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Bei Hu
Hedge funds including Dymon Asia Capital, Polymer Capital Management and Lighthouse Partners are importing the model used in other established hubs to find the next generation of star investors, much like scouts in the NBA or Major League Baseball search for the next LeBron James or Shohei Ohtani.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 16, 2026
Hedge funds hire talent scouts in Japan to tap comeback
Identifying the right portfolio manager or pod member has been described as finding a future NBA superstar from a large pool of college basketball players.
Â鶹´«Ã½ two main stock benchmarks have chalked up annualized returns above 6% in the last five years in dollar terms, attracting international investors.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 1, 2025
Citadel and Point72 alumni to lead new Japan hedge fund
Takeo Serizawa will become chief investment officer of Hong Kong-based Invictus Investment Partners, while Tomohiro Yamaguchi will become CEO.
Â鶹´«Ã½ deepening corporate governance reforms and exit from more than a decade of deflation have rekindled global investor interest in the world¡¯s fourth-largest economy.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 16, 2025
Hedge funds reap cash from investors ¡®starved¡¯ of Japan exposure
Â鶹´«Ã½ deepening corporate governance reforms and exit from more than a decade of deflation have rekindled global investor interest.
Sengu Capital, based in Hong Kong, will start a new hedge fund focused on Japanese firms improving management quality.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 9, 2024
New hedge fund gains backing for bets on Japan market revival
Investors have been trying to put more money to work in Japan, as the country emerges from more than a decade of deflation.
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. logo atop a building at the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 20, 2023
¡®Sell TSMC, buy ASML¡¯ gains traction as China-Taiwan risks grow
Because TSMC¡¯s operations are mostly in Taiwan, it faces heightened geopolitical hazards. ASML, meanwhile, stands to benefit from the fragmentation.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 7, 2021
Nomura¡¯s prime brokerage pullback deals blow to global ambitions
The retreat adds to a list of stumbles for the firm as it takes on global risk to offset slower growth at home.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 29, 2021
Eye-popping returns lure hedge funds to neglected Japanese startups
The moves are being driven by surging share prices of startups that went public in recent years, along with renewed government efforts to promote digitalization and entrepreneurship.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 8, 2015
Hedge funds seek returns in Japan as China bubble concerns mount
While China¡¯s world-beating stock market rally is generating headlines, some of the biggest Asia-focused hedge funds are looking further east for profits.
BUSINESS
Apr 13, 2015
Huttenlocher¡¯s Myriad said to start Japan reflation fund
Carl Huttenlocher¡¯s Myriad Asset Management has set up a hedge fund focusing on opportunities arising from Â鶹´«Ã½ efforts to end deflation, people with knowledge of the matter have said.
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Severe tropical storm Chan-hom makes landfall near Tokyo
Severe Tropical Storm Chan-hom made landfall around Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Tuesday night.
What Â鶹´«Ã½ language rules for permanent residency should look like
Potential health care workers hoping to find work in Japan take Japanese language instruction in Jakarta. Not all applicants for permanent residency should be expected to reach this level of proficiency.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.
Â鶹´«Ã½ brewers experiment with a secret ingredient: music
At Smoke Craft, a craft beer brewery in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, music isn't just a background to the brewing process ¡ª it's an ingredient.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
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