institutional investors survey
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Korean stock market
Investors eye Goldilocks stock market in 2021; Biden, pandemic negatives
South Korea’s stock markets are expected to continue their uptrend into next year, fueled by aggressive foreign buying on the back of strong cor...
Nov 17, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Samsung shares hit historic high as foreign investors scoop up net $2.3 bn
Samsung Electronics Co. shares have soared to a historic high, driven by foreign investors scooping up a total net 2.6 trillion won ($2.3 billion) wor...
Nov 13, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Foreign investors shift from growth stocks to net buy $3.5 bn in cyclicals
South Korea's stock market is seeing a shift in buying trends from foreign investors who are increasingly beefing up investments in cyclical stocks wh...
Nov 13, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
South Korean investors ramp up US stock purchases
South Korean investors ramped up overseas stock purchases amid looming uncertainty surrounding the US Presidential Election during the first week of N...
Nov 09, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Korean fried chicken brand draws over 1,000 investors in bookbuilding
Kyochon F&B, South Korea’s No. 1 fried chicken franchise operator, wrapped up a successful bookbuilding for institutional investors with bid...
Nov 02, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Ares Management
[ASK2020] Trends in Renewable Energy and Implications for Investors
Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES) is a leading global alternative investment manager operating integrated businesses across Credit, Privat...
Oct 30, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hamilton Lane
[ASK2020] Why is co-investment an attractive tool for investors?
Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE) is a leading alternative investment management firm providing innovative private markets solutions to sophisticated...
Oct 28, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean investors' survey
Korean investors pick private debt as preferred asset class
South Korea’s institutional investors, including pension funds, mutual aid associations and insurers, plan to increase the private debt portion ...
Oct 27, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bond issues
Kakao's exchangeable bond issue lures global investors
South Korea’s mobile platform giant Kakao Corp. is raising the price of shares to be converted from its exchangeable bond issue in Singapore on ...
Oct 22, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Proxy adviser
Glass Lewis recommends LG Chem investors approve battery spin-off
Leading proxy adviser Glass Lewis has recommended that LG Chem Ltd. investors vote to approve the company’s plan to split off its battery busine...
Oct 15, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPO
BTS label Big Hit’s caginess upsets investors ahead of IPO bookbuilding
Big Hit Entertainment Co., home to the seven-member boy band BTS, is set to hold its first official IPO-related conference for South Korean institutio...
Sep 21, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
S. Korea’s big companies rattled by retail investors’ growing influence
South Korea’s big companies such as Samsung, LG and Hyundai often make shareholder-friendly moves to accommodate institutional investors, who fl...
Sep 18, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech
Korea’s big data companies eye IPOs as investors flush with cash
Tech investors are set to be deluged with initial public offerings as South Korea’s big data companies are pushing to list their shares amid a d...
Sep 15, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Doosan Group
Doosan Heavy shares rally as investors look beyond financial woes
Shares of Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co. Ltd., a South Korean power plant builder, jumped to their highest level in more than two year...
Sep 01, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Longer-dated govt bond yields creep up as investors foresee more treasury sales
South Korea’s government bond yields are heading north despite the gloomy business outlook as institutional investors expect more government-iss...
Sep 01, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Korean retail investors attracted to US growth stocks, now 10th Tesla owners
South Korean retail investors, who turn their eyes overseas for higher returns, are heavily buying into US growth stocks amid growing fears of tech st...
Aug 31, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Short selling ban
Korean govt extends ban on short selling to appease retail investors
The South Korean government has decided to extend the ban on short selling for another six months -- from September 16 to March 15, 2021 -- promp...
Aug 27, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Korean retail investors' offshore stock purchases hit record high in July
South Korean individuals purchased a record amount of shares in overseas markets last month as they looked beyond the local bourse for bigger returns....
Aug 20, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Korean investors jointly set up a $770 million SPC to invest in KKR funds
Local institutional investors have injected $500 million (600 billion won) into a special purpose company to invest in diverse funds managed by privat...
Jul 28, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Investors
[Survey] Korean investors upbeat on infrastructure, aircraft leasing in 2017
Major South Korean pension funds and insurers are planning to expand offshore infrastructure portfolios next year, and zooming in on aircraft finance ...
Jul 22, 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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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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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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Debt
Foreign investors’ holding of South Korean bonds at record high of $115 bn
Foreign investors continued to buy South Korean bonds such as treasuries and monetary stabilization bonds for a fourth consecutive month in April, wit...
May 12, 2020 (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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Korean investors
[Survey] Transport remains top pick for Korean LPs’ 2020 infra investment
South Korean institutional investors will continue to increase their allocations to overseas infrastructure next year, and transport facilities such a...
Oct 28, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean investors on track to pour nearly $1 bn into US, UK airports in 2019
South Korean institutional investors are on track to pour nearly $1 billion into US and UK airports in 2019, including the planned $51 million co-inve...
Sep 22, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean investors
[Survey] Korean LPs tilt to infrastructure on dull 2019 economic outlook
A majority of leading South Korean institutional investors are planning to boost overseas infrastructure investment next year with focus on developed ...
Oct 30, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
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Microsoft UK’s head office sold to Korean investors for $130 mn
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...
Oct 05, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
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[Interview] IFM Investors upbeat on renewables; wary of power generators
Renewable energy sectors in North America, western Europe and Australia will continue to create attractive investment opportunities, whereas regulator...
Oct 05, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
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