Korean conglomerates

Three big South Korean lenders have lent a $85 million club loan to ALAFCO, a Kuwait-based aircraft leasing company, which recently raised $115 millio...

A consortium of Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. and Hyundai Asset Management Co. Ltd. has recently closed a $238 million acquisition of an office t...

A majority of leading South Korean institutional investors are planning to boost overseas infrastructure investment next year with focus on developed ...

South Korea’s office building market is poised to continue its record-breaking growth, buoyed by heavy money inflows from overseas investors and the c...

A consortium of London-based Valesco Group and South Korea’s AIP Asset Management has acquired Microsoft’s headquarter office in Britain for 100 milli...

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. and NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. have extended 99 million euros ($115 million) in a three-year loan to f...

The National Pension Service (NPS) and the Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) will form a 350 billion won ($314 million) blind-pool fund to i...

Union Station in Washington D.C., InterContinental Boston and luxury hotel Grosvenor House in London are among the landmark commercial buildings that ...

A consortium led by Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. will provide UK-based Octopus Investments with 160 billion won ($142 million) solar por...

Swedish private equity firm EQT Partners is gathering €60 million ($70 million) from two South Korean retirement funds and seeking to raise an additio...

The Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) and other South Korean institutional investors have invested 70 billion won ($62 million) to bu...

HNA Group has sold a Minneapolis office tower to Samsung SRA Asset Management Co. Ltd. for $320 million and is now tapping South Korean institutional ...

South Korean asset owners are increasingly turning to non-dollar assets because the weakening US dollar erodes expected returns after currency hedging...

Major South Korean institutional investors plan to raise exposure further to credit investments in search of steady cashflows and expect to see more i...

The Teachers’ Pension and the Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) are turning to the Asian private equity market with focus on growth sectors such ...

South Korean institutional investors, including the Teachers’ Pension and insurance companies, are set to reap a profit of more than €106 million ($12...

An independent South Korean investment firm has become the first institutional shareholder in Hyundai Mobis Co. Ltd. publicly supporting the Hyundai M...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is looking into whether Elliott Management’s recent move against the South Korean government constitutes a conflict...

New York-based StepStone Group has raised $90 million in commitments from three South Korean institutional investors since the start of this year, inc...

Thae Khwarg, a former head of Barings’ South Korean asset management arm, is highly likely to be named as chief investment officer of the National P...

Three South Korean lenders – KDB Bank, Woori Bank and Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) - have recently provided a combined $130 million in direct loan...

The Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) and Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. have invested around 38 billion won ($36 million...

MG Korean Federation of Community Credit Cooperatives, which manages $50 billion of assets, named Sang-hun Kim, a former managing director and head of...

South Korea’s construction materials company, Aju Group, closed a $87 million acquisition of a hotel near Seattle from Marriott International Inc. las...

South Korean retirement funds and insurance companies, including the Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA), are set to buy a 20% stake in th...

The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) has recently committed $50 million to a new fund of Dyal Capital Partners, part of US-based investment firm N...

JR AMC Co. Ltd., a South Korean real estate investment trust (REIT), has acquired an office building used as the headquarters of Porr AG, a European c...

Singapore’s GIC and M&G Real Estate of London-based Prudential Plc. are in the bidding for a new office building in South Korea, wholly owned by t...

The Military Mutual Aid Association, the Employment Insurance Fund and an unidentified South Korean institutional investor have committed a total of $...

Three global private equity firms – Blackstone, Carlyle and TPG – have gathered an aggregate $113 million in commitments from South Korean institution...