Why Japan’s GPIF is building its own in-house private markets data engine

Yoshitaka Todoroki, MD of GPIF’s private markets unit, and Mari Tanaka, research and analytics director, outline how the pension is gathering fund- and asset-level data to measure excess returns and refine manager selection as it moves toward more direct infra commitments.

6 January 20263 mins read
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