TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) on Friday posted a gain of 1.7 trillion yen ($11.78 billion) for the financial year ended March.
GPIF posted a gain on its foreign stock holdings and a loss on its domestic bond portfolio.
The result compared with a record gain of 45.4 trillion yen in the same period a year earlier and marks the fifth consecutive year of gain.
The fund, whose assets totalled 249.8 trillion yen at March-end, is closely watched in financial markets because of its size.
It also booked a gain on its foreign bond holdings and a loss on its portfolio of domestic stocks.
For the fourth quarter alone, GPIF booked a loss of 8.8 trillion yen.
Kazuto Uchida, formerly an executive at MUFG Bank, became the fund’s head in April.
($1 = 144.3300 yen)
(Reporting by Sam Nussey and Miho Uranaka; Editing by Christopher Cushing)
