Japan's Nikkei erases losses to end higher on GPIF's stock allocation betsJapan's Nikkei share average reversed course to end higher on Monday, as investors scooped up equities on optimism that the nation's larges...
02 Dec, 2024, 01.46 PM IST
Real-money funds to dump $100 billion of stocksNotwithstanding their losses this week, equities gained over the quarter, driving up their value relative to other asset classes and forcin...
19 Dec, 2022, 06.25 AM IST
Evergrande woes hit Japan's toilet, air-conditioner and paint manufacturers"There are rising and widely reported concerns about fund flows at leading local developer China Evergrande Group, whose business scale sug...
21 Sep, 2021, 01.42 PM IST
Beware of ‘ESG bubble,’ warns ex-Chair of world’s biggest pension fundThe former head of the board of governors at the world’s largest pension fund said that Japanese fund needs to consider how much ESG assets...
29 Jun, 2021, 10.30 AM IST
JP Morgan sees possible $300 billion rebalancing flow from stocksLarge multi-asset investors may need to rotate money into bonds from stocks after strong equity performance so far this month, strategists ...
23 Nov, 2020, 06.01 PM IST
World’s largest pension fund loses $165 bn in worst quarterJapan’s Government Pension Investment Fund lost 17.7 trn yen in three months ended March.
05 Jul, 2020, 10.11 AM IST
Nikkei edges higher; suspected BOJ and pension buying buoys TopixThe benchmark Nikkei average closed 0.1% higher at 17,011.53 in choppy trading, having touched its lowest since November 2016 earlier in th...
17 Mar, 2020, 01.28 PM IST
Japan stocks edge higher; suspected BOJ and pension buying buoys TopixThe broader Topix advanced 2.6 per cent at 1,268.46, after earlier falling to 1,199.25, its lowest since June 2016.
17 Mar, 2020, 01.22 PM IST
World’s biggest pension fund adds $23 billion as stocks reboundThe return puts the fund back on track after a January-March loss halted six quarters of gains.
03 Aug, 2018, 04.31 PM IST
World’s biggest pension fund GPIF loses $52 billion as stocks slumpThe quarterly decline follows a 5.3 trillion yen loss in the fiscal year through March, the worst annual performance since the global finan...
27 Aug, 2016, 06.59 AM IST
Arun Jaitley arrives in Japan; to meet PM Shinzo Abe, industry leadersJaitley will also meet Osamu Suzuki, Chairman of Suzuki Motor, the biggest Japanese investor in automobile sector in India.
29 May, 2016, 08.44 AM IST
Easy money policies from ECB and BoJ makes rupee best-performing EM currencyAmong Asian peers, the Indonesian rupiah and the Malaysian ringgit weakened 6% and 5%, respectively, while the yen dropped 14%.
10 Nov, 2014, 04.20 AM IST
Dollar stands tall, Asian shares end week on low noteEuropean shares might escape some of the gloom, with financial spreadbetters predicting Britain's FTSE 100 to open flat.
26 Sep, 2014, 12.57 PM IST