Korean Investors

South Korea’s public pension funds, including the National Pension Service (NPS) and pension schemes for government officials and military personnel, ...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) of South Korea has decided to commit 60 million Australian dollars to a Macquarie infrastructure fund ...

A former investment strategy head of the National Pension Service (NPS), Yoon-pyo Lee, will move to South Korea’s Truston Asset Management Co. Ltd. ne...

The Yellow Umbrella Mutual Aid is looking for stock management firms to invest a total of about 100 billion won ($88 million) and pick up to four fund...

The National Pension Service (NPS) has kicked off its first investment in hedge funds by choosing two fund of funds managers to entrust a total of $1 ...

Baring Private Equity Asia (PEA) has resumed the sale process of South Korea’s No. 4 package delivery company, and authorized two private equity firms...

Sang-Hyun Yoo, the new global alternative division head of the National Pension Service (NPS) and senior managers of other top South Korean instit...

The units of the Samsung Group made up a quarter of the National Pension Service’s (NPS) Korean stock holdings in value in the first half of this year...

The Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) and the Teachers’ Pension have brought a joint action against Daewoo Shipbuilding for $19 mill...

Asset management firm Brookfield has made a bid “far higher than market expected” to buy a landmark in central Seoul, IFC Seoul, from the ...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has recently asked the finance ministry to revise part of regulations governing the sovereign wealth fund in order ...

The National Pension Service (NPS) put top priority on “knowledge transfer,” along with the performance of funds when it picked BlackRock Financial Ma...

The National Pension Service (NPS) appointed its domestic alternative division head, Sang-Hyun Yoo, as the new head of the global alternative division...

The National Pension Service (NPS) finally selected BlackRock Alternative Advisors and Grosvenor Capital Management on July 11 as the general partners...

The National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea will commit 500 billion won ($436 million) to a $5 billion private equity fund that Blackstone Group...

Three to four South Korean institutions, including asset management firm Hyundai Investments, have put on hold a planned joint purchase of an office b...

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) posted a notification on July 6 that it would select two global private debt fund managers f...

Private debt products such as senior secured loans, collateralized loan obligation and mezzanine debt in the U.S. and European markets have become one...

(Updated on July 12, 2016 to clarify a previous business title of Chun-woong Park, a new steering committee member, as the head of the Korean arm of E...

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) posted a notification on July 1 to invite bids for a 100 billion won ($87 million) mandate f...

Korea Post has appointed a long-serving senior government official as the new head of its insurance asset investments who will also take a quasi-chief...

The Police Mutual Aid Association (PMAA) of South Korea issued requests for proposals on July 1 for 100 billion won ($87 million) mandates that it wou...

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS), managing $6 billion of assets, will make an additional investment of about 430 billion won ...

The National Pension Service’s (NPS) investment return dipped to 4.57% in 2015, but its performance outstripped those of other top five pension funds ...

The National Pension Service, the world’s 3rd largest pension scheme, has just finished its “beauty contest” to select general partners to manage dome...

South Korea’s private equity firm SkyLake Investment, which won an about $220 million mandate from the National Pension Service (NPS) this week, has b...

South Korea’s two local private equity firms, VIG Partners and SkyLake Investment, received 250 billion won ($216 million) mandates from the National ...

Two South Korean asset management firms will start to raise about 400 billion won ($346 million) in a mezzanine fund from this week to invest in 10 Hu...

A consortium of South Korea-based Glenwood Private Equity and NH PE have sent teaser letters to potential buyers of Tong Yang Magic, in a shift from i...