NPS fund management
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Shareholder activism
Local activist fund KCGI opposes Korean Air's sale of in-flight businesses
Korea Corporate Governance Improvement (KCGI), a local activist private equity fund, is unhappy with Korean Air Lines Co. Ltd's decision to sell ...
Jul 17, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Covid19
Korean pension funds relax due diligence to restart alternative investment
South Korean pension schemes and sovereign wealth fund KIC have recently restarted overseas alternative investments that had been suspended due to the...
Jul 17, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
CVC diversifies Korean funding sources beyond NPS and KIC
CVC Capital Partners has raised more than $175 million from three South Korean pension plans for its record $24 billion buyout fund, diversifying fund...
Jul 15, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carlyle Group
Carlyle raises $600 mn for infra credit fund with top Korean banking groups
The Carlyle Group has raised $600 million for an infrastructure credit fund in South Korea jointly with two domestic financial services firms to lend ...
Jul 13, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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EMP Belstar
Korean investors quickest to jump into new TALF fund: EMP Belstar
South Korean institutional investors have become the world's first group of investors in a fund related to the Federal Reserve's new Term Asset-B...
Jul 07, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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National Pension Service
NPS pays hefty performance bonus after strongest 2019 return
The National Pension Service is paying handsome performance bonuses to its internal investment staff after the world’s third-largest pension fun...
Jul 03, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investment
Tiger Alternative raises $100 million to invest in US structured fund
South Korea's Tiger Alternative Investors Co. Ltd has raised about $100 million from domestic retirement funds and insurance firms to invest in senior...
Jul 02, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sovereign wealth fund
KIC to form alternatives joint fund with Korea’s NongHyup
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is preparing to launch a joint fund with NongHyup, or the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, to invest i...
Jul 02, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investment
NPS ramps up alternative investment in Jan-April despite Covid-19
The National Pension Fund has significantly increased alternative investments in the first four months to April from a year earlier, which industry so...
Jul 01, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension fund
NPS and Allianz to set up $2.3 bn Asian property fund
The National Pension Service (NPS) is to launch a $2.3 billion property fund with Germany’s Allianz SE to invest in core real estate in Asia, wi...
Jun 29, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension fund
Former vice finance minister picked as NPS’ chief executive
Yong-jin Kim, who served as a vice finance minister of President Moon Jae-in’s government between mid-2017 and 2018, has been chosen as the Nati...
Jun 20, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investment
Money flows into alternative funds slow; regulator to up monitoring
Capital inflows into alternative investment funds in South Korea have slowed sharply so far this year compared with a year earlier due to coronavirus,...
Jun 16, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Federal Reserve
South Korean investors to put $580 mn in TALF fund
Hyundai Investments Co. Ltd. has collected $580 million from South Korean institutional investors to invest in a fund that buys securities with borrow...
Jun 05, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Ardian raises a record $19 billion for secondary fund of funds
Paris-based private equity firm Ardian has raised a record $19 billion for its new secondary fund of funds from 275 investors, including Korea Post an...
Jun 04, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset allocation
NPS boosts private debt and venture capital investment in Q1
The National Pension Service (NPS) has beefed up investments in private debt and venture capital funds by adding Antares Capital Advisers and Insight ...
Jun 03, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hedge fund
NPS adds Select Equity to single-manager hedge fund roster in Q1
New York-based Select Equity Group joined the roster of the National Pension Service’s (NPS) global alternative investment companies as a single...
Jun 03, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset allocation
NPS logs negative Q1 investment return on stock market plunge
The National Pension Service (NPS) reported a negative 6.08% return on investment in the first three months of this year, weighed down by double-digit...
Jun 01, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
[Interview] Real estate funds may bear brunt of Covid 19 in Q4: military fund
The coronavirus impact will likely spill over to the commercial real estate market around the fourth quarter of this year, with a spike in office vaca...
May 27, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
MBK closes Asia's 3rd biggest buyout fund at $6.5 bn
MBK Partners held the final close of its fifth buyout fund at $6.5 billion on May 20, which marked the third-biggest fundraising for an Asia-focused p...
May 21, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset allocation
NPS to ramp up global equities exposure over next 5 years
The National Pension Service (NPS) will continue to raise exposure to global equities over the next five years, despite concerns about the impact of t...
May 21, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
MBK Partners sees 2nd special situations fund launch in H2
North Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners is looking to launch its second special situations fund in the second half of this year to capital...
May 20, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
Singapore’s Vickers Venture tapping Korean institutions for $500 mn fund
Vickers Venture Partners, a Singapore-based venture capital firm, is tapping South Korean institutional investors in the second round of fundraising t...
May 19, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Air
US hedge fund calls on Korean Air to sell baggage handling unit
A US hedge fund with a stake in Korea Airport Service Co. Ltd. (KAS), a majority owned by Korean Air Lines Co. Ltd., is calling on the carrier to sell...
May 11, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension fund
NPS restarts alternative investment with Portugal and Manhattan deals
The National Pension Service has invested at least one billion dollars in aggregate in a Portuguese toll road operator and a property redevelopment pr...
May 07, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
[RFP] Korea Post seeks PE secondary funds for $200 mn mandate
Korea Post’s insurance arm plans to select two global private equity funds to invest up to $200 million in private equity secondary markets in 2...
Apr 28, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Sovereign wealth funds to boost post-Covid-19 cooperation: KIC
Chief executives of sovereign wealth funds, including China Investment Corp. and Singapore’s GIC, and leading financial institutions have discus...
Apr 28, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
Canada and Dutch pension funds to launch $1 bn Korean logistics JV with ESR
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), the Netherlands’ APG and China’s logistics property developer ESR have agreed to s...
Apr 24, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investment
Mirae Asset leads $23 mn funding for Indian food delivery startup
Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd. has led a $23 million investment in Indian food delivery platform Swiggy by South Korean companies in their first investme...
Apr 08, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Outbound real estate funds hit by first capital outflow in over 4 years
South Korea’s real estate funds for outbound investment saw their first net capital outflows in four and a half years in March, hit by delays in...
Apr 06, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hedge fund
NPS makes first single-manager hedge fund investment with $810 mn
The National Pension Service committed about 1 trillion won ($810 million) to four global hedge fund houses in 2019, in its first investment in single...
Apr 03, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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