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The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), South Korea’s $8 billion savings fund, is studying investing in offshore private debt funds (PDFs) and non...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has signed a final agreement to acquire a 10-story office building in the southern part of Hamburg, Ge...

Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) has decided to commit €50 million ($52.4 million) to a $1.5 billion~$2 billion fund which will take over senior s...

The Blackstone Group L.P. is understood to commit about $200 million to a South Korean fund to finance its 70 billion won ($59 million) acquisition of...

Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU), the largest savings fund in South Korea, sets its eyes on offshore collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), priva...

Two South Korean brokerage companies - KTB Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. – set up a $85 million ...

South Korea’s Hana Asset Management Co. Ltd. will invest $110 million in principal-protected debt issued by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) & Co. on...

The following are key events in relation to Samsung C&T Corporation’s takeover of affiliate Cheil Industries Inc. in 2015, and prosecutors’ invest...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension scheme with $460 billion in assets under management, is engulfed in on...

Korea Post’s savings arm has awarded offshore private debt mandates worth a combined $300 million to Guggenheim Partners, Park Square Capital and Part...

The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) and the National Pension Service (NPS) have bought equity stakes in a fund launched to buy a ...

Mizuho Securities Co. Ltd. and South Korea’s Meritz Securities Co. Ltd. will set up a fund of about $900 million to acquire a 20 aircraft portfolio fr...

A South Korean asset management firm is raising a €100 million ($110 million) fund to invest in the Pan-European Infrastructure Fund (PEIF) II of a De...

South Korea’s Hanwha Life Insurance Co. Ltd. has bought a 4.1% stake in U.S. Lending Club Corp., the world’s largest peer-to-peer (P2P) lender, for ar...

The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) will commit $50 million to a blind-pool fund that Neuberger Berman is in the process of raising, and other So...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has selected Crescent Capital Group, Falcon Private Equity and GoldPoint Partners to invest a total of...

Three private equity firms – LGT Capital Management, Leadenhall Capital Partners and Nephila Capital – have been chosen as the preferred managers of t...

South Korea’s Police Mutual Aid Association (PMAA), a $2 billion savings fund, is interested in sovereign debt of emerging economies, and will put eff...

Korea Post has invested a total of 998.6 billion won ($888 million) in overseas commercial buildings since 2013, the vast majority of which involved e...

South Korea’s Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) will acquire 57 billion won ($51 million) worth of equity stakes in two domestic fund...

Asia-based alternative investment firm Pacific Alliance Group (PAG) is teaming up with a South Korean brokerage company to launch about a 200 billion ...

(Updated to clarify the fund-raising is still underway, based on a comment from a source with knowledge on the matter) KB Asset Management, a unit ...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), South Korea’s sovereign wealth fund, has lodged a lawsuit against Volkswagen on behalf of the South Korean governm...

South Korea’s police savings fund has appointed a former fixed-income head of Samsung Asset Management as its first chief investment officer fro...

A real estate mezzanine fund of Brookfield Asset Management, for which the private investment firm is aiming to raise $2 billion globally, is expected...

Korea Post’s savings arm has been chosen as the preferred buyer of the headquarters building of France’s Natixis in Paris, in a deal worth 230 billion...

The Teachers’ Pension of South Korea will commit $100 million to a North America-focused, blind mezzanine fund to be launched by U.S.-based Crescent C...

Blackstone, the world’s largest real estate investment firm, has attracted 1 trillion won ($900 million) from South Korean institutional investors for...

TPG named Sanghoon Lee, an ex-Morgan Stanley executive and elder son of a former Samsung Electronics vice chairman and CEO, as the head of its South K...

The Carlyle Group has recently embarked on due diligence of South Korea’s Logen Co. Ltd. for a possible acquisition, following another private equity ...