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NPS buys stake in One Vanderbilt in NYC for $500 mn
The National Pension Service has secured a second-largest shareholder position with a 27-percent stake in a landmark building currently under construc...
Jan 31, 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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NPS to empower overseas offices to speed up cross-border deals
The National Pension Service (NPS) has announced a plan to give its foreign offices more authority so that they can propose investment ideas directly ...
Jan 20, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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NPS, KIC commit $371 mn to BC Partners’ $7.4 bn buyout fund
The National Pension Service (NPS) and the Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), two major South Korean investors, were confirmed to invest a combined &...
Jan 10, 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 concerned over loss of trust; CIO calls for going back to basics
The ongoing investigations into the National Pension Service (NPS) by special prosecutors have crippled the South Korean fund’s operations, and its ch...
Jan 03, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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NPS promotes domestic alternative head to lead investment strategy
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) appointed Soo-Cheol Lee, who leads domestic alternative investments, as the new head of the pension fund’...
Jan 02, 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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NPS fund division's 2nd in command offers to quit; tapped as NH Investment’s PE head
The National Pension Service’s (NPS) investment strategy head, Young-Sig Yang, has recently tendered a resignation and was appointed as the private eq...
Dec 14, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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MBK Partners closes $4.1 bn fund, above funding target; NPS opts out
Asia’s biggest private equity firm, MBK Partners, has raised $4.1 billion for its fourth fund, exceeding the target of $3.5 billion and more than ...
Dec 07, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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KKR’s securitized debt attracts $210 mn from Korea’s Lotte, Hana: report
South Korea’s Hana Asset Management Co. Ltd. will invest $110 million in principal-protected debt issued by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) & Co. on...
Nov 30, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chronology: Korea’s sprawling political scandal hits NPS over Samsung units’ merger
The following are key events in relation to Samsung C&T Corporation’s takeover of affiliate Cheil Industries Inc. in 2015, and prosecutors’ invest...
Nov 29, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Q&A: NPS embroiled in Korea’s political scandal over Samsung units’ merger
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension scheme with $460 billion in assets under management, is engulfed in on...
Nov 29, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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GIC, NPS invest $136 mn each in Korea’s retail complex near Seoul
The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) and the National Pension Service (NPS) have bought equity stakes in a fund launched to buy a ...
Nov 17, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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NPS sees alternative divisions regrouped by asset class, creating deputy CIO roles
The National Pension Service (NPS) is seeking to reclassify its alternative investment divisions, currently divided into domestic and global assets, i...
Nov 15, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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[Interview] NPS eyes equity stakes in foreign infrastructure firms: CIO
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) will chase equity stakes in foreign companies running power, harbor and road projects, as it is seeking t...
Oct 24, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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[ASK 2016 SUMMIT] NPS slows offshore property purchase; calls for customized proposal from GPs
The global alternative investment head of the National Pension Service (NPS), Sang-Hyun Yoo, cautioned about the heightened competition and price spik...
Oct 23, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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NPS, KIC global alternative heads to discuss property, infrastructure outlook in Oct 20 summit
Keymen of major South Korean institutional investors, including the National Pension Service (NPS), Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) and Korea Post,...
Oct 07, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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NPS to invest $100 mn in consumer-focused L Catterton’s $2.5 bn fund
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) will commit $100 million to a new fund that L Catterton, a consumer-focused private equity firm, is curre...
Oct 07, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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NPS confirmed to join €3.2 bn joint lawsuit against Volkswagen
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension scheme, has joined the California pension fund CalPERS and other insti...
Sep 30, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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NPS, CIC joint fund invests in A$9.7 bn Australian port deal
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has invested A$500 million in a deal of securing a 50-year-lease on Australia’s biggest container and car...
Sep 20, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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KEPCO taps NPS-led fund to buy US solar power plant for $35 mn
Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) has signed an agreement to buy a U.S. solar power plant from private equity firm Carlyle Group for $35 million, in ...
Aug 30, 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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NPS to put €250 mn in Macquarie Europe fund; drops Nice airport stake buy plan
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has decided to commit €250 million to Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 5 (MEIF5) that is aiming to ...
Aug 24, 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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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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NPS’ stock concentration in Samsung, top conglomerates deepens in H1, 2016
The units of the Samsung Group made up a quarter of the National Pension Service’s (NPS) Korean stock holdings in value in the first half of this year...
Jul 21, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Brookfield tipped to buy IFC Seoul for about $3 bn: CIC, NPS may join financing
Asset management firm Brookfield has made a bid “far higher than market expected” to buy a landmark in central Seoul, IFC Seoul, from the ...
Jul 18, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Knowledge transfer was key factor of NPS’ $1 bn fund of fund GP selection – sources
The National Pension Service (NPS) put top priority on “knowledge transfer,” along with the performance of funds when it picked BlackRock Financial Ma...
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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