Korea investors overseas asset
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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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[Interview] Hana Asset bets on retail demand for overseas real estate
The asset management unit of South Korea’s Hana Financial Group is preparing to launch two new public funds investing in overseas real estate, betting...
Apr 03, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea public officials fund set to buy Belgium building for $117 mn
The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has been recently named as a preferred buyer of an office complex in Brussels, Belgium, in a 130 billi...
Mar 30, 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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Korea to ease capital reserve rules for insurers’ overseas infrastructure assets
South Korea’s top financial regulator will cut reserve requirements by half for insurance firms’ cross-border infrastructure assets from as early as J...
Mar 28, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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[Interview] ING Life Korea seeks equity investments in US, Europe core real estate
ING Life Insurance Korea Ltd. sees core office buildings and infrastructure in the US and Europe remaining as attractive targets even in the periods o...
Mar 24, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean asset firms strive to fund property deals as institutions step back
South Korean investment firms, which have recently snapped up prime office buildings and warehouses in the US and Europe, are struggling to raise capi...
Mar 22, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea’s first Australia property fund for retail investors raises $125 mn
Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. has raised 141 billion won ($125 million) as planned from a domestic public fund launched to finance its $245 ...
Mar 20, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean institutions partake in US fund’s buyout deal as financial investors: report
NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and a federation of credit cooperative in South Korea have extended about 50 billion won ($44 million) of loan...
Mar 20, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea Post awards $436 mn real estate debt mandates to three US firms
The asset management units of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA), Prudential Financial Inc., and New York Life Insurance...
Mar 16, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aircraft funds in Korea quadruple in 4 yrs; overheating concern sets in
Aviation finance funds are expected to attract another billions of dollars from South Korean investors this year to a cumulative $3.9 billion, driven ...
Mar 15, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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[Interview] CVC keen on e-commerce, healthcare, consumer brands in Korea
CVC Capital Partners is interested in electronic commerce, healthcare and services sectors in South Korea because of their growth potential, and willi...
Mar 13, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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[RFP] Korea Post seeks to invest about $90 mn in offshore insurance-linked securities
Korea Post’s savings unit has decided to commit about 100 billion won ($87 mn) to investment firms managing or marketing offshore insurance-linked sec...
Mar 07, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mirae Asset Daewoo likely to buy Vodafone Campus in Germany for $303 mn
South Korea’s brokerage firm Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd. was selected as a preferred buyer of the office tower of Vodafone Group in Dusseldorf, German...
Mar 06, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea’s GEPS hires ex-NPS’ NY office head to lead global investment division
South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) has named a former senior investment manager of the National Pension Service (NPS), who had ...
Mar 04, 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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NPS’ 2016 overseas alternative investment return drops to 12.34%
Overseas alternative investments remained the best-performing segment for South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) for the third consecutive year ...
Mar 02, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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NPS rejects $177 mn debt for Carlyle’s refinancing of ADT Korea
The National Pension Service’s (NPS) rejection last week of 200 billion won ($177 million) investment in ADT Korea, owned by the Carlyle Group, has ca...
Mar 01, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Veteran Korean real estate investor sees growth in Seoul office building market
Low foreign ownership, swelling assets at South Korean institutional investors and small office space per worker all point to growth potential for...
Feb 28, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean banks flex muscles for alternative assets; Kookmin, Shinhan may invest in KKR’s fund
South Korea’s Kookmin Bank and Shinhan Bank are consdering investing 30 billion won ($26 million) each to a private equity buyout fund which KKR &...
Feb 23, 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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Real estate exhibition Cityscape Korea 2017 to be held in August
About 300 firms from 20 countries, including the United States and China, will take part in the Cityscape Korea 2017, set for August 17 to 19, 2017 in...
Feb 21, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea public officials' fund sees $200 mn allocation to cat bonds, private debt funds in H2
South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) is most likely to select global asset managers to invest about $200 million on aggregate in ...
Feb 16, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea public officials’ fund says interested in Australia infrastructure, offshore debt funds
(Corrected: Numbers in the first and third paragraphs were corrected to $500 to $600 million, and $880 million, respectively) The Public Officials ...
Feb 14, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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[Interview] Hanwha Life targets senior secured debt; sees $1 bn net growth in 2017 alternative asset
Hanwha Life Insurance Co. Ltd., which manages 100 trillion won ($87 billion) of assets, will chase senior secured debts of commercial buildings in dev...
Feb 14, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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AMP Capital’s Australia infrastructure fund tipped to raise $76 mn from Korea
An infrastructure fund managed by Australia-based AMP Capital is expected to attract about 87 billion won ($76 million) from South Korean investors, i...
Feb 12, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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[Interview] Mirae Asset Life eyes US power plants, buildings to boost overseas investment
(This is the first in a series of interviews with CIOs of South Korea’s leading insurance companies in 2017.) Mirae Asset Life Insurance Co. Ltd., ...
Feb 10, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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[Exclusive]NPS invests $300 mn in TeamHealth as co-investor with Blackstone
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has agreed to buy a 10% stake in TeamHealth Holdings Inc. for about $300 million, in a joint investment i...
Feb 06, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mirae Asset poised to buy office building in Canberra for $245 mn
South Korea’s Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. has been picked as the preferred buyer of a 12-story office building in Canberra, which is entir...
Feb 05, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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KTB Asset jointly acquires $68.5 mn debt of NY building from Blackstone
South Korea’s KTB Asset Management Co. Ltd. and two other domestic institutions have invested about $68.5 million in mezzanine debt secured by a Manha...
Feb 05, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)