Asset Owners Report
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Blockchain
Mirae Asset teams up with Polygon Labs for tokenized securities
South Korea’s Mirae Asset Securities Co. has partnered with Polygon Labs, a New York-based global blockchain company, for financial tokenizati...
Sep 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SK Ecoplant to build data center linked to landing station in Pohang
South Korea's SK Ecoplant is set to establish, for the first time in South Korea, a global data center linked to a landing station in Pohang, North ...
Sep 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Shinhan REITs to buy HSBC's Seoul headquarters at $135 mn
Shinhan REITs Management Co., a real estate investment arm of South Korea’s Shinhan Financial Group, is poised to acquire a 65.8% stake in the...
Sep 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
Hana Bank to enter digital asset custody sector with BitGo
South Korea's Hana Bank on Tuesday said it signed a strategic business agreement with BitGo, a Palo Alto, California-based global digital asset cust...
Sep 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
Mirae Asset No. 1 among overseas asset managers in India
MUMBAI – South Korea’s Mirae Asset Global Investments Co., managing 22 trillion won ($16.7 billion) in India, ranks No. 1 among overseas...
Sep 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea’s exports down for 11th month in August but at slower pace
South Korea’s exports shrank last month for 11 consecutive months but signs of a recovery in demand for the country’s mainstay export it...
Sep 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Mirae Asset seeks to buy India’s 9th-largest brokerage Sharekhan
South Korea’s leading asset manager Mirae Asset Financial Group aims to enhance its presence in India by acquiring Sharekhan, the Southeast As...
Aug 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
SK Group commemorates chairman's 25th year since inauguration
SK Group, South Korea’s No. 2 conglomerate, will commemorate the 25th anniversary of Chey Tae-won’s inauguration as chairman on Sept. 1....
Aug 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cryptocurrencies
WEMIX listed on US virtual asset exchange Tapbit
South Korean game publisher WeMade Co. announced on Thursday that its cryptocurrency WEMIX will be listed on the US cryptocurrency exchange Tapbit.&...
Aug 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
DGB Fin to set up asset management firm in Singapore
South Korea’s DGB Financial Group is poised to set up an asset management unit in Singapore, its first overseas fund management arm, according...
Aug 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS likely to give full rights on asset managment to experts
The National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund, is poised to give investment experts full rights ...
Aug 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Investment banking
Mirae Asset Securities exceeds $3 bn in overseas equity
Mirae Asset Securities Co. said on Tuesday it owns more than 4 trillion won ($3 billion) of equity capital in overseas operations as of June 30 of t...
Aug 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KB, Shinhan, Woori improve rankings on Top 1,000 bank list
South Korea’s KB Financial Group, Shinhan Financial Group and Woori Financial Group improved their rankings on the list of the global top 1,00...
Aug 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Korea's superconductor stocks plunge on Nature report
South Korean research team’s LK-99, behind the online sensation following its claim of room-temperature superconductor over the past four week...
Aug 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Mirae Asset Global Investments buys Australian robo-advisor firm
South Korea's Mirae Asset Global Investments announced its acquisition of Stockspot, a prominent Australian robo-advisor specialist.In a statement r...
Aug 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
KCGI Asset Management appoints former KIS head as new CMO
South Korea’s KCGI Asset Management, formerly Meritz Asset Management, announced on Friday that it has hired Cho Won-bok, former division head...
Aug 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
S.Korea is far more reliant on China for rare earth metal than Japan: report
South Korea is far more dependent than Japan on neodymium permanent magnets from China at 88%, while the rate for Japan, a land devoid of rare earth...
Aug 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Seven out of 10 int'l travelers choose Japan: Yanolja reports
Osaka, followed by other Japanese cities, is the top international choice for South Korean travelers, while domestically, Jeju Island remains the fa...
Aug 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
Korean swimwear Barrel posts profit in post-pandemic surfing boom
South Korea’s leading swimwear maker Barrel is stepping up its profitability after losses during COVID-19 as its new owner has saved costs thr...
Aug 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Advanced memory is strategic asset for Korea’s chip supremacy: Hwang
South Korea, home to the world’s two largest memory chipmakers – Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. – has been the dominant...
Aug 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Morgan Stanley subsidiary takes 5% stake in JYP Entertainment stock
A Morgan Stanley-affiliated asset manager has bought more JYP Entertainment shares, raising its stake to more than 5 percent.Asset management firm M...
Aug 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG’s front-load washer selected as best by Consumer Reports
LG Electronics Inc.'s front-load washers have seized the top four spots in the US consumer review conducted by Consumer Reports, earning the title o...
Aug 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
LG Energy Solution converts 56% of electricity into renewable energy
South Korea’s lithium-ion battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. on Monday released a report containing the company’s environmental, soci...
Aug 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
LG Electronics reduces 220,000 tons of CO2 emissions in 2022
LG Electronics Inc. reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 220,000 tons compared to the previous year at both domestic and overseas facilities. The...
Jul 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Macquarie seeks to sell off Korea’s tank terminal operator
Macquarie Korea Asset Management seeks to sell off a Korea tank terminal operator six years after the acquisition, at around 400 billion won ($314.8...
Jul 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Hanwha poised to secure Australian armored vehicle deal
Hanwha Aerospace Co. has taken a step closer to clinching an Australian armored vehicle supply contract as the government chose the South Korean def...
Jul 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
Mirae Asset’s global ETFs exceed $100 bn in net asset value
Mirae Asset Global Investments Co., South Korea’s leading asset manager, said on Tuesday its exchange-traded funds (ETFs) worldwide have surpa...
Jul 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
KKR Co-CEO Joe Bae meets NPS, KIC execs in S.Korea
KKR Co. Co-Chief Executive Joseph Bae made a visit to South Korea last week to meet with senior managers of the country’s top limited partners...
Jul 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
BOK chief says aging without assets key challenge to S.Koreans
JEJU -- South Korea’s central bank chief on Friday warned of the growing risk of aging without assets in Asia’s fourth-largest economy a...
Jul 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sovereign wealth funds
KIC up 8.3% in net value of stocks, debts in H1 2023
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) saw the net value of its traditional assets rise 8.25% in the first half of this year, backed by the strong perfo...
Jul 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
- 1 Samsung gears up for foray into space infrastructure industry
- 2 Hamilton Lane invests in IMM infrastructure fund
- 3 Seoul’s prime office transactions rise 6% in Q1 despite weak sentiment
- 4 S.Korea's crypto market doubles to $77.5 bn, with 20% of population trading
- 5 KIC discusses post-US tariff infrastructure strategy with pension funds