2004 Reports

U.S.-Japan Pension Fund Alternative Investment Conference: The current status of alternative investing and future directions

Center on Japanese Economy and Business

A new category of institutional investor has entered
the world of alternative investments: the Japanese
corporate pension plan. Long discouraged from
entering the field due to domestic government regulations
and other factors, since the late 1990s a growing
number of such plans have made financial commitments
to one or more categories of alternative investments.