How GPIF uses active management to achieve ESG goals

Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) has been proactively publishing analyses and reports on the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) efforts of an increasing number of active equity fund managers who externally manage the pension fund’s portfolio, Eiji Ueda, chief Investment officer and executive managing director at GPIF, told AsianInvestor. ESG factors have high priority for GPIF, but the world’s largest pension fund is mindful of not influencing markets and…