Japanese Government Encourages Investing Over Saving

The Japanese are savers. Germans are savers. Americans are spenders…investors. Does investing count as spending?

The Japanese government is now encouraging Japanese individuals to invest more, save less. The strategy seems to be working.

At the end of June, investment trusts accounted for 3.7% of financial assets of Japanese. The US is at 13.8% and Germany is 12.1%.

The most popular funds for investment are those in foreign-currency assets.

Are investors reading this?

The Japanese have a bus load of money. Next year, baby boomers start mandatory retirement in droves and analysts are predicting that these retirees will want to invest more…in overseas funds?

Would your investment firm like to have some of that Japanese investment?