曼谷，10月14日：日本最高货币外交官三村敦表示，日本政府养老金投资基金（GPIF）的投资活动正在支持全球金融市场的“功能和流动性”。
BANGKOK, Oct 14 : Japan's top currency diplomat Atsushi Mimura said on Wednesday the investment activities of the country's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) are supporting the "function and liquidity" of global financial markets.
三村在曼谷国际货币基金组织会议期间举行的人口与老龄化问题小组讨论中表示，日本通过诸如在1961年引入全民养老金和医疗保健系统等措施，较早应对了人口快速老龄化带来的挑战。
Japan had responded quite early to the challenges of a rapidly ageing population through measures such as introducing universal pensions and healthcare systems in 1961, Mimura said in a panel on demographics and ageing population held during the IMF meetings in Bangkok.
这些措施带来了积极的副作用，例如劳动力状况“非常健康”以及养老金的显著积累，他表示，如今GPIF已成为全球最大的机构投资者。
Such steps created positive side effects, such as a "very healthy" workforce and a dramatic accumulation of pension funds, he said, with the GPIF now the world's biggest institutional investor.
“通过这种方式，政策的主动和早期引入不仅帮助我们应对，甚至更好地应对人口老龄化，还带来了许多积极的副产品，”三村表示，他同时担任日本财务省负责国际事务的副大臣。
"In this way, the proactive and early introduction of policies not only supported us in responding, or better responding, to population ageing, but also gave us a lot of positive by-products," said Mimura, who is Japan's vice finance minister for international affairs.
GPIF报告称，4月至6月季度实现季度投资收益创历史新高，这引起了人们对全球最大养老金基金是否应重新审视其投资策略的关注。分析人士表示，其投资组合策略的任何转变都将在全球金融市场中产生广泛影响。
GPIF reported a record quarterly investment gain in the April-June quarter, heightening attention on whether the world's largest pension fund should rethink its investment strategy. Any shift in its portfolio strategy would reverberate across global financial markets, analysts say.