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¥ trillions await liberation from pooled management
Japan’s corporate pension funds have twice as much money entrusted to pooled accounts run by life companies and trust banks as they have under mandates with specific investment goals and terms of...
View ArticleBringing private equity participations to Japanese pensions
The departure of Royal Bank of Scotland’s Australia-based infrastructure advisory team for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group will give the Japanese pensions giant more of the talent it would need to...
View ArticleDoing due diligence with what data?
Today’s English-language Nikkei reports that two European hedge fund firms are seeking to attract more Japanese institutional customers. Such stories are common. Neither of the entities named appears...
View ArticlePear shaped to ship shape: Japan’s insurers set sail
Within days of completing a 12-year-long, barrier-busting consolidation at home, Japan’s insurance industry made acquisitions in Poland, India and Malaysia. It won’t stop there. Indeed, it did not...
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Buyers’ and suppliers’ forecasts see same products in demand
The results of J. P. Morgan’s latest annual survey of Japanese corporate pension funds’ allocation intentions provide a loud echo of an earlier Nomura Research Institute poll of the products for which...
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Making the most of 11,000 captive clients
Last year Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank handled all the custody work, the bulk of the administration and about 75% of the asset management business of 1,278 corporate pension funds with more than 500...
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