Optimists recommend investing in stocks that will benefit from the global economic recovery.
Tokyo The disappointing performance of Japan’s stock market last year could change in 2022. The American Hennessy Funds, which manages $ 4 billion, describes Japan as an “island of value and opportunity”. Sean Darby, chief strategist at Jefferies, is also optimistic. He expects the Topix to rise by around 17 percent to 2300 points, making it one of the top markets.
Despite good omens, 2021 was not a good year for investors in Japan. While the American Dow Jones index rose by 17 percent and the Dax by 14 percent, Japan’s Topix index rose by only ten percent.
The reason for the optimism is a paradoxical pandemic factor that is partly responsible for the underperformance of Japanese stocks to date: No other G7 country came through the corona pandemic with so few restrictions on public life and deaths. Nevertheless, Japan has at least recovered from the corona crisis.
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