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Daily Brief ESG: “Requests” Through Overseas Investor Engagement Will Continue to Be More Effective than TSE Requests and more

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  • “Requests” Through Overseas Investor Engagement Will Continue to Be More Effective than TSE Requests


“Requests” Through Overseas Investor Engagement Will Continue to Be More Effective than TSE Requests

By Aki Matsumoto

  • In Japan, many companies have large gap between their stock price and their intrinsic value due to issues related to the use of assets and other resources or cash flow.
  • Companies want to use the example of “improvement measures” to be released by TSE in January as a template, so we can’t expect “management is serious about  tackling this issue.”
  • The fact that ROE has improved modestly over the past decade indicates that management hasn’t made fundamental changes to traditional management strategies to address the challenges faced by individual companies.

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