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Japan's Corporate Pension Fund Plans 1% Crypto Allocation
Japan's National Business Corporate Pension Fund, which covers some 1,200 small and medium-sized businesses, plans to allocate roughly 1% of its assets to crypto. The allocation would mark one of the first crypto investments by a Japanese institutional pension fund, a sector that has long avoided digital assets. A successful pilot could encourage larger Japanese pension managers to follow, given that domestic policymakers have pushed the asset management industry toward higher-yielding strategies. The move fits a global pattern of pension funds establishing sub-2% crypto allocations as diversification pilots rather than core positions.
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