{"id":29586,"date":"2012-06-19T09:43:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T13:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=29586"},"modified":"2012-06-19T10:20:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T14:20:21","slug":"pension-investment-managers-company-aij-president-arrested-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2012\/pension-investment-managers-company-aij-president-arrested-in-japan.html","title":{"rendered":"Pension Investment Management Company AIJ President Arrested in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) AIJ President Kazuhiko Asakawa, 60, was arrested on suspicion of defrauding two corporate pension funds by presenting false investment performance records last year.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after a March raid of AIJ&#8217;s headquarters as well as 20 other locations linked to the suspects. The raids came after company officials told the local  Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission that AIJ couldn&#8217;t account for most of the pension money it managed.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is still ongoing, but AIJ is believed to be hiding the loss of $89 million last year, and an estimated $1.3 billion over the last ten years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/g\/a\/2012\/06\/18\/bloomberg_articlesM52S0T0UQVI901-M5UNE.DTL#ixzz1yFHUE3ZN\">Bloomberg reports<\/a> that global hedge funds are receiving more allocations of Japanese assets as a way for Japanese investors to diversify their alternative asset portfolios. Bloomberg&#8217;s research shows that Neuberger Berman Group LLC is winning new mandates to the $4 billion it has gathered in Japan since 2004. Winton Capital Management Ltd., with about $3 billion from Japanese investors, is seeing steady inflows, while Financial Risk Management Ltd. is starting a new fund to meet growing interest.<\/p>\n<p>Second largest in the world, the Japanese pension system oversees $3.36 trillion. <\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) AIJ President Kazuhiko Asakawa, 60, was arrested on suspicion of defrauding two corporate pension funds by presenting false investment performance records last year. This comes after a March raid of AIJ&#8217;s headquarters as well as 20 other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29586","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29593,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29586\/revisions\/29593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}