GPIF names new head of investment strategy

Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund has reportedly set up a new department for investment strategy and installed Atsushi Ikari to run it as director-general. Ikari has been seconded from Japan’s health, labour and welfare ministry, which administers the $1.3 trillion government pension fund. Tokihiko Shimizu He replaces Tokihiko Shimizu, who worked at GPIF for seven-and-a-half years, most recently as director-general of its research department. Shimizu returns to …