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[ASK 2017 SUMMIT Panel Talks] KIC may pick small hedge fund managers
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is looking at small and medium-sized hedge fund managers to take a bigger chunk of a deal, and the sovereign wealth...
May 23, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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POBA selects 7 global private equity fund managers for $300 mn
The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has picked seven global private equity fund houses to invest $300 million in five different strategies...
May 18, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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[RFP] Korea Post seeks global private debt fund managers for up to $300 mn
Korea Post's savings unit announced a plan on May 17 to invest up to $300 million in overseas private debt funds focusing on mezzanine and distresse...
May 17, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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[RFP] Korea Post seeks global fund of hedge fund managers
Korea Post’s insurance unit on May 8 posted a request for proposals of multi-strategy funds of hedge funds. It will receive proposals by 5 pm, May 19...
May 08, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea construction workers’ fund to pick two debt fund managers for $70 mn
(Corrected: The CWMA source on April 13 corrected the timetable of the planned debt manager selection to “soon”, and added that it has already begun t...
Apr 13, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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[RFP] Korea Post seeks global private equity FoF managers for $200 mn
Korea Post’s insurance unit is planning to commit about $100 million each to two multi-strategy global funds of funds (FoFs) employing primary, second...
Apr 07, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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KIC picks $400 mn global bond managers among firms with Korean subsidiaries
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has introduced new requirements to foreign bond managers that they have South Korean subsidiaries which will not be...
Apr 06, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea's POBA in screening overseas PEF managers to commit $300 mn
The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) is screening investment proposals from overseas private equity fund managers to entrust a combined $30...
Mar 30, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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[Interview] Lotte’s insurance arm eyes US infrastructure, private debts for low-risk alternatives
Lotte Non-Life Insurance Co. Ltd., a unit of South Korea’s retail giant Lotte Group, is looking to US infrastructure and private debt markets in Europ...
Mar 07, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea Post plans to select multi-strategy fund of hedge fund managers
Korea Post’s insurance unit is preparing to pick global fund-of-hedge-fund managers using multi-strategy and will soon determine the amount of investm...
Mar 03, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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[RFP] Korea’s GEPS seeks $160 mn offshore private debt fund managers
South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) will select two global private debt fund managers employing opportunistic strategies to inve...
Feb 21, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean investors mull investing in Ares Management’s $2.5 bn US private debt fund
South Korean institutional investors, including the Korean Scientists and Engineers Mutual-aid Association, Nonghyup Life Insurance Co. Ltd. and Lotte...
Jan 30, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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KIC, NPS agree not to hire each other’s ex-fund managers: report
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), a sovereign wealth fund, has agreed with the National Pension Service (NPS) not to employ each other’s former inve...
Jan 26, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea Post’s savings arm targets 2-3% medium-risk assets; keen on CMBS, CLO: report
Korea Post’s Savings Bureau has been shifting overseas investment focus into relatively low-risk assets such as fixed-income assets since last year to...
Jan 12, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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NPS picks Albourne Partners to review hedge fund risks
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has selected London-based consultancy, Albourne Partners Ltd., as an advisor to undertake operational due...
Jan 09, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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NPS puts aside 2017 asset management plans after chief detained
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has indefinitely postponed a committee meeting set for Dec. 30 aimed at reviewing this year’s investment ...
Dec 29, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea Post awards $300 mn mandates to 3 private debt managers
Korea Post’s savings arm has awarded offshore private debt mandates worth a combined $300 million to Guggenheim Partners, Park Square Capital and Part...
Nov 18, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean asset manager set to buy NASA headquarters building for about $350 mn
KTB Asset Management Co. Ltd. has been picked as the preferred buyer of the NASA headquarters building in Washington D.C. on behalf of small-sized Sou...
Oct 27, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea public officials’ fund picks $40 mn cat bond managers
Three private equity firms – LGT Capital Management, Leadenhall Capital Partners and Nephila Capital – have been chosen as the preferred managers of t...
Oct 17, 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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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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[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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[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)