AIJ Beckoned Japan Pensions With 50-Year-Old Return Targets

Atsushi Kanbe, who manages a Japanese pension fund for wholesalers of products from vegetables to pottery to household goods, said he turned to AIJ Investment Advisors Co. to help increase gains to pay retirement benefits.

“Through word of mouth, we heard that fellow pensions had invested with AIJ that offered high returns,” Kanbe told a parliamentary committee on March 14. “We wanted to make sure we never became one of the pensions that needed special government oversight for being underfunded.”