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Recommendation of Guidelines to seek Candidates for "The 7th GPIF Finance Awards"

August 31st, 2026

Recommendation of Guidelines to seek Candidates
for "The 7th GPIF Finance Awards"

With regard to "The 7th GPIF Finance Awards", we will seek recommendation of candidates in accordance with following procedures.

Candidates

The candidates must be researchers in Japan who conducted excellent study that contributes to sophisticate pension fund management(in general this includes those who work at universities and research institutes and practitioners who conduct academic research,or researchers outside Japan who conducted the above study, and have enrolled in Japanese educational institutions or Japanese research institutes as teachers, students, or researchers.

Recommendation

The candidates can be recommended by themselves or by others.

Selection

The selection committee of academic advisors will select the winner.

(Member of selection committee)

 Tatsuyoshi Okimoto Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University
 Yasuyuki Kato Professor, Business School, Kyoto University of Advanced Science
 Josh Lerner The Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School
 Yoko Shirasu Professor, Faculty of Economics, Aoyama Gakuin University
 Shinichi Fukuda Professor, Faculty of Economics, Musashino University
 Toshiaki Watanabe Professor (Dean of the Faculty and Graduate School), Graduate School of S, Hitotsubashi University

Schedule

August 31st, 2026 - October 30th, 2026 Application
December,2026 - February,2027 Announcement (website)
March,2027 Ceremony and Lecture