Steven Towns

Japanese Investors Saying 'No Thanks' to Government Bonds

Based on demand: "The MoF now only expects to raise Y1.3 trillion (US$14.3B) this year from individual investors, down from a prior estimate of Y2.4 trillion, and considerably lower than the record Y7.2 trillion raised in ‘05." Also, there was an anecdotal report that an unnamed large domestic financial institution canceled its plans to promote the October individual investor JGB issue and instead direct clients into one and two-year emerging economy notes.

On Nov 05 12:33 PM user225084-justme wrote:

> >>The Mainichi Shimbun (original in Japanese) reported early Thursday
> that Japanese Government Bonds’ (JGBs) popularity is rapidly falling
> among individual investors.
>
> How did the report arrive at the conclusion made that the bonds popularity
> is rapidly falling??