Korean Investors

CJ Group has jumped into a bidding war to acquire McDonald's Korea. According to investment banking sources on June 28, CJ Group had submitted a lette...

The National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea has drawn only five bidders for its planned 500 billion won ($426 million) commitments to be made to...

The planned sale of a South Korean parcel delivery firm by Baring Private Equity Asia to a strategic buyer has fallen through, after the last shortlis...

A savings fund in South Korea is studying raising its exposure to European equities, stocks and infrastructure assets after the Brexit decision, where...

Unlike the U.S. Fed’s quantitative easing program that had boosted U.S. equity markets for more than six years from 2009, the Bank of Korea’s five pol...

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) has awarded $50 million mandates each to Blackstone and Pomona Capital for global secondary ...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has replaced the head of its investment review committee recently with the Chief Investment Officer Do...

The Police Mutual Aid Association (PMAA) has become the latest savings fund in South Korea in shaving the interest rate applied to long-term contribut...

The Police Mutual Aid Association of South Korea will post a public notice of a request for proposals this week to commit 100 billion won ($87 million...

China Minsheng Investment Group, China's largest private-sector investment firm, is mulling an investment of 1.3 trillion won (US$1.13 billion) in Kor...

South Korean insurance companies have been raising investments in overseas investments by more than 50% since the start of this year and also consider...

South Korean investors, led by the National Pension Service (NPS), have been ramping up overseas investments while trimming domestic portfolios, a mov...

The Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) in South Korea is looking to overseas alternative assets to invest as much as 200 billion won (...

Asset management firm Brookfield has raised a combined $700 million from major South Korean institutional investors, including the Teachers’ Pension, ...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), South Korea’s sovereign wealth fund managing $96 billion foreign exchange reserves, has recently named Kang Shin-w...

Incoming World Bank’s director of the investment management division, Heung-sik Choo, said that the international financial institution, which man...

A consortium of South Korean institutional investors, led by Mirae Asset Global Investments, has recently closed a deal worth about $245 million to bu...

Blackstone has been chosen as the preferred bidder of a prime office building in downtown Seoul, in a deal estimated to fetch 460 billion~480 billion ...

The Korea Scientists and Engineers Mutual-aid Association (SEMA), overseeing 4 trillion won ($3.4 billion) in assets, is interested in property and re...

The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), South Korea’s $8 billion military savings fund, is planning to invest in offshore blind-pool venture capit...

Korea Fire Officials Credit Union, managing $520 million in assets, will boost its exposure to structured bonds and alternative assets in developed ma...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has named the former head of Hanwha Asset Management as its new chief investment officer to run the sovereign wealt...

It was February, 2013 when Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer surprised Silicon Valley and business world by forbidding Yahoo staff from working remotely from ho...

South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) is considering investing about $17 million to $25 million in catastrophe bonds, also known a...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), South Korea’s sovereign wealth fund, may take part in project financing of overseas construction orders secu...

- On June 1, 2016, Korea Post’s insurance asset management bureau posts a request for proposal to invest in dollar-denominated sovereign bonds of emer...

South Korea’s Yellow Umbrella Mutual Aid is flexing its muscle to expand overseas alternative assets, including blind funds, in line with a rapid ...

Korea Post acquired a stake worth about $250 million of the office building in New York leased by online retailer Amazon, and expects the transaction...

Last week Korea Post, with 110 trillion won ($93 billion) of assets under management, announced four requests for proposal (RFPs) to choose general pa...