{"id":239129,"date":"2025-07-05T03:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T03:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/239129\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T03:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T03:58:11","slug":"japan-pension-whale-gpif-posts-678bn-in-returns-over-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/239129\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan pension whale GPIF posts $678bn in returns over 5 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan&#8217;s Government Pension Investment Fund enlarged its assets by\u00a098 trillion yen ($678 billion) over five years ending with fiscal 2024 while posting returns of 1.7 trillion yen, or $11.8 billion, for that final fiscal year, the fund reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">Rising stock prices at home and abroad drove the heavy gains over the medium-term period. But the weak yen also played a role, accounting for about 40% of the increase, prompting concern\u00a0about a backlash as the Japanese currency\u00a0strengthens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO &#8212; Japan&#8217;s Government Pension Investment Fund enlarged its assets by\u00a098 trillion yen ($678 billion) over five years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[93009,63530,51,474,24531,2122,2074,2499,93008,53193,16,15,22023,42402],"class_list":{"0":"post-239129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-678bn","9":"tag-63530","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-gpif","13":"tag-japan","14":"tag-pension","15":"tag-personal-finance","16":"tag-posts","17":"tag-returns","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-whale","21":"tag-years"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}