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Analysis
2 Oct 2026
From Tokyo’s policy calendar to private-market under-allocation and another round of private-bank hiring, the week ending 2 October left a clear message for CIOs and heads of allocation. Japan is again a rates-and-governance story, Asia private markets remain structurally under-owned relative to GDP weight, and franchise building in private wealth has not paused.
Opinion
2 Oct 2026
The Bank of Japan’s Summary of Opinions from the September meeting, released around 1 October, shows board members debating a faster path of normalisation after the policy rate reached 1.25 per cent, the highest since 1995. For Japanese asset owners the practical question is no longer whether domestic bonds exist as an option. It is whether rising JGB yields and a more active BoJ make home-market fixed income competitive enough to matter inside existing allocation bands.
Asset Owners
27 Aug 2026
Japan's premier private life carrier is shifting long-duration portfolios into offshore quantitative channels to protect solvency metrics from structural margin compression.
Asset Owners
21 Jul 2026
As the Bank of Japan’s historic 9.1% year-on-year monetary contraction collides with 31-year interest rate volatility, a sharp compression in net interest margins forces private allocators to hedge against North Asian credit dispersion.
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