Former PFA exec lands at BGI

Yasuchika Asaoka, former executive director for investment management at Japan's Y7.8 trillion ($72 billion) Pension Fund Association, has joined Barclays Global Investors Japan as president. Asaoka had resigned from the PFA in November. The PFA is among the most influential government pension funds in Japan, seen as a benchmark by the corporate pensions market, with a mandate to oversee corporate employer benefit funds for short-term employees and terminated plans. Tomomi Yano rem…