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Japan: Financial Sector Assessment Program-Technical Note on Regulation and Supervision of Investment Funds

May 13, 2024

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Japan: Financial Sector Assessment Program-Technical Note on Regulation and Supervision of Investment Funds, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2024) accessed December 21, 2024

Summary

This technical note reviews the functioning and effectiveness of the regulation, supervision, and systemic risk monitoring of investment funds in Japan. It focuses on the requirements that are directly relevant to maintaining financial stability, namely, valuation, segregation and safekeeping of fund assets, liquidity risk management and redemption of fund units. The note also reviews the efficacy with which the authorities: i) analyze and monitor the systemic risk arising from fund management activities in Japan; ii) apply the domestic regulatory framework pertinent to investment funds; and iii) supervise compliance with the regulatory framework. The note sets out a series of recommendations to further strengthen the domestic regulatory, supervisory, and risk monitoring frameworks.

Subject: Asset and liability management, Asset management, Business enterprises, Economic sectors, Financial institutions, Financial sector policy and analysis, Financial stability assessment, Government asset management, International organization, Monetary policy, Mutual funds, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: Asset management, Business enterprises, Business operator, Financial stability assessment, FSAP finding, Global, Government asset management, Investment advisory, Japan FSAP, Japan securities dealers Association, Mutual funds

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    37

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2024/114

  • Stock No:

    1JPNEA2024006

  • ISBN:

    9798400276347

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685

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