{"id":12319,"date":"2009-10-05T07:47:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T11:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=12319"},"modified":"2009-10-05T07:47:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T11:47:33","slug":"credit-suisse-targets-japan%e2%80%99s-800-billion-pensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2009\/credit-suisse-targets-japan%e2%80%99s-800-billion-pensions.html","title":{"rendered":"Credit Suisse Targets Japan\u2019s $800 Billion Pensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Credit Suisse Group AG, which sold its Japanese asset management unit in June, will offer alternative investments including private-equity funds to attract the nation\u2019s $800 billion in pension money.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo-based Credit Suisse Securities (Japan) Ltd., the Japanese brokerage unit of Switzerland\u2019s second-largest bank, won approval on Oct. 2 from Japan\u2019s Financial Services Agency to act as an investment management firm, according to Akira Takahashi, the head of the brokerage\u2019s asset management group. The unit in August hired BlackRock Inc.\u2019s Shinichiro Sato to head a six-member investment team, Takahashi said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601101&amp;sid=aaywDUThbNdU\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Credit Suisse Group AG, which sold its Japanese asset management unit in June, will offer alternative investments including private-equity funds to attract the nation\u2019s $800 billion in pension money. Tokyo-based Credit Suisse Securities (Japan) Ltd., the Japanese brokerage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4642,1879,9499,5198,15915,5261,5268,942],"class_list":["post-12319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-alternative-investments","tag-asset-management-group","tag-blackrock-inc","tag-brokerage","tag-financial-services-agency","tag-investment-management-firm","tag-investment-team","tag-private-equity-funds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12321,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12319\/revisions\/12321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}