Investment Trusts: Percent and Household Assets

investment trusts: By asset type, equities rose 22.5 percent to 191 trillion and investment trusts increased 15.6 percent to 100 trillion. ; Cash and deposits, which accounted for 51.6 percent of household assets, rose 2.6 percent to a record 945 trillion, according to The Japan Times. The data also showed that the BOJ's holdings of Japanese government bonds rose above 40 percent of the total for the first time, climbing 9.9 percent from a year earlier to 437 trillion. The growth was boosted by the increasing value of stocks and other assets amid a moderate global economic expansion. The central bank buys vast amounts of the debt as part of its aggressive monetary easing measures aimed at lifting the economy and spurring inflation toward 2 percent. Yields move inversely to debt prices. Meanwhile, the outstanding balance of government bonds fell 2.1 percent to 1.085 quadrillion, down for the first time in roughly eight years as debt yields rose from their lows a year earlier. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.