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South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) will make its first investment in a blind-pool aircraft fund by committing $100 million to a $1 billion f...

Heungkuk Asset Management Co. Ltd. , a unit of South Korea’s textile, financial services and media group, closed a 130 billion won ($114 million) fund...

The brokerage arm of South Korea’s national agricultural cooperative has decided to acquire a 23-story skyscraper in Tokyo, for about 350 billion won ...

Hyundai Investments Co. Ltd., wholly owned by Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co. Ltd., is seeking to raise between €100 million ($107 million) an...

The investment firm of South Korea’s Hana Financial Group has raised €44.2 million ($47 million) mostly from domestic life insurers through a private ...

NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. has pulled out of negotiations to buy an office building under construction in a suburb of Paris after a due d...

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 ...

The life insurance arm of South Korea’s Shinhan Financial Group will allocate more than 90% of its assets under management to loans and bonds to...

HI Investment & Securities Co. Ltd., an affiliate of South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., has established an offshore aircr...

ING Life Insurance Korea Ltd. sees core office buildings and infrastructure in the US and Europe remaining as attractive targets even in the periods o...

Hanwha Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. has decided to commit 60 billion won ($54 million) to a South Korean consortium which was named as a prefe...

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...

NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd., a brokerage arm of South Korea’s agricultural cooperative, is in the early stages of negotiations with th...

A $270 million real estate fund of Samsung SRA Asset Management Co. Ltd. has invested $100 million in mezzanine debts backed by a prime office build...

Korea Post’s savings unit has decided to commit about 100 billion won ($87 mn) to investment firms managing or marketing offshore insurance-linked sec...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has decided to select a new global alternative investment head from outside the $480 billion pension fund...

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) has named a former senior investment manager of the National Pension Service (NPS), who had ...

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...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) will almost double the basic salary of its investment division heads by stages to 324 million won ($286,7...

Overseas alternative investments remained the best-performing segment for South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) for the third consecutive year ...

NongHyup Life Insurance Co. Ltd., a unit of South Korea’s agricultural cooperative, will commit an additional 700 billion won ($620 mn) to overseas al...

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 &...

Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co. Ltd., South Korea’s second-largest non-life insurer by assets, is considering investing in one or two addition...

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

(This is the first in a series of interviews with CIOs of South Korea’s leading insurance companies in 2017.) Mirae Asset Life Insurance Co. Ltd., ...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has agreed to buy a 10% stake in TeamHealth Holdings Inc. for about $300 million, in a joint investment i...

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

South Korea will loosen regulations in relation to the currency hedging of insurance companies’ cross-border investments, which have been blamed to in...

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