The following is the article of Nihon Keizai Shimbun on March 15th.
Sentence surplus coordination by me.
Public money overseas are expanding their investment in Japanese stocks.
Norwegian Government Pension Fund, one of the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world has increased about 4 trillion 8,000 billion yen and about 30% compared to a year ago at the end of 2014 the holdings of Japanese stocks.
The expectations that the growing power of the Japanese company rises are a background with the business structure reform and the weak yen.
The fund inflow from the foreign countries becomes the support of the stock price.
Sovereign wealth funds invest in the stock and the bond in the world and so on based on the petroleum income and the foreign currency reserve.
Assets is large, it's features to retain over the long term.
Norwegian Government Pension Fund operates about 60 percent of the approximately 100 trillion yen assets in the stock.
The rate of increase of holdings amounted to about 30%, well above the rate of rise of the Nikkei Stock Average of the same period (7%), can be seen as the several hundreds of billion yen was new investment.
Which the proportion of Japanese stocks was 7.4% and 0.7 point rise in one year.
The rate of increase of holdings amounted to about 30%, well above the rate of rise of the Nikkei Stock Average of the same period (7%), can be seen as the several hundreds of billion yen was new investment.
According to the Norwegian bank which supervises a fund, it improved the possession ratio of leading stocks such as Toyota Motor, Canon.
It invested in the recruit Holdings which listed being new, too, and the number of the possession brands was 1527 companies and increased by 243 companies in one year.
Other sovereign wealth funds have increased the Japanese stock investment.
Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC Private Limited) increased Suntory food International's stock in the buying and became a next-best stockholder following the Suntory Holdings.
According to the U.S. investigation company SWF institute, the working balances of the whole sovereign funds increased by 16 % compared to a year ago, 7 trillion dollars (about 840 trillion yen) a little to the end of the year in 14.
The Ide Shingo chief researcher in NLI Research Institute talks about sovereign funds, saying “investigating the corporate and economic growing power carefully and the bigness of the support effect with quotation as the loyal stockholder”