The world's largest pension fund aims to boost and broaden its socially responsible assets after buying them for the first time this year. Hiromichi Mizuno, who helps manage $1.3 trillion in assets for the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) as its chief investment officer, said ...
The world's biggest pension fund posted its best annual gain in two years, as Japanese and overseas stocks rose while government bonds slid. The Government Pension Investment Fund returned 5.9 percent, or ¥7.9 trillion, in the year ended March 31, increasing assets to a record ...
KYODO The government pension fund said it has begun investing about ¥1 trillion in domestic stocks in line with three equity indexes covering firms that meet certain environmental, social and corporate governance criteria. Through the move, the Government Pension Investment Fund aims to prompt Japanese companies ...
The world's biggest pension may find that when it comes to returns on its $1.3 trillion in assets, Donald Trump giveth and taketh away. What started as a rally in stocks on his presidential victory five months ago turned into a slump this year, making ...
The Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) said Friday it posted a record investment profit of ¥10.50 trillion in the October-December period, boosted by a rally in stocks at home and abroad after Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election. The world's largest pension fund, ...
Norihiro Takahashi, president of the Government Pension Investment Fund, said that the public pension management body will consider disclosing the amounts of its infrastructure investment by country and region. He made the remark at a meeting of the Lower House Budget Committee in response to ...
The world’s largest pension fund reveals it will join U.S. President Donald Trump’s domestic infrastructure drive under a package Prime Minister Abe is throwing together for the highly anticipated summit.
The world's biggest pension fund posted its first profit in four quarters as stocks rebounded, providing some respite for the Japanese state money manager after critics lambasted it for taking on too much risk. The Government Pension Investment Fund returned 1.8 percent, or ¥2.4 trillion ...
Companies across Japan have a new name in their top 10 shareholder lists: the world's largest pension fund. The ¥134 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund is the top owner of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., Honda Motor Co. and at least 119 other Tokyo-listed firms, ...
There's no time like the present for Japan's pension whales to buy stocks and sell local bonds, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch. "Bond prices are high, and stocks are cheap, so it's a good opportunity to sell high and buy low," said Shuichi ...
Friday was a big day for the world's largest pension fund, which posted its worst annual loss since the financial crisis and disclosed individual equity holdings for the first time. The two may be connected. The list of domestic shares owned by the ¥134 trillion ...
The decline in global markets spelled bad news for its controversial shift from Japanese government bonds to equities.
