Korean investors' survey

Korean investors pick private debt as preferred asset class

Chang-jae Yoo and Seon-Pyo Hong

Oct 27, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)

South Korea’s institutional investors, including pension funds, mutual aid associations and insurers, plan to increase the private debt portion of their alternative investments the most. They also chose real estate as the most overvalued asset type among major alternative asset types, including real estate, infrastructure, private equity and more.

Currently, overseas investments account for 60.5%, with domestic investments holding 39.5% from the overall alternative investments made ...