Japan ETFs to surge on institutional demand, fee cuts
Increased allocation from the country's asset owners should combine with new rules on fee disclosure to boost its exchange-traded fund market, which is already the largest in Asia.
Japan’s large but immature exchange-traded funds (ETF) market will enjoy further development in 2017, on the back of rising appetite from local pension and insurance companies and moves by the government to lower fees on other competitor products such as mutual funds.
ETFs in Japan have already enjoyed a boost in volumes due to the Bank of Japan’s (BoJ) aggressive buying spree, as part of its ongoing quantitative easing efforts. It represents $90 billion of the $154 billion ETF ma…
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