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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...

Private debt products such as senior secured loans, collateralized loan obligation and mezzanine debt in the U.S. and European markets have become one...

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...

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...

The Police Mutual Aid Association (PMAA) of South Korea issued requests for proposals on July 1 for 100 billion won ($87 million) mandates that it wou...

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS), managing $6 billion of assets, will make an additional investment of about 430 billion won ...

South Korea’s private equity firm SkyLake Investment, which won an about $220 million mandate from the National Pension Service (NPS) this week, has b...

South Korea’s two local private equity firms, VIG Partners and SkyLake Investment, received 250 billion won ($216 million) mandates from the National ...

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...

CJ Group has jumped into a bidding war to acquire McDonald's Korea. According to investment banking sources on June 28, CJ Group had submitted a lette...

A savings fund in South Korea is studying raising its exposure to European equities, stocks and infrastructure assets after the Brexit decision, where...

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...

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) has awarded $50 million mandates each to Blackstone and Pomona Capital for global secondary ...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has replaced the head of its investment review committee recently with the Chief Investment Officer Do...

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...

South Korean insurance companies have been raising investments in overseas investments by more than 50% since the start of this year and also consider...

The Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) in South Korea is looking to overseas alternative assets to invest as much as 200 billion won (...

Blackstone has been chosen as the preferred bidder of a prime office building in downtown Seoul, in a deal estimated to fetch 460 billion~480 billion ...

The Korea Scientists and Engineers Mutual-aid Association (SEMA), overseeing 4 trillion won ($3.4 billion) in assets, is interested in property and re...

The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), South Korea’s $8 billion military savings fund, is planning to invest in offshore blind-pool venture capit...

Korea Fire Officials Credit Union, managing $520 million in assets, will boost its exposure to structured bonds and alternative assets in developed ma...

- On June 1, 2016, Korea Post’s insurance asset management bureau posts a request for proposal to invest in dollar-denominated sovereign bonds of emer...

South Korea’s Yellow Umbrella Mutual Aid is flexing its muscle to expand overseas alternative assets, including blind funds, in line with a rapid ...

Korea Post acquired a stake worth about $250 million of the office building in New York leased by online retailer Amazon, and expects the transaction...

Last week Korea Post, with 110 trillion won ($93 billion) of assets under management, announced four requests for proposal (RFPs) to choose general pa...

Korea Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU), which manages 22 trillion won (about $18 billion) of assets, is considering an equity investment in holding compa...

- On May 26, Korea Post says plans to commit about $100 mln to 1 to 3 funds, respectively - Investment to be focused in North America or Europe thr...

- Deadline to submit proposal is May 30, 2016; Final selection set for July 1, 2016 Korea Post announced a request for proposal on May 23 for its u...

- Proposed fund size at minimum $300 mln; proposal submissions due by June 7, 2016 - Funds currently in Korea Post Savings’ hedge fund pool not el...

- Proposal submission due by June 7, 2016; final selection set for July 2016 - To pick 2 firms for publicly-offered funds with minimum $300 mln AUM...