A half dozen Japanese LPs backing impact funds across Asia, Africa and Latin America: Impact Alpha, United States

Amid a broader push into impact investing, Japanese institutions are globalizing their portfolios and channeling billions into impact strategies across emerging markets in Asia, Africa and Latin America. 

The Japanese government late last year said that the country’s $1.4 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund, GPIF, and other public asset owners would begin to consider non-financial factors such as impact. In March, GPIF formalized the policy shift through a revision of its investment principles to incorporate impact investments

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