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Central bank
Record-high Q2 Korean household debt heats up property, stock markets
South Korea’s household debt surged to the highest level in its history in the second quarter of the year, led by soaring mortgage loans and sec...
Aug 21, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio
Celltrion to co-develop pill-type autoimmune disease drug with UK startup
Biosimilar maker Celltrion Inc. has agreed to develop a tablet-type treatment for autoimmune diseases jointly with the UK biotech startup Intract Phar...
Aug 20, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Patrizia
Europe’s residential property market to fare better than fixed income: Patrizia
Europe’s residential property market will likely continue to fare better than fixed-income assets on the prospect of interest rates remaining lo...
Aug 19, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPO of Korea’s first overseas property-backed REIT receives tepid response
The initial public offering of JR Global REIT, set to be South Korea’s first listed REIT backed by overseas property, was undersubscribed 0.23 t...
Jul 26, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Carlyle names co-CEO Kew Lee as sole CEO
Kewsong Lee, co-chief executive officer of the Carlyle Group, has been appointed as the US private equity group’s chief executive officer after ...
Jul 22, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Korea’s Aussie property fund seller seeks damages for reimbursement
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 ...
Jul 21, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
KIC forms $400 mn joint venture with NongHyup for private equity co-investment
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has announced a $400 million joint venture with NongHyup, or the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, to...
Jul 13, 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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Startup
Mirae Asset co-leads $100 mn financing for China’s biotech startup
Mirae Asset Financial Group has invested $28 million in Shanghai-based biotechnology startup JW Therapeutics, about a quarter of $100 million financin...
Jun 12, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
BlackRock dropped from NPS’ property investment manager pool
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has been excluded from the National Pension Service’s 49-strong group of global real estate ...
Apr 02, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension fund
Korea’s Europe property investment hits record; France takes one-third
South Korean institutions, including pension funds and insurance companies, poured a record 12.5 billion euros ($14 billion) into Europe’s real ...
Jan 14, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investment
IMM Investment buys stake in Texas Express Pipeline in $1 bn co-investment
South Korea’s IMM Investment Corp. has agreed to buy a 35% stake in Texas Express Pipeline, a joint venture for natural gas liquids transportati...
Dec 23, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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Infrastructure
Macquarie seeks co-investors for over $2 bn Korean gas firm purchase
Macquarie’s investment unit may attract Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC and other limited partners of its Asia infrastructure fund a...
Dec 17, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
POBA, PFA, Patrizia co-invest in Europe’s $1.3 bn logistics portfolio
The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA), Danish pension fund PFA and real estate investment firm Patrizia AG have co-invested 800 billion won ...
Dec 12, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investment
Hana Fin-led JV buys 4 US student housing properties for $325 mn
Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. and Chicago-based Scion Group have acquired a portfolio of four newly-developed student housing facilities for $325...
Nov 19, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carlyle Group
Japan, Australia may generate attractive property deals: Carlyle
Financial restructuring by Japanese companies and rising population density in Australia look set to create attractive investment opportunities for co...
Oct 31, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investments
[ASK 2019 SUMMIT Panel Talks] Korean LPs lukewarm on sell-down properties
Major South Korean institutional investors have cooled their interest in overseas real estate assets sourced by domestic brokerage firms because of he...
Oct 25, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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POBA to form $750 mn joint property fund with Danish pension fund
The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) will launch a joint fund worth about 900 billion won ($753 million) with a Danish pension fund to inve...
Sep 19, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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KTCU, SK Holdings to launch $1 bn fund for global co-investment
The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) will set up a $1 billion joint fund with South Korea’s SK Holdings Co. Ltd. to make cross-border investme...
Sep 19, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mirae Asset to earn over 25% IRR from German property investment
Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. has agreed to sell an office building in Frankfurt for 400 million euro ($448 million) which will translate in...
Jun 19, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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[ASK 2019 SUMMIT] KIC to boost alternatives with co-ops' assets
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) will raise the proportion of alternative investments with further diversified portfolios, while seeking to manage p...
May 17, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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POBA to up co-investment with CalSTRS, Texas pension fund
The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) will double co-investment with the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) to 880 billi...
Apr 29, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hanwha, Hana extend mezzanine loans on US properties
Hanwha Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. has provided a 140 billion won ($123 million) mezzanine loan on an office complex in Silicon Valley leased...
Apr 06, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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[Interview] POBA to increase US property loan investment via JVs
The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) will continue to step up investment in US real estate loans through joint ventures (JVs) with global p...
Mar 05, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hyundai Asset seeks retail funding for $76 mn Scotland property deal
Hyundai Asset Management Co. Ltd. has rolled out its first public real estate fund to close the 58.2-million-pound ($76 million) acquisition of a Scot...
Feb 20, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean REIT nets $31 mn from Tokyo property stake sale
JR AMC Co. Ltd., a real estate investment trust manager in South Korea, has recently disposed of its stake in a luxury office building in central Toky...
Jan 11, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mirae Asset, SK Sec buy German property in share deal
Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd. and SK Securities Co. Ltd. have recently closed a purchase of an office building leased to a department of the German fede...
Oct 11, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
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NPS co-invests in Morgan Stanley fund’s US energy firm purchase
The National Pension Service (NPS) has poured around $100 million into a co-investment led by a Morgan Stanley fund to acquire units of a US shale gas...
Sep 22, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
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[Interview] Carlyle sees huge potential in private credit: Co-CEO
The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s biggest private equity firms, puts the expansion of credit business as a top priority as the private debt market...
Sep 07, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
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POBA to re-up for Europe property SMA with $224 mn: report
The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) will commit an additional 250 billion won ($224 million) for core-plus and value-add property investme...
Aug 01, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)