Bill (Bill Mann)

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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing · Motley Fool Money: 09.05.2014 · 5 Sep 2014 podcast

The labor participation is actually shrinking.

So they're trying to figure out how to make the economy grow so that they don't end up with the promises that they've made to their citizens drowning the national budget.

Well, they're doing things now like so if you're in a country where the stock market has gone down 60 percent and has never recovered, you might do what the average Japanese person has done, which is to put your money into cash.

And not only cash, they leave it in a passbook account that generates zero income.

But it's not losing money, so you feel good.

So the government is doing everything it can do to get people to start to take some risks with their money, including doing it for them.

The government is actually getting ready to take some of the pension funds that they control and invest them in the Japanese stock market.

There's 126 million people in Japan, give or take.

And they want they want to do everything that they can do to, you know, make inflation, you know, bring inflation to Japan two percent per year or they're going to die trying.

And I really think they're going to do it.

I mean, they have tried everything else at this point.

So I am hopeful for Japan for the first time in at least 10 years.

Yeah.

I mean, there are mutual funds out there that are focused on Japan or are focused on Asia.

There are very well-constructed ETFs.

I mean, I think there's probably 30 different ETFs that point to different parts of the Japanese market.

And the thing that I would say about that is that if you want to get exposure to the Japanese market,

You don't necessarily want to be exposed to the largest companies.

So if you look for an ETF that focuses on Japanese small caps, that's probably where you want to be.

It has been good.

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