Regal, hedge funds and super funds eye Japan at Daiwa conference

The attendance of some of Australia’s most prominent fund managers and superannuation giants at a major Japanese investment conference last week has provided more evidence of how seriously the local industry is hunting for opportunities in the Asian country’s rising equity markets.

The Daiwa-Japan Exchange Group conference coincided with a record run in Japan’s sharemarket as the benchmark Nikkei 225 index reset highs twice in the past week. The index hit a closing high of 44,372 points on Thursday.

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