Japan corporate pensions need ‘liberating’ from pooled accounts

Jul 28, 2011

There’s potentially $500 billion-plus of such assets for foreign fund managers to tap, but doing so won’t be easy, says the Japan Pensions Industry Database blog.

Japan’s corporate pension funds have twice as much money in pooled accounts run by life companies and trust banks as they have under mandates with specific investment goals and terms of reference run by asset managers.

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