Market Comment: Japanese stocks ended the day with double digit losses, though the Bank of Japan’s intervention and purchase of government bonds took the market 4% off the lows. Early morning quake fears were compounded by Kan saying …
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that the risk from radioactivity was rising. TEPCO ended lower for a 2nd day at ¥1221 and was 42% lower than where it was on Friday’s close. TOSHIBA also ended lower for a 2nd day as investors question the future of the nuclear power industry. All 20 Topix subsectors were in the red. Utilities, Steels and Real Estate were the worst hit while Insurance, Energy and Autos outperformed. MOTHERS suffered double digit losses again as retail investors sold off. They had become much more active leading up to this event.

Value Strategy: As long as the troubled nuclear plants stay safe and can avoid the worst scenario, we think today’s Tokyo stock price offers attractive investment opportunity from the long term viewpoint although corporate earnings would be depressed a bit in the near term.
Advantage Strategy: Regarding Advantage strategy, we do not make material changes to the portfolio at this stage as we maintain our conviction in the attractiveness within our holdings from the long term perspective in particular. Meanwhile we will obviously continue to scrutinize the impact from those incidents and will change the portfolio positioning if necessary.
Small/Mid Growth Strategy: As for Japan (Nippon) Small/Mid Cap Equity Fund, we will maintain our portfolio strategy that overweighting on stocks with clear growth driver. We are analyzing the impact from the earthquake on our holding stocks.
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