Japan World-Beating Stocks Seen Repeating Gains in 2014

The 49 percent rally that pushed Japanese stocks past every other developed market in 2013 has done nothing to increase valuations, a sign to the world’s biggest investors that the advance will last.

World’s Biggest Pension Fund Sees Japan Fail on 2% Inflation

The Bank of Japan’s unprecedented monetary easing will fail in its goal of spurring 2 percent inflation, according to Takahiro Mitani, president of the fund that manages the world’s largest pool of pension savings.

Japan Pension Fund Urged to Diversify as Independent Body

Japan’s 121 trillion yen ($1.21 trillion) pension fund needs more independence from bureaucrats and should put some of the world’s biggest retirement savings pool into private equity and commodities, an expert panel said.

Forex Flash: Massive sovereign wealth fund gobbles up JGB – UBS

FXstreet.com (Barcelona) - Market attention is now shifting to the Government Pension Investment Fund in Japan. This giant asset manager has Y111.9trn ($1.19trn).

Giant Japan pension fund to dip toe in emerging markets

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund, the world's biggest public pension fund, said on Monday it had selected six asset managers to make its first investments in emerging markets as it tries to boost returns in the face of rising payout obligations.