Overview
CC Japan Income & Growth’s aim is to provide its shareholders with dividend income combined with capital growth, mainly through investment in equities listed or quoted in Japan.
CC Japan Income & Growth may also invest in exchange traded funds in order to gain exposure to Japanese equities. Investment in exchange traded funds shall be limited to not more than 20 per cent. of gross assets at the time of investment. The company may also invest in listed Japanese real estate investment trusts (J-REITs).
The fund’s website can be found here.
You can view our interviews with the company’s Fund Managers below:
16 December 2022: Richard Aston – Weekly Show
11 February 2022: Richard Aston – Weekly Show
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26 Apr 2024 11 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Quarterly Review – First quarter of 2024
First quarter of 2024 Investment Companies | Quarterly roundup | April 2023 Kindly sponsored by abrdn Equity rally belies difficult quarter for sector 2024 started on strong footing, with global equities (as measured by the MSCI All Countries World Index) rallying 9.2% over the first three months (in sterling terms). However, while there some standouts […]
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08 Mar 2024 1 min read
Interview with Richard Aston from CC Japan Income & Growth Trust
In this week’s show, James Carthew spoke to Richard Aston from CC Japan Income & Growth Trust. If you were looking for the first part of QuotedData’s show, focused on the roundup of the week’s news click here. If there is a guest speaker you’d particularly like to hear from, please email us on [email protected]. Additionally, […]
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09 Feb 2023 40 min read
QuotedData’s Economic and Political Monthly Roundup February 2023
Economic and Political Monthly Roundup Investment companies | Monthly | February 2023 A collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairs and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage […]
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16 Dec 2022 1 min read
Interview with Richard Aston from CC Japan Income & Growth Trust
In this week’s show, Matthew Read spoke to Richard Aston from CC Japan Income & Growth Trust. If you were looking for the first part of QuotedData’s show, focused on the roundup of the week’s news, click here. If there is a guest speaker you’d particularly like to hear from, please email us on [email protected]. Additionally, […]
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11 Feb 2022 1 min read
Interview with Richard Aston of CC Japan Income & Growth
In this week’s show, James Carthew talked to Richard Aston of CC Japan Income & Growth. If you were looking for the first part of QuotedData’s show, focused on the roundup of the week’s news, click here. If there is a guest speaker you’d particularly like to hear from, please email us. Additionally, if you […]
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07 Jul 2020 7 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – July 2020
Investment Companies Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments Table of contents New research Performance data Discounts and premiums Money in and out Major news stories Income Events Guide Appendix – Performance by sector full list New research Here is a list of research we published over June: CQS New City High Yield – […]
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10 Mar 2020 7 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – March 2020
Investment Companies Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments Table of contents New research In this issue Performance data Discounts and premiums Money in and out Major news stories Income Events Guide New research Here is a list of research we published over February: An initiation note on Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Trust (MTU) […]
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07 Feb 2020 6 min read
QuotedData’s Economic Roundup – February 2020
Economic & Political Roundup Kindly sponsored by Polar Capital and Allianz A collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you […]
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05 Jul 2019 6 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – July 2019
Economic & Political Roundup A collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell any of the […]
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22 Feb 2019 1 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – February 2019
QuotedData’s economic roundup – February 2019 is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell […]
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18 Jan 2019 1 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – January 2019
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – January 2019 is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of December 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. Extract from money raised and returned in December The only new issue […]
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11 Jul 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s Economic round up – July 2018
QuotedData’s Economic round up – July 2018 is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or […]
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25 Apr 2018 1 min read
Quarterly investment companies roundup – First quarter 2018
Quarterly investment companies roundup – First quarter 2018 Quarterly investment companies roundup – First quarter 2018 – Global equity markets declined in the first quarter of 2018. Concerns about US interest rate rises were the feature of the first half of the quarter. However, worries about global trade took over in the second part, particularly […]
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07 Feb 2018 2 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – February 2018
QuotedData investment companies roundup – February 2018 – is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of January 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. The oil price was up again over the month and this helped propel […]
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1 min read
QuotedData’s economic round up – February 2018
QuotedData’s economic round up – February 2018 is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell […]
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12 Jul 2017 2 min read
QuotedData’s economic round up – July 2017
QuotedData’s economic round up – July 2017 – is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or […]
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14 Feb 2017 1 min read
QuotedData’s round up of views on the global economy – February 2017
QuotedData’s collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from comments made by chairman and managers of investment companies. Kindly sponsored by Martin Currie. February Economic and Political Roundup
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04 Apr 2025 5 min read
The Great Wave (of returns) – Is now the time to invest in Japan?
