Nobuchika Mori, Leader of Japan’s Financial Reform Not only in the Japanese history of financial administration but also in the global realm, Nobuchika Mori, current Commissioner of the Japanese Financ… 2016-05-23 Noriyuki Morimoto Diversification and Lack of Hands-On Approach at Japanese VC Firms Startups are hard to evaluate, because we can't tell how they will perform. The concept of diversification enters the picture here. By diversifyin… 2016-05-09 Noriyuki Morimoto The Value of Japanese Government Bonds Is the Japanese Ministry of Finance able to fully redeem the massive balance of JGBs? Of course, a scenario for full redemption is probably nowhere in… 2016-04-25 Noriyuki Morimoto The Red Monster and Japan’s High-Growth Era Red Diamond, a novel written by Toshiyuki Kajiyama, was published in 1962. The protagonist of this novel is a man who risks his life to make a quick f… 2016-04-11 Noriyuki Morimoto Japanese Banks and the 1-Yen Search After service hours, branches of Japanese banks start matching the balance of money inflows and outflows that happened over the day. This is an extrem… 2016-03-28 Noriyuki Morimoto The Pervasion of Pseudo-Hedge Funds By definition, hedge funds are instruments that hedge market risk. In reality, however, there are very few authentic hedge funds that manage to hedge … 2016-03-14 Noriyuki Morimoto Buridan’s Ass and Innovation in Management Jean Buridan was a 14th century French philosopher whose name remains in the famous philosophical paradox called Buridan’s Ass. Imagine two identic… 2016-02-29 Noriyuki Morimoto Stamps as an Investment Asset Not everything becomes an investment asset. Even if something qualifies as investment for individual investors, the same cannot always be said for ins… 2016-02-15 You can’t Understand Japanese Stocks if You Stay in Japan Japanese stocks cannot, or rather must not, be seen from a domestic perspective. The value of Japanese stocks can no longer be understood unless you l… 2016-02-01 Noriyuki Morimoto Don’t Predict Human abilities have their limits. We may be able to make a rational assessment of probabilities, but we cannot tell what is going to happen in the fu… 2016-01-18 Noriyuki Morimoto «1…1920212223»