year, which closes at the end of March, with the trend set to...Read more

Activism

Shareholder activism sees uptick in Asia

Sep 10, 2018

Garnet Roach

Shareholder activism sees uptick in Asia

Asian companies have seen the most shareholder activism campaigns so far this year, outside of the US, according to new data from...Read more

ESG

IR30: A look back at summer 1990 – Japanese IR

Aug 16, 2018

Garnet Roach

IR30: A look back at summer 1990 – Japanese IR

‘Domestic investor relations in the western sense is practically non-existent, but the twin desires of foreign firms to tap Japanese...Read more

Activism

Foreign activists push for change at Japan Inc

Jun 22, 2018

Garnet Roach

Foreign activists push for change at Japan Inc

For the first time in six years, shareholder activism in Japan is largely being driven by outside activists, according to new data...Read more

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Japan

How performance-based pay can drive up executive compensation: A Japan case study

What’s driving activism in Japan?

‘You need the trust of management’: AVI’s activist approach in Japan

Japan’s governance evolution continues despite Covid-19 impact

Stewardship, voting and corporate scandal: Governance in Japan

Alternatives prove to be big in Japan

Japanese share buybacks hit record high

Shareholder activism sees uptick in Asia

IR30: A look back at summer 1990 – Japanese IR

Foreign activists push for change at Japan Inc

How performance-based pay can drive up executive compensation: A Japan case study

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