The Great Wave off Kanagawa is a seminal piece of Japanese artwork. Created by Katsushika Hokusai in 1831, it depicts three ships struggling against the seas off the coast of Japan – and has been argued to be one of the most recognisable pieces of art ever made. In some ways it has also, until […]
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22 Jan 2025 5 min read
CC Japan Income & Growth’s NAV continues to beat TOPIX
CC Japan Income & Growth (CCJI) has published annual results for the year ended 31 October 2024, which show that it has provided NAV and share price total returns of 16.1% and 13.2% respectively, whilst the TOPIX has returned 13.4%. Discount widening over the year means that CCJI’s share price is effectively in line with […]
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25 Jan 2024 3 min read
Another good year for CC Japan
Market conditions in Japan continue to suit CC Japan Income and Growth which has just reported an NAV return of 18.9% for the year ended 31 October 2023, well ahead of the 12.0% return reported on TOPIX, the benchmark. Shareholders got a return of 20.9% as the discount narrowed. Returns would have been higher but […]
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19 Jul 2023 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 19 July 2023
Castelnau Group (CGL) announced that further to the issue of new ordinary shares in connection with its acquisition of Dignity, announced on 5 May 2023, the company will issue a further 7,479 ordinary shares in connection with the listed share alternative pursuant to the statutory squeeze out. The board of Strategic Equity Capital (SEC) has […]
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20 Jun 2023 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 20 June 2023
CC Japan Income & Growth (CCJI) announced its half year report for the period ended 30 April 2023. NAV total return was up 11.3%, while shares rose 13.1%. The strong returns were ahead of the benchmark TOPIX index which was up 9.5%. Returns in Japan have been solid over the course of the year as […]
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10 Feb 2023 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 10th February 2023
Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on YouTube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: • Chrysalis Investments (0:34) • 3i Infrastructure (9:26) • CC Japan Income & Growth (11:00) This week’s interview was with Colm Walsh from ICG Enterprise […]
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09 Feb 2023 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 9 February 2023
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 9 February 2023: CC Japan Income and Growth (CCJI) has reminded investors that the last day for exercising their subscription shares is 28 February. The day after, they will be suspended from trading and cancelled (if not exercised). The numbers are tight – the exercise price is 161p and last night’s […]
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24 Jan 2023 2 min read
CC Japan Income and Growth held back by weak yen
CC Japan Income and Growth has pubished results covering the 12 months ended 31 October 2022. Over that period, the trust’s NAV return was -5.9% and the return to shareholders -7.1%. By contrast, the TOPIX index returned -9.5% The revenue return per share improved from 4.75p to 5.14p and from this the company declared dividends […]
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16 Dec 2022 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 16th December 2022
Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on YouTube. In this week’s show, Matthew Read covered the week’s top stories: • Home REIT – update (1:45) • Abrdn Property Income – debt (10:20) • Foresight Forestry – first results (15:08) This week’s interview was with […]
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11 Feb 2022 4 min read
CC Japan Income & Growth strongly outperforms during recovery
CC Japan Income & Growth (CCJI) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 October 2021, during which it experienced a strong recovery and was able to significantly outperform the Japanese market. To illustrate, during its financial year, CCJI provided NAV and share price total returns of 24.3% and 32.7%, while the TOPIX […]
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2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 11 February 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 11 February 2022: AEW UK REIT (AEWU) has been granted planning consent for the demolition and development of a 527-unit student accommodation scheme at 225 Bath Street in Glasgow city centre, paving the way for the sale of the site to IQ Student Accommodation. The sale of the vacant office scheme […]
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28 Jun 2021 3 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 28 June 2021
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 28 June 2021 – RTW Venture (RTW), focused on identifying transformative assets with high growth potential across the biopharmaceutical and medical technology sectors, noted the 24 June announcement by one of its portfolio companies, GH Research regarding its pricing of a $160m IPO and admission to trade on the Nasdaq global market under ticker ‘GHRS.’ GH Research is […]
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26 Feb 2021 1 min read
CC Japan Income & Growth hurt by income focus
CC Japan Income & Growth (CCJI) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 October 2020, which show that it was hurt by its focus on income. During the year, CCJI’s NAV total return fell by 11.1% in sterling terms, while the Tokyo Stock Exchange Price Index (Topix) was fractionally positive at +0.3%. […]
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16 Feb 2021 1 min read
CC Japan subscription shares are here
CC Japan subscription shares are here – CC Japan Income says today it has allotted 26,946,122 subscription shares to qualifying shareholders whose names were on the share register on 15 February 2021. Application has been made for the admission of the subscription shares to the standard segment of the official list and to trading on […]
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27 Nov 2020 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 27 November 2020
