{"id":521789,"date":"2026-07-12T03:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T03:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/521789\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T03:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T03:28:12","slug":"japan-wants-pension-whale-gpif-to-dive-deeper-into-alternative-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/521789\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan wants pension whale GPIF to dive deeper into alternative investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/finance\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Finance<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Government strategy to call on fund to use more of its 5% allocation<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ft.com\/v3\/image\/raw\/https%3A%2F%2Fcms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com%2Fimages%2F3%2F9%2F6%2F4%2F12754693-3-eng-GB%2F75da7d7de3c9-photo_SXM2026071100005111.jpg?fit=cover&amp;gravity=faces&amp;dpr=2&amp;quality=medium&amp;source=nar-cms&amp;format=auto&amp;width=780\" alt=\"20260711N GPIF\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Japan&#8217;s\u00a0Government Pension Investment Fund began alternative investing in fiscal 2013 but remains well short of its 5% ceiling. (Photo by Shintaro Ino)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan&#8217;s government will nudge the country&#8217;s massive public pension fund to invest more in alternative assets as part of an effort to harness capital for economic growth, Nikkei has learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finance Government strategy to call on fund to use more of its 5% allocation Japan&#8217;s\u00a0Government Pension Investment Fund&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[4911,138,14769,11774,246,198792,330,1759,111,139,69,2180,244,245,14638,26010],"class_list":["post-521789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-alternative","tag-business","tag-deeper","tag-dive","tag-finance","tag-gpif","tag-investments","tag-japan","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pension","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-wants","tag-whale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}