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Government Pension Fund Global (Thailand)

The Government Pension Fund (GPF) is a defined contribution fund. It was established on March 27th, 1997.The GPF is designed to provide an add-on defined contribution scheme to the existing defined benefit scheme administered by the Finance Ministry (Old Civil Services Scheme) and to promote contractual saving and long-term investments. Also, as one of the country’s largest institutional investors and of the UN PRI’s signatories, GPF plays a leading role as a responsible investor by both adopting and encouraging corporate governance and ESG practices in the investment community.

Country

Thailand

AUM ($B, AS AT DATE OF ASSET ALLOCATION)

$15

Performance (%, 1YR)

1.46

Chief Executive

Songpol Chevapanyaroj

Chief Investment Officer

Man Chutichudet, Arsa Indaravijaya

Chair

Lavaron Sangsnit

Asset allocation

56.77% Fixed Income

20.28% Equities

22.95% Alternatives

Website

View the annual report

Asset allocation as of December 31, 2023. All information is as per the most recent annual report or other publicly available data via the fund's website

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