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    What Mrs Watanabe can tell us about how to handle low returns

    Lessons from Japan: early experience of ultra-low rates now relevant to investors around world

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    What Mrs Watanabe can tell us about how to handle low returns

    Leo Lewis in Tokyo and Robin Wigglesworth in Oslo In the early 2000s, global fund managers had to anticipate the every move of “Mrs Watanabe” — a woman who did not exist. The period between 2002 and 2006, when the Bank of Japan’s zero-interest rate policy began to feel like a permanent fixture, was the heyday for this notional archetype of a conservative Japanese householder, dabbling in international markets to plug the gap left by low salaries and paltry interest rates. Other...

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