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Samsung Electronics Co. is narrowing gaps fast with Sony Corp., the global leader in image sensors, which are widely used in smartphone cameras and ot...

Local institutional investors have injected $500 million (600 billion won) into a special purpose company to invest in diverse funds managed by privat...

A Korean activist fund that failed to oust Hanjin KAL's current management during a shareholder meeting in March is trying to increase its stake ...

Watcha, a Korean streaming platform, is gearing up to tap into Japan and Southeast Asian markets following the completion of Series D funding worth 19...

KB Securities Co. Ltd. has claimed damages arising from the alleged breach of contract over an Australian real investment fund after it returned 90.4 ...

Korea Corporate Governance Improvement (KCGI), a local activist private equity fund, is unhappy with Korean Air Lines Co. Ltd's decision to sell ...

South Korean pension schemes and sovereign wealth fund KIC have recently restarted overseas alternative investments that had been suspended due to the...

CVC Capital Partners has raised more than $175 million from three South Korean pension plans for its record $24 billion buyout fund, diversifying fund...

The Carlyle Group has raised $600 million for an infrastructure credit fund in South Korea jointly with two domestic financial services firms to lend ...

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...

South Korea's Tiger Alternative Investors Co. Ltd has raised about $100 million from domestic retirement funds and insurance firms to invest in senior...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is preparing to launch a joint fund with NongHyup, or the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, to invest i...

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...

Capital inflows into alternative investment funds in South Korea have slowed sharply so far this year compared with a year earlier due to coronavirus,...

Hyundai Investments Co. Ltd. has collected $580 million from South Korean institutional investors to invest in a fund that buys securities with borrow...

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...

New York-based Select Equity Group joined the roster of the National Pension Service’s (NPS) global alternative investment companies as a single...

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...

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...

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...

Vickers Venture Partners, a Singapore-based venture capital firm, is tapping South Korean institutional investors in the second round of fundraising t...

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...

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...

Chief executives of sovereign wealth funds, including China Investment Corp. and Singapore’s GIC, and leading financial institutions have discus...

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), the Netherlands’ APG and China’s logistics property developer ESR have agreed to s...

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...

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...

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...

Pension schemes and savings funds in South Korea are busy responding to a flood of capital calls simultaneously from foreign investment firms which ar...

A number of South Korean pension funds are looking to hunt for bargains in the battered equity and bond markets, while postponing investment in infras...