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South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) and Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co. Ltd. are likely ...

Four South Korean institutional investors will acquire 100 billion won ($88 million) worth of senior debts secured on two US gas-fired power plants fr...

The Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) of South Korea on April 24 appointed Chang-hoon Lee, a former head of US Prudential Financial’s previo...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA), the Korea Scientists and Engineers Mutual-aid Association and other South Korean institutional invest...

The Military Mutual Aid Association’s (MMAA) former equity head Jae Dong Kim was installed this month as its first chief investment officer chosen fro...

Three South Korean insurance firms have invested 115 billion won ($102 million) in senior secured debts of a building in Manhattan, New York which is ...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has introduced new requirements to foreign bond managers that they have South Korean subsidiaries which will not be...

The Public Officials Benefit Association and the Korea Scientists and Engineers Mutual-aid Association have decided to invest $50 million and $30 mill...

South Korean investment firms, which have recently snapped up prime office buildings and warehouses in the US and Europe, are struggling to raise capi...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA), a South Korean savings fund for government employees, has wrapped up its selection of five overseas p...

Funds of funds (FoFs) investing in insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds have been luring yield-hungry wealthy South Koreans, with domestic brokerag...

NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and a federation of credit cooperative in South Korea have extended about 50 billion won ($44 million) of loan...

Kyobo Life Insurance Co. Ltd. and other South Korean institutions have invested 100 billion won ($87 million) in mezzanine debts backed by an Amazon-o...

Four South Korean institutional investors, including KDB Life Insurance Co. Ltd. and Allianz Life Insurance Co. Ltd., will invest $83 million in m...

South Korea’s Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) will find a successor of the retiring Chief Investment Officer, Sang-ho Lee, inside its organizat...

Partners Group, a Switzerland-based investment firm, is looking to raise a further €655 million ($689 million) in March for the final close of it...

Low foreign ownership, swelling assets at South Korean institutional investors and small office space per worker all point to growth potential for...

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 &...

MBK Partners, Asia’s biggest private equity firm, has offered close to 2 trillion won ($1.7 billion) to buy South Korea’s second-largest industrial ga...

Hanwha Life Insurance Co Ltd., Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co. Ltd. and other South Korean institutional investors will jointly acquire a 4.7%...

NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and KEB Hana Bank have made $35 million senior loans each to two power generation facilities near Chicago, acc...

Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co. Ltd. has recently committed €50 million ($53 million) to a €7 billion buyout fund which British private equity...

South Korean institutional investors, including the Korean Scientists and Engineers Mutual-aid Association, Nonghyup Life Insurance Co. Ltd. and Lotte...

The two insurance arms of South Korea’s agricultural cooperative, Nonghyup Life Insurance Co. Ltd and Nonghyup Property & Casualty Insurance Co. L...

Hana Financial Investment’s participation in the recent $1 billion debt financing for a US gas-fired power facility as a lead arranger has made it...

The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) will set up a $1 billion joint venture with the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America - Colle...

The recently-closed financing for two US natural gas-fired power plants under construction have attracted a group of South Korean institutional invest...

Blackstone Group has attracted New York State Teachers’ Retirement System (NYSTRS), US insurer MIRAS and a South Korean government employees’ fund to ...

South Korean institutional investors, one of aggressive cross-border buyers of US and European real estate in recent years, are quickly shifting towar...

South Korean brokerage firms, on the buying spree of US and European real estate, will roll out public real estate funds in the coming months to sell ...