QuotedData’s weekly news show 27 November 2020 Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on youtube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: Schroder British Opportunities IPO Nippon Active Value’s plan to bid for a company CC Japan’s plan to issue […]
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26 Nov 2020 1 min read
CC Japan plans subscription share issue
CC Japan plans subscription share issue – CC Japan Income & Growth Trust says that it is considering a bonus issue of subscription shares to existing shareholders, on the basis of one Subscription Share for every five ordinary shares held. The company intends to publish a prospectus and circular in connection with the bonus issue in […]
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24 Jan 2020 4 min read
CC Japan Income & Growth reports annual results as Shinzo Abe’s record tenure brings stability
Over CC Japan Income & Growth’s (CCJI) annual results period to 31 October 2019, the company delivered a total NAV return of 9.9% in sterling total return terms while the sterling total return of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Topix) was up by 7.2%. CCJI says it has recorded a 69.7% NAV total return since listing in […]
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22 Jan 2019 4 min read
CC Japan Income & Growth outperforms the Topix
CC Japan Income & Growth (CCJI) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 October 2018. During the year, CCJI has provided an NAV total return of 4.1%, while its share price rose by 2.8%. CCJI has therefore outperformed the Topix, which it says fell by 0.4% (all in sterling terms). Richard Aston, […]
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19 Jan 2018 2 min read
Small cap positions help CC Japan Income outperform
Small cap positions help CC Japan Income outperform – CC Japan Income & Growth reports that, over the financial year to 31 October 2017, and expressed in pounds sterling on a total return basis, the share price rose by 27.2% while the Net Asset Value per share increased by 20.7%. The Topix Total Return Index returned 10.1% […]
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01 Feb 2017 1 min read
CC Japan underperforms benchmark since launch
CC Japan Income & Growth has published its first Annual Report which reflects the period from listing on the London Stock Exchange on 15th December 2015 to 31st October 2016. As at 31st October 2016, and measured in Sterling, the share price has risen by 22.4% while the Net Asset Value has increased by 23.9% since […]
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16 Jun 2016 1 min read
CC Japan Income posts inaugural results
CC Japan Income & Growth Trust has published inaugural results covering the period from its launch on 15 December 2015 to the end of April 2016. At the end of April the NAV was 103.92p and the share price 107.25p. On a total return basis the fund had outperformed the Topix Index, returning 3.9% against […]
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09 Dec 2015 1 min read
New Japan focused investment trust raises £66.5m
A new Japan focused investment trust, CC Japan Income & Growth Trust, has announced that it has raised gross proceeds of £66.5m from its first placing, offer for subscription and intermediaries offer. The net proceeds of this first issue are expected to be approximately £65.3m. The shares, which were issued at a price of 100p […]
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04 Nov 2024 1 min read
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12 Aug 2024 1 min read
Investment trust insider on Japan’s sell-off
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15 Jul 2024 1 min read
Investment trust insider on small caps
Investment trust insider on small caps – James Carthew: The world can’t be mean to small-caps forever The dominance of mega-cap tech stocks has exacerbated the underperformance of smaller company funds, but history suggests this should change. Mean reversion, the tendency for asset prices to return to their long-term average, is a wonderful thing. However, […]
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03 Oct 2023 1 min read
Concentrated portfolios: 11 funds and trusts favoured by the pros
by Jennifer Hill from interactive investor, 3rd October 2023: As the old adage goes, one must concentrate to build wealth and then diversify to protect wealth. However, the benefits of diversification can diminish rapidly after you reach around 30 stocks. This concept can be traced back to a paper published by Lawrence Fisher and James […]
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01 Sep 2023 1 min read
How to analyse investment trust gearing in the era of rising interest rates
By Jean-Baptiste Andrieux, Reporter, Trustnet, 31 August 2023: The ability to borrow money is one of the weapon in an investment trust’s arsenal. In many cases, it has contributed towards the outperformance of investment trusts relative to their equivalent open-ended versions, as they take out money to invest, making higher returns each year above the […]
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27 Jan 2023 1 min read
CC Japan notes subscription share failure as it suffers from weak yen
Kathleen Gallagher, Investment Week, 24 January 2023: The chair of the CC Japan Income & Growth trust said its subscription share scheme from February last year will “expire worthless”, as the trust has struggled in the 12 months to the end of October. In the results published today (24 January), chair Harry Wells, said the […]
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17 May 2022 1 min read
Asian trusts succeeding despite China
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23 Dec 2021 2 min read
The Japanese trusts on the biggest discounts or premium relative to their history
By Eve Maddock-Jones, Reporter, Trustnet, 10 December 2021 Trustnet continues its study into which trusts have the most inflated valuations and biggest discounts relative to their five-year average, this time focusing on Japanese investment trusts. Japan has been one of the most marmite markets over the past two years, topping the charts in 2020 only to […]
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30 Jun 2020 1 min read
Global income in a lost decade for UK dividends
Global income in a lost decade for UK dividends by Jennifer Hill Investment Trust Insider ezine, issue 54, June 2020 Bear markets for dividends are a rarity. There have only been six in the past 149 years compared to 16 for total stock market returns, according to an analysis by Schroders that uses the S&P […]
