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Japan keeps GPIF allocation targets unchanged while boosting domestic bias

Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said the government will seek ways to encourage pension funds, including GPIF, to invest more in Japanese financial assets, a move investors linked to gains in the yen and Japanese bonds.

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Japan has no immediate plans to change the target asset allocation for state pension funds like the Government Pension Investment Fund, or GPIF, according to people familiar with government deliberations cited by Reuters.

The government instead is considering how to steer more of pension fund portfolios toward Japanese financial assets within existing allowable ranges, after Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said authorities would look for ways to encourage GPIF to make substantially greater investments in Japanese financial assets.

The comments helped lift the Japanese yen and Japanese bonds, with investors betting that additional capital could be directed into domestic markets through the world’s largest pension fund.

The yen’s value is influenced by factors including Bank of Japan policy, interest rate differentials with the United States, and broader risk sentiment, and the BOJ’s shift away from ultra-loose policy has already been narrowing the gap versus U.S. yields.

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