May 14, 2021
– The Financial Times (paywall) reported that one of the top shareholders in Manchester United and Juventus criticized the...Read more
Japan
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
Sep 29, 2020
Japanese firms might have expected a breather from shareholder activism in 2020. Given the devastating impact of Covid-19, businesses...Read more
Aug 24, 2020
How has your firm’s approach to Japan evolved? We have been investing in Japan for two decades now. Until about 2017...Read more
Aug 11, 2020
Since 2014, when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe introduced a stewardship code, Japanese companies have found themselves under sustained...Read more
Jul 08, 2019
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
Jul 01, 2019
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
Feb 19, 2019
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
Sep 10, 2018
Asian companies have seen the most shareholder activism campaigns so far this year, outside of the US, according to new data from...Read more
Aug 16, 2018
‘Domestic investor relations in the western sense is practically non-existent, but the twin desires of foreign firms to tap Japanese...Read more
