Mitsubishi UFJ, the Japanese financial services giant whose estimated $3 trillion in assets under management ($339 billion in the U.S. alone) make it the world’s…
Investable UniverseJanuary 21, 2021
The emergence of 5G (fifth generation wireless) networks has the potential to uncover new use cases, commercial applications, impact consumer access to public goods and…
Investable UniverseNovember 17, 2020
This week, the U.S. and key diplomatic allies in the Asia-Pacific region announced an agreement to jointly finance construction of of an undersea fiberoptic cable…
Investable UniverseOctober 30, 2020
On Monday, Nikkei Asian Review reported in an exclusive that Japanese telecommunications group NTT is planning a take-private deal for the nation’s largest wireless carrier,…
Investable UniverseSeptember 28, 2020
On Wednesday, Norway’s Equinor—the global energy giant formerly known as Statoil, now on a quest to become the world’s leading “offshore major”— announced that it…
Investable UniverseSeptember 10, 2020
On Monday, Asia’s largest drug company, Takeda Pharmaceutical of Japan, formally announced that will sell its Consumer Healthcare portfolio (TCHC) of over-the-counter medicines to private…
Investable UniverseAugust 24, 2020
On Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury Department announced the signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) between the governments of the U.S. and Japan to support…
Investable UniverseFebruary 7, 2020
Institutional and retail investors in Japan will soon see the launch of the country’s first portfolio composed solely of REITs that meet defined health and…
Investable UniverseJanuary 8, 2020
It’s chilly outside (in the Northern Hemisphere), but Japan and Russia are cozying up with a series of recent LNG deals that could usher in…
Investable UniverseJanuary 2, 2020