Korean Investors

Korea Investment Cooperation (KIC) is zooming in on lending to small to medium-sized companies and targets Asian private equity deals in pursuit of mi...

The National Pension Service (NPS) will improve the role of its overseas offices in New York, London and Singapore to increase direct investment in al...

Hyundai Investments Co. Ltd. has completed the €235 million ($275 million) acquisition of a seven-story office building in the Paris metropolitan area...

South Korean institutional investors, including the Teachers’ Pension and insurance companies, are set to reap a profit of more than €106 million ($12...

An independent South Korean investment firm has become the first institutional shareholder in Hyundai Mobis Co. Ltd. publicly supporting the Hyundai M...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) plans to commit up to $150 million to global blind-pool private equity funds for three types of strate...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is looking into whether Elliott Management’s recent move against the South Korean government constitutes a conflict...

KTB Asset Management Co. Ltd. has invested an undisclosed amount in a debt secured on Union Station in Washington D.C. on behalf of three South Korean...

Goldman Sachs’ latest real estate credit investment vehicle has raised $650 million in senior loans from a pool of South Korean institutional investor...

New York-based StepStone Group has raised $90 million in commitments from three South Korean institutional investors since the start of this year, inc...

Mirae Asset Financial Group is set to acquire a prime office building in the City of London from the Blackstone Group for £340 million ($461 million...

M&G Real Estate of London-based Prudential Plc. will sign an agreement soon to buy new twin office towers in Seoul for around 1.1 trillion won ($1...

Woori Private Equity Asset Management Co. Ltd. (Woori PE) plans to raise 300 billion won ($280 million) in a global private debt fund jointly with a H...

The units of NongHyup Financial Group, which include banking, brokerage and insurance businesses, will collectively commit $100 million to TPG’s seven...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) and a California pension fund will inject $200 million each into a joint venture they are setting up t...

Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd. has invested $300 million in a senior debt issued to finance the $5.2 billion acquisition of The Center, a landmark skyscr...

Hana Alternative Assets Management Co. Ltd. has collected $300 million from seven South Korean institutional investors to invest in mezzanine debts on...

Thae Khwarg, a former head of Barings’ South Korean asset management arm, is highly likely to be named as chief investment officer of the National P...

Hyundai Motor Group has bolstered the roster of its advisors with the addition of Goldman Sachs and US law firm Latham & Watkins LLP to step up fi...

Korea Post plans to commit up to $500 million to global infrastructure blind-pool funds to make equity investments in core infrastructure assets, acco...

Three South Korean lenders – KDB Bank, Woori Bank and Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) - have recently provided a combined $130 million in direct loan...

Hyundai Investments Co. Ltd. has raised a total of €180 million ($222 million) in commitments to invest in 3i European Operational Projects Fund from ...

Korea Post’s insurance unit on April 9 announced a plan to select global fund managers for single offshore commingled hedge funds. It will receive pr...

Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd. and South Korea’s top internet portal Naver Corp. are looking to invest as much as 1 trillion won ($940 million) in Asia...

KEB Hana Bank has arranged a $280 million syndicated loan to the biggest owner of the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Manhattan from a pool of South Korean fi...

The Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) and Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. have invested around 38 billion won ($36 million...

A consortium of KKR & Co. and South Korea’s IGIS Asset Management Co. Ltd. on March 30 was selected as a preferred buyer of twin office towers in ...

Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd. and NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd., which closed the £242 million ($340 million) joint acquisition of an London o...

Heenam Choi, an executive director of the International Monetary Fund and former South Korean deputy finance minister, was appointed as chief executiv...