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Korea Teachers’ Pension to invest $100 mn in Crescent Capital mezzanine fund
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...
Aug 31, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Competition for NPS investment division’s new hires at its lowest
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has drawn slightly over 200 applicants for about 30 positions opened at its fund management division, hit...
Aug 26, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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TPG picks son of ex-Samsung vice chairman to lead Korea investment
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...
Aug 25, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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[RFP] Korea Post invites bids for $450 mn US first mortgage co-investment
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...
Aug 24, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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US bank loans, asset-based credit whet appetite of Korean investors
South Korean institutional investors are gearing up to raise exposure to U.S. bank loans, collateralized loan obligation (CLO) and commercial mortgage...
Aug 18, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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[RFP] Korea Post seeks 3 management firms for overseas CLO investment
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...
Aug 17, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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NPS seeks higher pay raise for in-house fund managers ahead of office relocation
The National Pension Service (NPS) is pushing forward a plan to raise the basic pay for in-house fund management staff by about 9% on average in 2016,...
Aug 02, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea’s public pension funds to explore joint overseas, alternative investment – fin ministry
South Korea’s public pension funds, including the National Pension Service (NPS) and pension schemes for government officials and military personnel, ...
Aug 02, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Ex-NPS investment strategy head to lead non-equity portfolios of Korean asset firm
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...
Jul 27, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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What makes Korean asset owners hesitate to invest in hedge funds?
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 ...
Jul 26, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Top Korean investors to meet UK asset managers in London on July 22
Sang-Hyun Yoo, the new global alternative division head of the National Pension Service (NPS) and senior managers of other top South Korean instit...
Jul 22, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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KIC sees regulation change to qualify KIC, Korean pension funds managers for CIO job
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has recently asked the finance ministry to revise part of regulations governing the sovereign wealth fund in order ...
Jul 15, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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NPS replaces global alternative head in internal moves of senior managers
The National Pension Service (NPS) appointed its domestic alternative division head, Sang-Hyun Yoo, as the new head of the global alternative division...
Jul 12, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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BlackRock, Grosvenor picked as NPS’ fund of hedge fund managers
The National Pension Service (NPS) finally selected BlackRock Alternative Advisors and Grosvenor Capital Management on July 11 as the general partners...
Jul 11, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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[RFP] Korea's govt pension seeks $100 mn offshore mezzanine fund managers
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...
Jul 07, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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[RFP] Korea’s GEPS seeks $170 mn fund of funds managers of global stocks, bonds
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...
Jul 05, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea Post names new insurance asset head from within; 3rd replacement in 1 year
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...
Jul 05, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea’s GEPS CIO says to invest fresh $375 mn in alternatives in 2016
South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS), managing $6 billion of assets, will make an additional investment of about 430 billion won ...
Jul 04, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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[Interview] Korea savings funds see UK asset price drop after Brexit, awaiting buy timing
South Korea’s key savings funds have decided to put on hold investments in Europe shortly after the Brexit vote on the prospect of a further decline i...
Jun 29, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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[Editor’s Note] Frustrated at shrinking returns, investment money are flowing out of Korea
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...
Jun 23, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blackstone, Pomona win mandates for Korea GEPS’ $100 mn investment
South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) has awarded $50 million mandates each to Blackstone and Pomona Capital for global secondary ...
Jun 23, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea funds seek investment experts from outside; CIOs chair review committees
The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has replaced the head of its investment review committee recently with the Chief Investment Officer Do...
Jun 23, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea police fund to invest $87 mn in blind funds
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...
Jun 23, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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China Minsheng Investment to invest in SK Planet
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...
Jun 23, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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[Korean Money Going Abroad] Korea insurers up overseas investments, eyeing foreign asset managers
South Korean insurance companies have been raising investments in overseas investments by more than 50% since the start of this year and also consider...
Jun 22, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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[Korean Money Going Abroad] NPS to slash net increase in Korean stock investment by 95% in 2017
South Korean investors, led by the National Pension Service (NPS), have been ramping up overseas investments while trimming domestic portfolios, a mov...
Jun 22, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea construction workers’ fund may allot $170 mn to alternatives in 2016
The Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) in South Korea is looking to overseas alternative assets to invest as much as 200 billion won (...
Jun 22, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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[Editor's Note] Moves: KIC greets new CIO; NPS lets three senior managers go, ahead of office relocation
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), South Korea’s sovereign wealth fund managing $96 billion foreign exchange reserves, has recently named Kang Shin-w...
Jun 16, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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[Interview] World Bank’s new investment head calls for review of investment period, risk limit
Incoming World Bank’s director of the investment management division, Heung-sik Choo, said that the international financial institution, which man...
Jun 16, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mirae Asset-led funds on buying spree of overseas property, including Amazon HQ building in Seattle
A consortium of South Korean institutional investors, led by Mirae Asset Global Investments, has recently closed a deal worth about $245 million to bu...
Jun 15, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)