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Korea Post’s savings arm has awarded offshore private debt mandates worth a combined $300 million to Guggenheim Partners, Park Square Capital and Part...

The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) and the National Pension Service (NPS) have bought equity stakes in a fund launched to buy a ...

Mizuho Securities Co. Ltd. and South Korea’s Meritz Securities Co. Ltd. will set up a fund of about $900 million to acquire a 20 aircraft portfolio fr...

A South Korean asset management firm is raising a €100 million ($110 million) fund to invest in the Pan-European Infrastructure Fund (PEIF) II of a De...

South Korea’s Hanwha Life Insurance Co. Ltd. has bought a 4.1% stake in U.S. Lending Club Corp., the world’s largest peer-to-peer (P2P) lender, for ar...

The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) will commit $50 million to a blind-pool fund that Neuberger Berman is in the process of raising, and other So...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has selected Crescent Capital Group, Falcon Private Equity and GoldPoint Partners to invest a total of...

Three private equity firms – LGT Capital Management, Leadenhall Capital Partners and Nephila Capital – have been chosen as the preferred managers of t...

South Korea’s Police Mutual Aid Association (PMAA), a $2 billion savings fund, is interested in sovereign debt of emerging economies, and will put eff...

Korea Post has invested a total of 998.6 billion won ($888 million) in overseas commercial buildings since 2013, the vast majority of which involved e...

South Korea’s Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) will acquire 57 billion won ($51 million) worth of equity stakes in two domestic fund...

Asia-based alternative investment firm Pacific Alliance Group (PAG) is teaming up with a South Korean brokerage company to launch about a 200 billion ...

(Updated to clarify the fund-raising is still underway, based on a comment from a source with knowledge on the matter) KB Asset Management, a unit ...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), South Korea’s sovereign wealth fund, has lodged a lawsuit against Volkswagen on behalf of the South Korean governm...

South Korea’s police savings fund has appointed a former fixed-income head of Samsung Asset Management as its first chief investment officer fro...

A real estate mezzanine fund of Brookfield Asset Management, for which the private investment firm is aiming to raise $2 billion globally, is expected...

Korea Post’s savings arm has been chosen as the preferred buyer of the headquarters building of France’s Natixis in Paris, in a deal worth 230 billion...

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...

Blackstone, the world’s largest real estate investment firm, has attracted 1 trillion won ($900 million) from South Korean institutional investors for...

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...

The Carlyle Group has recently embarked on due diligence of South Korea’s Logen Co. Ltd. for a possible acquisition, following another private equity ...

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...

South Korea’s Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) will invest €40 million in Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 5 (MEIF5) that is aiming to rai...

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...

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) has selected Daishin Asset Management and Shinhan BNP Paribas Asset Management as general pa...

South Korean pension and savings funds are piling into short-term notes backed by time deposits at Chinese banks, lured by higher deposit rates from C...

South Korea’s public pension funds, including the National Pension Service (NPS) and pension schemes for government officials and military personnel, ...

The Yellow Umbrella Mutual Aid is looking for stock management firms to invest a total of about 100 billion won ($88 million) and pick up to four fund...

The Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) and the Teachers’ Pension have brought a joint action against Daewoo Shipbuilding for $19 mill...

Three to four South Korean institutions, including asset management firm Hyundai Investments, have put on hold a planned joint purchase of an office b...