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Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia:

A lot of Japanese investors have been watching overseas markets and emerging economies, looking to deploy capital to take advantage of the developments in those markets, says Matt Roberts, a partner at Harney Westwood & Riegels.

Speaking during the latest Opalesque 2016 Japan Roundtable, Roberts added that in the offshore funds sector, he sees the Cayman Islands continuing to be used as the domicile of choice by Japanese investment managers as a result of the many advantages that Cayman funds offer and investor familiarity.

He explained, "In particular, we expect that the use of the Cayman Islands exempted unit trust structure (which is the preferred investment vehicle for Japanese offshore hedge funds as a result of Japanese investor familiarity, tax and regulatory reasons) will continue and should be quite healthy. We are very bullish about Cayman and its importance to the Japanese economy."

Roberts said there is also plenty of interest amongst Japanese institutions in China, particularly, investing in Chinese equities products that they consider are properly regulated products. Those products include Shanghai or Shenzhen QDLP and the RQFII. However, all of those investments are only sold by Chinese managers that are licensed by the Chinese government. In order to get around this barrier, a number of ......................

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