By Risa Maeda
TOKYO, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Lucrative valuations at Japanese firms are likely to boost mergers, and investing in such firms with improved management should bear fruit again in 2004, an award-winning fund manager at UFJ Partners Asset Management said.
Takatoshi Itoshima, chief fund manager at UFJ Partners, Japan's number-five investment trust firm, said he would keep looking for companies with "shrewd" top managers as they always play a key role in turning ...
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