The Pension Fund Trying to Change the World.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Mizuno, Hiromichi
- Source
- TIME Magazine; 9/23/2019, Vol. 194 Issue 11/12, p92-92, 1p, 1 Color Photograph
- Subject
- PENSION financing
PENSIONS
PENSION trusts
ETHICAL investments
SUSTAINABLE investing
- Language
- ISSN
- 0040781X
The article discusses Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), the largest pension fund in the world. Noted is how the fund is committed to considering climate change in its investments. In the two years prior to March 2019 around 32.8 billion dollars were invested in funds that take into consideration environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors.