What kind of return are we getting from these savings? What we perhaps need to strengthen is our investment side of those savings. And this is in my view where the capital market can help out. It can bring us closer to other forms of investment.
Adding these values together, the total amount of the Bank’s holdings was approximately 73 trillion yen at the end of April 2012, is expected to total 92 trillion yen at the end of this year, thereby exceeding the amount of banknotes in circulation, and reach 97 trillion yen at the end of June next year (Chart 7).