Masataka Maeda

Senior Staff Writer, Editorial Bureau, Nikkei Inc.

Biography

He joined Nikkei in 1979. After working as a staff writer in the Industrial News Department, the Kobe Bureau, the Capital Market and Corporate News Department, and the Washington D.C. Bureau in the United States, he became a senior position in 1997 specialized in the capital market. From 2000 to 2003, he worked as Senior Economist at Japan Center for Economic Research. He is a writer of periodical column on Nikkei Electronic Edition and on Nikkei Veritas news-magazine.

Sessions

Micro-Point-Investment

Description

Japanese style "Points' Investment" is spreading in recent years. Each investment is micro but the meaning is not micro because young people start to think about asset formation seriously. Should it be the savor of the stagnant financial market?