{"id":562693,"date":"2026-08-08T10:12:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562693\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:12:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:12:35","slug":"japan-pension-whale-gpif-reaps-record-150bn-in-mainly-ai-driven-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562693\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan pension whale GPIF reaps record $150bn in mainly AI-driven gains"},"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\">Fund snags 8.2% return on mix of domestic and international stocks and bonds<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/2\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20260807N GPIF\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The Government Pension Investment Fund&#8217;s\u00a0assets under management stood at 317.76 trillion yen in June, surpassing\u00a0300 trillion yen for\u00a0the first time.\u00a0(Photo by Jumpei Kinefuchi)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan&#8217;s massive public pension manager posted a quarterly record 24.09 trillion yen ($153 billion) in gains for the three months through June, boosted by surging stocks that were driven by AI investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finance Fund snags 8.2% return on mix of domestic and international stocks and bonds The Government Pension Investment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[276752,90362,138,246,13988,198792,1759,82008,111,139,69,2180,244,245,276751,1974,26010],"class_list":["post-562693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-150bn","tag-ai-driven","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-gains","tag-gpif","tag-japan","tag-mainly","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pension","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-reaps","tag-record","tag-whale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562693","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=562693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}