AsianInvestor’s new weekly column on past events looks back at the ESG development in the allegedly conservative corporate world of Japan - and how the world's largest pension fund has influenced that process.
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Overseas equities weighed down on the Japanese pension fund’s performance particularly strongly, and efforts to optimise the equities portfolio are underway.
Asset Management One (AMO) is continuing to enhance and expand its ESG product and engagement offerings for asset owners – a key contributor to the firm’s business that helped it to win AsianInvestor’s ‘Fund House of the Year - Japan’ for 2022.
Japanese regulator seeks to push the ESG agenda, spearheaded by GPIF, closer to the centre of investment calls. Code of conduct aims to ensure better data framework for assessing ESG.
Having made its first negative quarterly return in two years at the end of FY2021, the world's largest pension fund plans to adapt to a changed investment landscape.
The Dutch pension fund says it will push for improvements in ESG practices of its portfolio companies in South Korea and Japan with active engagement, including lobbying the government and the media and using its voting rights.
The German insurer has plans for the property sector in Australia and China too.
Omicron may have put the bite into the property sector, but commercial property in Asia Pacific is defying the odds in a challenging sector, says a CBRE report.
Japan's GPIF posted 0.98% investment return in the second quarter ended September; Taiwanese pension funds overseen by BLF report 5.75% return for the first nine months of 2021; Abu Dhabi Growth Fund signs agreement with Indonesia Investment Authority; OTPP allocates 25% stake in road infrastructure in India; and more.
GIC buys 40% stake in Oxford Science Park for $218 million; Hong Kong to scrap MPF's offsetting arrangement; Malaysia's EPF and Kwap increase stakes in Bursa Malaysia; Japan's endowment fund reveals only one fund manager has been hired; Thailand and China agree to look into cross-border initiatives between capital markets; and more
Wooed by its compelling stability, Asian investors and fund managers are looking to increase their allocations into Japan’s multi-family real estate sector
The NGO's election of a Japanese insurer board member promises to improve ESG stewardship in fixed income, plus bridge the gap between investors and policymakers.
