From Japan to the US, sanctions threaten top pension funds’ Russia assets

- By Lorenzo Migliorato and Alessandro Aimone
- 01 Mar 2022

Norway’s announcement it would divest its sovereign wealth fund’s Russian holdings – totalling $2.8 billion as of end-December – as a consequence of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has raised the prospect that other state-backed pension funds might follow their governments’ cues and offload assets en masse.

Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) – the largest in the world by assets – had

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