{"id":7048,"date":"2008-01-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"japans-pension-fund-eyes-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2008\/japans-pension-fund-eyes-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Pension Fund Eyes Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters- Japan&#8217;s largest private-sector pension fund manager, the Pension Fund Association, is starting to invest in hedge funds, another sign that the country&#8217;s conservative institutional investors are dipping into riskier assets. <\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s pension fund industry was slow to start investing in alternative investments, but an ageing population is forcing funds to seek higher returns to meet bigger payouts.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for the association told Reuters it has created a team focused on alternative investment. The three-person team includes at least one hedge fund specialist and one real estate specialist.<\/p>\n<p>A source in the hedge fund industry said the hedge fund specialist was hired recently.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&#038;ct=us\/1-0&#038;fd=R&#038;url=http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/companyNewsAndPR\/idUST3075620080125&#038;cid=0&#038;ei=ZseZR_6mNYmaqwOWi8WgAw\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters- Japan&#8217;s largest private-sector pension fund manager, the Pension Fund Association, is starting to invest in hedge funds, another sign that the country&#8217;s conservative institutional investors are dipping into riskier assets. Japan&#8217;s pension fund industry was slow to start investing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048","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=7048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}