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...Another proxy adviser, Glass Lewis, has recommended clients support both Bock and von Bomhard....
...Many of the businesses now underwrite their own debt deals, lending either directly to companies or against a host of assets....
...Net profits for bank and broker Nomura surged almost 670 per cent from a year earlier in its latest quarter, as Tokyo stocks eclipsed their 1980s bubble-era high and Japanese companies raced to raise funds...
...So Leo, do you think Japan Inc, despite all this demographic stuff, has reason to be cautiously optimistic?...
...points as the weak yen and a run of strong company results led by SoftBank, Toyota and other blue-chip companies continued to boost market confidence....
...US and Chinese companies remain reluctant to invest....
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...Nikkei Inc, which calculates and publishes the index, owns the Financial Times....
...Fellow proxy adviser Glass Lewis also highlighted Botín’s pay rise as a concern in its report seen by the FT, but backed the overall package because of the bank’s strong results....
...A newsletter from Casey Lewis, a former editor at Teen Vogue, has reignited interest in this Dazed article on Frutiger Aero — a shiny, techno-optimist aesthetic from the early 2000s....
...Adrian Lewis, Inchcape’s chief financial officer, said there were several offers for its retail sites and following the deal, Inchcape would largely be a “pure-play” car distribution company....
Lenders in US, Asia and Europe hit by exposure to sector struggling with lower occupancy and higher interest rates
...But if the M&A deals of the 1980s were a demonstration of Japan Inc’s ambitions to take on the world, corporate executives say today’s overseas rush is driven by the need to find new revenue outside their...
...Another former board member predicted that, without the glare of scrutiny associated with being a public company, Toshiba would ultimately be split into several companies — a plan that was proposed by advisers...
...He has made it his mission to significantly reduce the proportion of companies with languishing P/B ratios, to bring the TSE to levels closer to those in the US (5 per cent of S&P 500 companies) and Europe...
...As our colleagues Leo Lewis and Kana Inagaki reported yesterday: Japanese finance officials have privately told analysts that they do not believe the yen’s recent weakening is justified by the BoJ’s historic...
...ISS’s recommendations diverge from fellow proxy adviser Glass Lewis, which earlier this week backed all of Disney’s board nominees....
...Following the recent lay-offs, Nomura now employs 259 people in China, well below the company’s target of 500 by the end of 2023....
...Cara Lewis, chief investment officer at Dentsu, said “things can go viral” as a result of such campaigns....
Opposition from rival SK Hynix puts brakes on Bain Capital’s ambitions to create US-Japan chip giant
...Hiromi Yamaji, chief executive of JPX, now says he intends to go further in making it clearer to investors which companies are meeting those goals, by for the first time publicly naming the listed companies...
...Iain Lewis, finance chief, has stepped in as interim chief executive....
...But we did see one monster move, with the news that Formula One racing driver Lewis Hamilton has signed up with Ferrari from the 2025 season....
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