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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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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 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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[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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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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Korea to ease rules on insurers’ currency hedging of offshore investment
South Korea will loosen regulations in relation to the currency hedging of insurance companies’ cross-border investments, which have been blamed to in...
Jan 25, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea Teachers’ Pension to invest $75 mn in buying Australia’s office building
South Korea’s Teachers’ Pension will acquire an office building in Brisbane, Australia which the Brisbane city government has signed a con...
Jan 19, 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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Korea Investment-led firms to buy EU parliament building for $224 mn
A consortium of Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and Hana Asset Management Co. Ltd. are tapping domestic institutional investors to acquire ...
Jan 10, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea’s JB Asset to buy Comcast’s new office building in Denver for $72 mn
JB Asset Management Co. Ltd., a unit of a South Korean provincial bank, has been named as a preferred buyer of a new office building in Denver which C...
Jan 09, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea military fund mulls investing in PDF, NPL fund in 2017: report
The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), South Korea’s $8 billion savings fund, is studying investing in offshore private debt funds (PDFs) and non...
Dec 20, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea public officials’ fund sees 3-4 Europe property buys after $101 mn German deal
The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has signed a final agreement to acquire a 10-story office building in the southern part of Hamburg, Ge...
Dec 20, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea teachers’ fund to invest $52 mn in Europe bank loans-buying fund
Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) has decided to commit €50 million ($52.4 million) to a $1.5 billion~$2 billion fund which will take over senior s...
Dec 16, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blackstone may inject $200 mn into Korea fund for 6~7 logistics center purchase
The Blackstone Group L.P. is understood to commit about $200 million to a South Korean fund to finance its 70 billion won ($59 million) acquisition of...
Dec 15, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea teachers’ fund eyes CLOs, PEFs as market volatility seen up in 2017: report
Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU), the largest savings fund in South Korea, sets its eyes on offshore collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), priva...
Dec 15, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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KTB, Korea Investment launch $85 mn aircraft fund to buy Airbus A330
Two South Korean brokerage companies - KTB Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. – set up a $85 million ...
Dec 14, 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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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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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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Mizuho, Korea's Mertiz to launch $900 mn fund to buy 20 aircraft portfolio from GE
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...
Nov 07, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea scientists fund to put €25 mn into Europe infrastructure-investing FoF
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...
Oct 21, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea insurer buys shares in Lending Club, sees P2P loans as new alternative
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...
Oct 19, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)