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The Search for Elusive Outperforming Active Funds in Japan
As readers of our SPIVA® Scorecards know, beating the market is difficult. Finding those few managers capable of doing so consistently may be even harder. Of the 933 active equity funds domiciled in Japan, more than 80% underperformed their respective benchmarks in 2025.1 Yet even among the minority that did outperform, the bigger question remains:…
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The Takaichi Trade: How Dispersion Shaped Japanese Active Funds’ Fortunes
Amid a strong year for global equities in 2025, the latest SPIVA® Japan Scorecard showed that most active funds in Japan struggled to outperform their assigned benchmarks. An interesting finding in the report was the striking difference in relative performance between actively managed Japanese Large-Cap funds and Japanese Mid-/Small-Cap funds. Just 49% of Japanese Large-Cap…
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SPIVA Japan Scorecard 2023: Misfortune for Japanese Stock Pickers
Since the first publication of the S&P Indices Versus Active (SPIVA®) U.S. Scorecard in 2002, S&P Dow Jones Indices has regularly reported on the relative performance of actively managed funds versus benchmark indices across an increasing number of global fund markets and fund categories.1 The SPIVA Japan Scorecard has been tracking the performance of active…
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