TOKYO -- Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund, one of the world's largest institutional investors, said on Friday that its profit in the first quarter ended in June hit a record high of 18.98 trillion yen ($133 billion), buoyed by sound performance in stock investment.
This is the fund's highest-ever surplus for a quarter, surpassing the 12.48 trillion yen recorded in the April-June quarter of 2020. The return ratio was 9.49%. Gains by asset were 7.08 trillion yen on domestic stocks, 7.81 trillion yen on foreign stocks, 3.89 trillion yen on foreign bonds, and 176 billion yen on domestic bonds.
