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With the yen expected to cease its inexorable rise, retirement plans in Japan may finally look abroad for yield. That will please foreign fund houses.

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.

Thanks in part to the integration of Barclays Trust mandates, the firm now has more assets than the next three-biggest players combined û but its lead is not set in stone, says researcher.