Korean Investors

(On August 25, Korea Post extended the deadline for submitting proposals for its global debt investment mandate to August 31, 2020 from August 19, 202...

A consortium led by NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. has been named as a preferred buyer for infrastructure assets worth $400 million in Austra...

The National Pension Service will set up teams in its overseas offices to directly handle active investments in traditional assets such as equiti...

The National Pension Service plans to carry out about a fivefold increase in overseas staffing by 2024 which will help to reduce external management f...

The National Pension Service has posted a 0.37% return as of the end of May, cancelling out the negative return of the previous four months as th...

Silence over the tenure of incumbent chief investment officer (CIO) at the National Pension Service is stirring up talk within the global asset manage...

Hana Financial Investment Co., Ltd has invested in an energy storage system development project as an underwriter for senior loans worth $117 million....

Korea Post’s insurance arm is looking for one or two real estate debt managers to invest $200 million in mezzanine debt, for which it is plannin...

Local institutional investors have injected $500 million (600 billion won) into a special purpose company to invest in diverse funds managed by privat...

Korea-based IGIS Asset Management has announced plans to drop its renovation project of an 11-story apartment, an unwilling decision triggered by...

Major South Korean pension funds and insurers are planning to expand offshore infrastructure portfolios next year, and zooming in on aircraft finance ...

Logistics center operations in Korea have remained strong amid the global pandemic on account of e-commerce and third-party logistics' ...

Kewsong Lee, co-chief executive officer of the Carlyle Group, has been appointed as the US private equity group’s chief executive officer after ...

KB Securities Co. Ltd. has claimed damages arising from the alleged breach of contract over an Australian real investment fund after it returned 90.4 ...

Shinhan Financial Group, one of Korea's largest financial holding firms, has reached out to asset management companies that are well-versed ...

South Korean pension schemes and sovereign wealth fund KIC have recently restarted overseas alternative investments that had been suspended due to the...

CVC Capital Partners has raised more than $175 million from three South Korean pension plans for its record $24 billion buyout fund, diversifying fund...

The Carlyle Group has raised $600 million for an infrastructure credit fund in South Korea jointly with two domestic financial services firms to lend ...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has announced a $400 million joint venture with NongHyup, or the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, to...

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. has purchased a $77 million mezzanine loan backed by a six-story space in the 101-story, 30 Hudson Yards, the third...

One Equity Partners (OEP), a New York based private equity firm, unloaded its remaining shares in Celltrion Healthcare valued at approximately 31...

The National Pension Service is paying handsome performance bonuses to its internal investment staff after the world’s third-largest pension fun...

South Korea's Tiger Alternative Investors Co. Ltd has raised about $100 million from domestic retirement funds and insurance firms to invest in senior...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is preparing to launch a joint fund with NongHyup, or the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, to invest i...

The National Pension Fund has significantly increased alternative investments in the first four months to April from a year earlier, which industry so...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has appointed private equity head James Jongho Kim as alternative investment group head and deputy chief investment...

Prudential Financial Inc.’s 2.3 trillion won ($1.9 billion) sale of its South Korean unit dominated the country’s M&A advisory market ...

The National Pension Service (NPS) is to launch a $2.3 billion property fund with Germany’s Allianz SE to invest in core real estate in Asia, wi...

Yong-jin Kim, who served as a vice finance minister of President Moon Jae-in’s government between mid-2017 and 2018, has been chosen as the Nati...