Japanese Customer News May 23rd 2015

Japanese Customer News May 23rd 2015

Japanese Customer News May 23rd 2015





● “FX online brokerage firm Pepperstone…was forced to pull out of the Japanese market where local regulators have restrictions on leverage that are not enforced in Australia”

Source: ASIC puts a block on FX Primus Group float, by Sarah Thompson and Jonathon Shapiro, Australian Financial Review, Friday May 15th, 2015, page 37.



● “In Japan, Daikyo is one of the largest builders of apartments and has supplied 450,000 units across 8200 complexes”

Source: Japanese apartment giant Daikyo on comeback trail with Devine, Australian Financial Review, Friday 15th May, 2015, page 37.



● “Lion , a subsidiary of Japanese food and beverage giant Kirin, generates about $5 billion in revenue and employs more than 7000 people in Australia and New Zealand”

Source: Cheese revamp aimed at Asia, by Tim Binsted, Australian Financial Review, Wednesday May 20th, 2015, page 22.



● “I think the services area is an interesting place for Japanese capital. They have a high regard for Australia and the quality of the people and businesses here” Stuart Irvine, Lion, Chief Executive, Australia

Source: Cheese revamp aimed at Asia, by Tim Binsted, Australian Financial Review, Wednesday May 20th, 2015, page 22.



● “Japan’s economy has expanded for a second straight quarter…GDP grew at an annualised 2.4% in the three months through March….”The Japanese have yet to shed fully their deflationary mindset”

Source: Japan’s growth looks better than predicted, By Keiko Ujikane, Australian Financial Review, Thursday 21st May, 2015, page 13.



● “Yields on government bonds of the big advanced economies peaked in the early 1980’s:Japan’s peak was near 10 per cent….Then came the decline. Japan’s rate had fallen below 2 per cent by the late 1990’s”

Source: The wary retreat of the premium bond bulls by Martin Wolf, Financial Times, Thursday May 21st, 2015, Australian Financial Review, page 24.





● “Japan’s version of quantitative easing has supressed bond yields and helped fuel a rally in Japanese equities - chiefly the Nikkei 225”

Source: Don’t get too excited about Japan’s growth, by Vesna Poljak, Australian Financial Review, Thursday 21st May, 2015, page 27.



● “Japan fell into recession after a sales tax hike in 2014, as part of the objective to generate inflation and end the deflation trap”

Source: Don’t get too excited about Japan’s growth, by Vesna Poljak, Australian Financial Review, Thursday 21st May, 2015, page 27.


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