Corporate pension manager AIJ

Corporate pension manager AIJ

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 24, 2012, shows the building housing the office of corporate pension fund manager AIJ Investment Advisors Co. in Tokyo's Nihombashi district. The Financial Services Agency ordered the company to suspend its business for one month the same day, after finding that most of the fund managed by AIJ, totaling about 210 billion yen, is missing.

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