Korean Investors

South Korea’s police savings fund has appointed a former fixed-income head of Samsung Asset Management as its first chief investment officer fro...

Macquarie Group has closed its latest European infrastructure fund in the first round of fund-raising after attracting more than its target funding, a...

A property investment arm of the Samsung Group will raise 300 billion won ($270 million) from South Korean insurance companies and pension funds in a ...

Baring Private Equity Asia has named CVC Capital Partners as the preferred buyer of South Korea’s No.4 parcel delivery company, which the Carlyle Grou...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has decided to withdraw $70 million from a U.S. real estate fund that makes bets on property price ris...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA), a savings fund for South Korean public officials, will select about two management firms to commit $4...

A real estate mezzanine fund of Brookfield Asset Management, for which the private investment firm is aiming to raise $2 billion globally, is expected...

The Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) will commit $50 million to U.S.-based HPS Investment Partners and Crescent Capital Group each for over...

The Carlyle Group has joined forces with a local dairy to bid for the South Korean operations of McDonald’s in a deal reportedly worth 600 billion won...

Korea Post’s savings arm has been chosen as the preferred buyer of the headquarters building of France’s Natixis in Paris, in a deal worth 230 billion...

The Teachers’ Pension of South Korea will commit $100 million to a North America-focused, blind mezzanine fund to be launched by U.S.-based Crescent C...

Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) has signed an agreement to buy a U.S. solar power plant from private equity firm Carlyle Group for $35 million, in ...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has drawn slightly over 200 applicants for about 30 positions opened at its fund management division, hit...

Blackstone, the world’s largest real estate investment firm, has attracted 1 trillion won ($900 million) from South Korean institutional investors for...

TPG named Sanghoon Lee, an ex-Morgan Stanley executive and elder son of a former Samsung Electronics vice chairman and CEO, as the head of its South K...

The Carlyle Group has recently embarked on due diligence of South Korea’s Logen Co. Ltd. for a possible acquisition, following another private equity ...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has decided to commit €250 million to Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 5 (MEIF5) that is aiming to ...

Korea Post’s savings unit is seeking three global real estate fund managers to make joint investments in first mortgages of U.S. commercial assets for...

South Korea’s Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) will invest €40 million in Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 5 (MEIF5) that is aiming to rai...

South Korean institutional investors are gearing up to raise exposure to U.S. bank loans, collateralized loan obligation (CLO) and commercial mortgage...

Korea Post’s savings unit announced a request for proposal on August 17 to select three asset management houses that will be in charge of setting up s...

South Korean insurance firms and other institutions have committed a total of $250 million to a local fund set up to provide senior loans to Newark En...

ING Life Insurance, fisheries cooperatives and a college fund in South Korea will put a total of $80 million into a fund run by USAA Real Estate Compa...

Samsung Securities and Samsung SRA Asset Management will acquire Commerzbank Tower, the headquarters of Commerzbank and the landmark of Frankfurt, at ...

National Pension Service (NPS), Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) and a South Korean insurer are considering putting a combined $370 million into a r...

South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has preliminarily chosen three U.S.-based asset management firms of mezzanine funds in limit...

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) has selected Daishin Asset Management and Shinhan BNP Paribas Asset Management as general pa...

South Korean pension and savings funds are piling into short-term notes backed by time deposits at Chinese banks, lured by higher deposit rates from C...

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., better known as Foxconn Technology Group for supplying Apple's iPhones, will jump into a deal to acquire Tongyan...