{"id":774321,"date":"2026-09-18T04:14:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T04:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/774321\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T04:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T04:14:29","slug":"japan-households-stock-investments-overtake-insurance-pensions-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/774321\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan households&#8217; stock investments overtake insurance, pensions for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Equities rally, rising interest rates whet retail investors&#8217; risk appetite<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/6.jpeg\" alt=\"20260917N BOJ\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Revised flow-of-funds data from the Bank of Japan shows household equity assets exceeding insurance and pensions. (Photo by Nanami Sato)<\/p>\n<p>AYAKA NAGANAWA and SEIICHIRO TAKITA<\/p>\n<p>September 18, 2026 00:57 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japanese households&#8217; equity holdings have risen above their insurance and pension assets for the first time on record, revised Bank of Japan figures released Thursday show, as a stock market rally drew in investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Equities rally, rising interest rates whet retail investors&#8217; risk appetite Revised flow-of-funds data from the Bank of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4176,12781,17977,1349,5353,386,255436,4178,4174,4175,4762,4238,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-774321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-first","tag-households","tag-insurance","tag-investments","tag-japan","tag-overtake","tag-pensions","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-stock","tag-time","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}