GPIF

Investor Profile

GPIF finds gaps in manager engagement with Japanese corporates

The annual survey by Japan’s 245.98 trillion yen ($1.5 trillion) Government Pension Investment Fund, measuring asset manager engagement of listed companies, finds purposeful and constructive dialogue between investors and companies remains challenging. Lacklustre asset manager engagement with investee companies comes as GPIF seeks to widen its manager pool.

Sarah RundellAugust 13, 2024

Investor Profile

Giants APG and GPIF collaborate on infra

Two of the biggest pension funds in the world, the Dutch APG and Japan’s GPIF, have joined forces to invest in large scale infrastructure deals. The move comes as APG Asia head Thijs Aaten says he envisages more than half of the fund’s real assets will be in Asia.

Amanda WhiteApril 18, 2024

Featured Story

As Japan’s GPIF builds out PE, new research flags measurement method

For investors struggling to develop better ways to measure private equity fund performance, researchers at the giant Japanese fund, GPIF, suggest an alternative measurement model that compares private and public assets more accurately.

Sarah RundellMay 25, 2023

Asset Allocation

GPIF feels equity’s wrath; active equity reboot

Japan's GPIF feels the heat of see-sawing global equity markets in its latest quarterly results while the latest annual review reveals a shakeup in global active equity allocations in search of more manager diversification.

Sarah RundellAugust 8, 2022

Sustainability

Long-term approach needed more than ever

Chief investment officer of the world’s largest pension fund the $1.5 trillion GPIF, Hiro Mizuno, says large institutional investors must stay calm and maintain their long term investment course. He told Top1000funds.com that “long term investment is needed more than ever before”.

Amanda WhiteMarch 26, 2020

Sustainability

TCorp launches sustainability bond

The investment arm of one of Australia’s state governments, TCorp, has issued a A$1.8 billion sustainability bond reflecting the appetite of investors which are increasingly hungry for bonds that are issued to fund social and environmental projects.

Elizabeth FryNovember 20, 2019

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