Ex-Chief of $2 Trillion GPIF Joins Developer Growing Tomatoes

When Masataka Miyazono stepped down as president of one of the world’s biggest pension funds, past precedent suggested he would have a wide variety of financial firm jobs to choose from.

But his decision for the next stage of his career was an unusual one: the former leader of Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund will focus on agriculture, specifically advising on investments to a sector that’s seeing rapid aging and reduction in its farming population.