Masumi Nishida, a partner at Dalton Investments, had his radio show featured on Asia Nikkei. His “Investor’s Sunday” program on the popular InterFM network invites a guest every week to talk about the world of high finance, including shareholder activism and private equity investment. According to Nishida, “There is a stereotype about activists being a bunch of faceless foreign investors telling companies whatever they want.” Nishida believes that there is still a lot of room for improvement for governance in corporate Japan as only 16% of companies listed on the TSE’s Prime section have a majority of independent board members. Read more about the challenges facing Japanese activism here.
