Asset Allocation
Japan’s GPIF Joins ESG Benchmark
Pension giant hopes to encourage the disclosure of ESG data.
Tag: Japan
Newsmakers
Robertson’s Contribution to Hedge Funds: Research Intensity
While hedge operators were always stats-oriented, he took data gathering to a whole new level.
Asset Allocation
Japan’s GPIF Loses $28 Billion in First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2022
The $1.43 trillion pension giant posts back-to-back quarterly losses for the first time in six years.
Manager Selection
Eiji Ueda Reappointed as CIO of GPIF
The Goldman Sachs veteran helped lead the world’s largest pension fund to two years of growth.
Newsmakers
Japan’s GPIF Seeks Data on Effect of Securities-Lending Suspension
The $1.73 trillion pension giant has issued a request for information regarding its 2019 decision to stop lending securities to short sellers.
Risk
Jeremy Grantham: How to Live in an About-to-Burst ‘Super Bubble’
The noted seer has some refuge investment ideas. Hint: not US stocks.
Asset Allocation
Forget US Stocks and Head Overseas, BCA Says
American equities are too costly, and there are better, cheaper prospects elsewhere, per the research outfit.
Asset Allocation
Domestic Equities Weigh Down Japan’s Pension Giant
GPIF’s $1.7 trillion portfolio cools off to start fiscal 2021 after a historic 2020.
Pensions
Japan’s GPIF Finds Portfolio Firms Proactive on ESG Disclosure
A report from the pension giant reveals a ‘virtuous cycle’ of providing non-financial information.
Pensions
Japan’s $1.7 Trillion Pension Giant Breaks Record, Returns 25% in 2020
Red hot equities help the world’s largest pension fund rake in $339 billion in investment gains.
Asset Allocation
GPIF Invests $12.5 Billion in Morningstar, MSCI ESG Benchmarks
The Japanese pension giant has already started passively investing with the two US index providers.
Market Moves
Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund Returns 3.05% in Q2
World’s largest pension fund grows to $1.62 trillion with $47.64 billion quarterly gain and is on pace for its best year ever.
Coronavirus - COVID-19
Japanese Pension Fund Loses $77 Billion in Fiscal 2019
The world’s largest retirement system is the lowest it’s been valued in roughly three years.
Corporate Moves
Japan’s GPIF Seeking Active and Passive Managers for Foreign Bonds
The giant pension fund seeks to diversify away from low-yield Japanese bonds.
Asset Management Culture
Tesla Recruits Former CIO of $1.5 Trillion Japanese Pension Fund GPIF
Hiromichi Mizuno joins Tesla to serve the board as an independent director and on its audit committee.