| The city’s real estate market could see increased investment from Japanese institutional investors, with Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) – the world’s largest pension fund – expected to increase global real estate investment. The GPIF is anticipated to allocated up to 5 percent of its roughly $1.2 trillion in assets into “alternative investments” that would include real estate, according to a report by commercial brokerage CBRE.
That means the pension fund’s total investments in overseas real estate markets alone over the coming years could reach $1.8 billion – equal to total Japanese outbound real estate investment in 2014, CBRE said...............................................Full Article: Source
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