Daisuke Hamaguchi, CIO of the Pension Fund Association, wants to boost returns, but faces an immature domestic alternatives market and rising hedging costs.
The pension fund’s CIO, Daisuke Hamaguchi, says the Japanese stock market has ceased to function properly. His proposed solution: a tax incentive for selling cross-shareholdings.
Japan's $112 billion Pension Fund Association has appointed UK firm Hermes EOS to help implement its stewardship activities, reflecting a push towards responsible ownership across Asia.
Daisuke Hamaguchi, CIO at Japan's $106 billion Pension Fund Association, tells AsianInvestor how risk management has played a role in its asset allocation and what its alternatives plans are.
The CIO at Japan's Pension Fund Association discloses his fears about over-reliance on standard deviation as a measure of risk at an AsianInvestor forum.