Japan's $1.5tn pension fund to go all in on green bonds

Move forms part of ESG embrace by country's top public investor

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Japan's enormous Government Pension Investment Fund could set off a domestic stampede into green bonds.

DAICHI MISHIMA, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund will begin allocating substantial amounts of money to bonds with an environmental purpose as early as the fiscal year beginning next April, Nikkei has learned.

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