Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund Is Hiring as Assets Balloon
GPIF, which managed ¥260 trillion ($1.8 trillion) in assets at the end of June, only has 187 employees, versus 676 at Norway's Government Pension Fund Global, which oversaw the equivalent of $1.92 trillion at the end of 2024. Similarly, large retirement funds in Canada and California manage less than a third of what GPIF does, but each has more than 2,000 people on payroll.
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