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Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. is preparing to launch a 300 billion won ($252 million) vehicle to invest in a European infrastructure fund.Accordi...

Hanwha Life Insurance Co. Ltd., South Korea’s second-biggest life insurer, has committed around $400 million to KKR & Co.’s new Asia b...

The National Pension Service (NPS) has committed between $100 million and $200 million to an energy and infrastructure fund set up by UK-based private...

The National Pension Service needs to be split to enhance the efficiency of the South Korean state pension fund’s operations and reduce its heav...

Activist fund Korea Corporate Governance Improvement (KCGI) and mid-sized builder Bando Engineering & Construction have succeeded in their pu...

SK Hynix Inc. has recently participated in a $60 million funding for the US semiconductor startup SiFive, SK Hynix said on August 12.Saudi Aramco and ...

South Korea's jobless claims payments topped 1 trillion won ($842 million) for the third consecutive month in July, threatening to widen the shortfall...

South Korea’s largest waste treatment company EMC Holdings Co. Ltd. has drawn binding bids from Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Area (PIA) Gr...

(On August 25, Korea Post extended the deadline for submitting proposals for its global debt investment mandate to August 31, 2020 from August 19, 202...

Local institutional investors have injected $500 million (600 billion won) into a special purpose company to invest in diverse funds managed by privat...

A Korean activist fund that failed to oust Hanjin KAL's current management during a shareholder meeting in March is trying to increase its stake ...

Watcha, a Korean streaming platform, is gearing up to tap into Japan and Southeast Asian markets following the completion of Series D funding worth 19...

Major South Korean pension funds and insurers are planning to expand offshore infrastructure portfolios next year, and zooming in on aircraft finance ...

KB Securities Co. Ltd. has claimed damages arising from the alleged breach of contract over an Australian real investment fund after it returned 90.4 ...

Korea Corporate Governance Improvement (KCGI), a local activist private equity fund, is unhappy with Korean Air Lines Co. Ltd's decision to sell ...

South Korean pension schemes and sovereign wealth fund KIC have recently restarted overseas alternative investments that had been suspended due to the...

CVC Capital Partners has raised more than $175 million from three South Korean pension plans for its record $24 billion buyout fund, diversifying fund...

The Carlyle Group has raised $600 million for an infrastructure credit fund in South Korea jointly with two domestic financial services firms to lend ...

South Korean institutional investors have become the world's first group of investors in a fund related to the Federal Reserve's new Term Asset-B...

South Korea's Tiger Alternative Investors Co. Ltd has raised about $100 million from domestic retirement funds and insurance firms to invest in senior...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is preparing to launch a joint fund with NongHyup, or the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, to invest i...

The National Pension Service (NPS) is to launch a $2.3 billion property fund with Germany’s Allianz SE to invest in core real estate in Asia, wi...

Capital inflows into alternative investment funds in South Korea have slowed sharply so far this year compared with a year earlier due to coronavirus,...

Singapore’s Keppel Infrastructure and MBK Partners are among 15-odd preliminary bidders for South Korea’s largest wastewater treatment com...

Hyundai Investments Co. Ltd. has collected $580 million from South Korean institutional investors to invest in a fund that buys securities with borrow...

Paris-based private equity firm Ardian has raised a record $19 billion for its new secondary fund of funds from 275 investors, including Korea Post an...

New York-based Select Equity Group joined the roster of the National Pension Service’s (NPS) global alternative investment companies as a single...

The coronavirus impact will likely spill over to the commercial real estate market around the fourth quarter of this year, with a spike in office vaca...

South Korea’s Teachers’ Pension will chase infrastructure facilities and industrial park properties in developed countries for overseas al...

MBK Partners held the final close of its fifth buyout fund at $6.5 billion on May 20, which marked the third-biggest fundraising for an Asia-focused p...