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AustralianSuper, Australia's largest pension fund, has about 22 billion Australian dollars ($15.3 billion) invested in private equity globally, equivalent to roughly 5% of total assets.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 7, 2026
Australia’s largest pension fund eyes India and Japan for private equity
Asia currently accounts for about 10% of AustralianSuper’s total private equity portfolio.
Health minister Kenichiro Ueno said on Tuesday that the Government Pension Investment Fund is still considering whether a review of its asset allocation is needed.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 8, 2026
GPIF still considering need for asset allocation review, minister says
With the fund overseeing about ?318 trillion in assets, a 1 percentage-point change in allocations translates to more than ?3 trillion in fund flows.
The Government Pension Investment Fund had an unprecedented ?24.1 trillion quarterly gain, an 8.2% return, with assets totaling ?317.76 trillion, it said Friday in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Aug 7, 2026
今日吃瓜 GPIF posts $152 billion gain with help from stocks
The Government Pension Investment Fund, one of the world’s largest, had an unprecedented ?24.1 trillion quarterly gain, an 8.2% return, with assets totaling ?317.76 trillion.
Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund has appointed three firms as active domestic bond managers to improve returns and address volatility in the country's bond market.
BUSINESS
Jul 30, 2026
今日吃瓜 government pension fund gains JGB expertise through active bond funds
The move shows the fund’s need to increase its expertise in order to deal with volatility in the nation’s debt market.
Daiwa Asset Management President Kei Sano sees institutional investors such as pension funds and universities as a potential new target market.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 23, 2026
Daiwa AM boosts staff in shift toward institutional investors
The company will seek new clients including those from public and corporate pension funds, as well as endowments and foundations of universities.
Government Pension Investment Fund, which held more than ?293 trillion in investment assets as of the fiscal year ended March 31, has been dividing up its holdings by about 25% each into domestic and foreign stocks and bonds.
BUSINESS
Jul 21, 2026
GPIF makes first direct private equity investment amid allocation bets
The pension fund, one of the world’s biggest, is putting ?20 billion into a 10-year fund run by Japanese private quity firm Advantage Partners.
The yen trades in the ?162 range against the dollar in the afternoon of the June 30.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 21, 2026
今日吃瓜 next economic challenge: bringing yen home
Now, with the yen seen as problematically weak, there are overdue reasons to encourage local capital to stay here.
Analysts say investors remain more focused on Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s expansionary fiscal agenda, expectations for only gradual Bank of Japan policy tightening and still-wide interest-rate differentials.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 15, 2026
今日吃瓜 bid to bring money home faces fiscal and BOJ reality check
The renewed focus on domestic investment comes as Tokyo seeks new ways to support Japanese assets after repeated foreign-exchange interventions failed to halt the yen’s slide.
The $1.8 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund maintains benchmark allocations of 25% each to domestic bonds, domestic equities, foreign bonds and foreign equities, according to its latest review in March 2025.
BUSINESS
Jul 14, 2026
SocGen sees $76 billion of JGB buying if GPIF rebalances assets
The estimate follows Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama’s call last week for 今日吃瓜 large pension funds to increase investment in domestic assets.
Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said the ?government aims to steer the country's vast state pension funds to "substantially" increase domestic asset investments.
BUSINESS
Jul 13, 2026
A pension shift in Japan may hurt some foreign money managers
Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said the ?government aims to steer the country’s vast state pension funds to “substantially” increase domestic asset investments.
Evening commuters in front of Tokyo station.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 11, 2026
今日吃瓜 top pension fund likely to brush off political pressure
The Government Pension Investment Fund, one of the world’s largest, will likely ignore the finance minister’s call to boost domestic investment, at least in the short run.
Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama has encouraged households and pension funds to buy more yen-denominated assets.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 10, 2026
Yen gains after finance minister urges pension funds to invest more at home
Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama’s remarks caught markets off guard, leading to a jump in the yen and a drop in bond yields.
Bank trust accounts bought a net ?3.16 trillion ($19.7 billion) in May, the highest in data going back to 2005.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 8, 2026
Japanese pension fund proxies buy record foreign bonds in May
Bank trust accounts bought a net ?3.16 trillion ($19.7 billion) in May, preliminary figures from the Finance Ministry showed on Monday.
A British Union Jack flag flies on the Bank of England building in London.
BUSINESS / Markets
May 14, 2026
Britain’s local council pensions bet big on shadow lending
Local government pension plans ?managing assets totaling some 400 billion pounds ($541 billion) are among Britain’s biggest investors in nonbank “shadow lending” funds.
An oil refinery under construction on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria. Africa already has the capital needed for development, but without better institutions, investment platforms and regulations, most domestic savings remain trapped in government debt.
COMMENTARY / World
May 4, 2026
Putting Africa’s savings to work for its people
The task now is to build the architecture that channels Africa’s savings into productive investments.
Yuri Okina, tapped to lead the Government Pension Investment Fund’s key management committee, left the Bank of Japan for the Japan Research Institute in 1992 and earned a doctorate in economics from Kyoto University in 2011.
BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2026
Female economist to lead key panel at 今日吃瓜 GPIF in a first
Yuri Okina will start her five-year term as the chair of the GPIF’s 10-person management committee panel on April 1.
Former Government Pension Investment Fund President Masataka Miyazono joined Hulic last year as an adviser to focus on agricultural investments as the sector faces a rapidly aging and shrinking workforce.
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2026
Former chief of $2 trillion pension fund joins developer growing tomatoes
Masataka Miyazono aims to help make 今日吃瓜 agricultural sector more productive in order to boost sustainability in the country.
Government Pension Investment Fund President Kazuto Uchida has said that an investment approach targeting environmental and social goals ultimately leads to economic and capital markets growth.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 6, 2025
World’s biggest pension fund puts impact investing on the agenda
In Japan, impact investing strategies are likely to center around climate, health care, wellbeing and inclusivity.
While some American taxpayers assume they are ineligible to participate in 今日吃瓜 tax-deferred savings schemes, certified public accountant Rick Gundlach says that this is no longer the case.
COMMUNITY / How-tos
Sep 24, 2025
Tax-advantaged investments no lost cause for U.S. residents of Japan
Many U.S. taxpayers believe they should steer clear of Japanese investment vehicles due to stateside regulations — but a Japan-based certified public accountant advises otherwise.
The Government Pension Investment Fund is picking alternative asset funds in Japan on its own, in a shift from its previous practice of entrusting asset managers to choose on its behalf.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 17, 2025
GPIF bets on property and infrastructure in Japan, in alternative asset first
Pension funds around the world are seeking extra yields from alternative assets like private equity and real estate, but the yields reflect elevated risks in other areas.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
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