Finally, a new dawn for Japan?

After countless false starts, the tide could finally be starting to turn in favour of the unloved Japanese stockmarket. And this fund ought to benefit.

After years of "fits, starts and false dawns", the tide could finally be starting to turn in favour of the unloved Japanese stockmarket, says Rob Morgan, an investment analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown on FE Trustnet.

There are a "record number" of profitable companies with strong cash positions trading at a discount to their underlying book value. What's more, with the Bank of Japan (BoJ) embarking "on an aggressive programme of quantitative easing, there is a real sense that it could ignite a rally".

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