Japan Pension Funds Holding $400 Billion Hire Their First CIOs
Japanese pension funds are seeking to bolster returns in a volatile market by doing something many of them have never done before: appoint chief investment officers.
One of those funds, the Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation Japan, an agency that promotes smaller firms, established in April a position that's equivalent to CIO.
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