Japan's GPIF posts $70.6 billion investment gain in Q3
TOKYO, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) posted on Friday an investment gain of 10.7 trillion yen ($70.6 billion) in the October-December quarter, marking a recovery from a loss of 9.13 trillion yen in the preceding quarter.
The GPIF is one of the world's largest pension funds and had total assets of 258.7 trillion yen at the end of December.
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