TOKYO -- Japan's public pension fund, one of the largest institutional investors in the world, has stirred an international debate with its decision to stop lending shares for negative bets on stocks.
The Government Pension Investment Fund, which had 161 trillion yen ($1.48 trillion) in assets under management as of September, said last Tuesday that share lending risks "creating a de facto vacuum in the fund's holdings."
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