November 21, 2024
Japan stock volatility chased away speculators, lured long-term investors #JapanFinance

Japan stock volatility chased away speculators, lured long-term investors #JapanFinance

CashNews.co

TOKYO — On Aug. 5, Katsuaki Nagai, a trading section manager at Marusan Securities, received a flood of orders from wholesale customers who wanted to buy the largest-ever daily dip in Japanese stocks.

Japanese institutional investors’ appetite for domestic exchange-traded funds was so overwhelming that it created anxiety in Nagai’s office. “We were more panicked than our customers” to execute orders, he said.