The JGB conundrum

Thanks to bond indices, international bond funds have had little choice but to up their exposure to the Japanese government bond market. New indices could change that.

No country is more mystifying to outsiders than Japan. On the surface it is a modern capitalist democracy. Behind this mask is a society where tradition runs deep and political and economic power is wielded by a bureaucracy with a neo-mercantilist agenda.

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