The ceremony of the 2nd GPIF Finance Awards was held on Thursday, 26th July, 2018, at KKR Hotel in Tokyo. The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and the State Minister for Financial Services all attended this ceremony and commended the awards winner, Dr. Yoshio Nozawa, for his contribution in academic research in corporate bonds. Dr. Nozawa is an Assistant Professor at the Business School of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, who served at Federal Reserve Board as a Senior Economist.
On the same occasion, Dr. Nozawa delivered a lecture on "The determinant factors in pricing corporate bonds spreads" to the approximately 160 audience of guests, researchers and practitioners.