How Canadian fund managers are playing Japan’s market rally

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Japan has gained more investor attention since Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway bought stakes in Japan’s five top trading houses in 2020 and upped its interest last month to an average of more than 8.5 per cent

Amber Sinha, senior portfolio manager of global equities at CIBC Asset Management Inc. in Toronto, is also upbeat on the Japanese market.

Still, Canadian investors need to keep in mind that the yen is a “wild card” that can impact returns when converted back into dollars, he says. “A lot of the hope for change in corporate governance has started to bake themselves into share prices,” says Mr. Cobb, who co-manages the Steinberg Global Value Equity Fund.

Kirin is a solid predictable business, and “if it were to monetize those stakes, it would be icing on the cake,” he adds.

 

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