Gearoid Reidy, Columnist

Are Japan’s Youth Really in ‘Investment Poverty’?

A growing appetite for risk.

Photographer: Akio Kon/Bloomberg

With everything that’s going on in global markets right now, who’d want to be an investor?

The answer, increasingly, is Japanese young people, who are embracing risk assets like never before — a shift in mindset that has some worried they’re spending too little on the here and now.