{"id":690331,"date":"2026-07-14T02:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690331\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T02:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:01:14","slug":"japan-finance-chiefs-push-for-pension-funds-to-buy-jgbs-draws-skepticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690331\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan finance chief&#8217;s push for pension funds to buy JGBs draws skepticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/markets\/bonds\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bonds<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Speculation centers on how world-leading GPIF might shift toward more bond purchases<\/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%2F1%2F3%2F9%2F12799313-2-eng-GB%2F4f212ac41a82-illust_SXM2026071300007534.jpg?fit=cover&amp;gravity=faces&amp;dpr=2&amp;quality=medium&amp;source=nar-cms&amp;format=auto&amp;width=780\" alt=\"20260713N katayama gpif montage\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama encouraged the\u00a0Government Pension Investment Fund on July 10 to invest more in Japanese government bonds. (Nikkei montage\/Source photos by Nikkei)<\/p>\n<p>AKIRA INUJIMA and TARO SAEKI<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama&#8217;s comments last week looking for pension funds to invest more in domestic assets have sent ripples through the country&#8217;s bond market on speculation that Tokyo aims to support bond prices and counter a surge in interest rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bonds Speculation centers on how world-leading GPIF might shift toward more bond purchases Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama encouraged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,24135,134407,230025,4176,12354,386,230024,5107,4174,4175,105432,230026,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-690331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-buy","tag-chiefs","tag-draws","tag-finance","tag-funds","tag-japan","tag-jgbs","tag-pension","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-push","tag-skepticism","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}