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Korea Teachers’ Pension to invest $75 mn in buying Australia’s office building
South Korea’s Teachers’ Pension will acquire an office building in Brisbane, Australia which the Brisbane city government has signed a con...
Jan 19, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea Post’s savings arm targets 2-3% medium-risk assets; keen on CMBS, CLO: report
Korea Post’s Savings Bureau has been shifting overseas investment focus into relatively low-risk assets such as fixed-income assets since last year to...
Jan 12, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea Investment-led firms to buy EU parliament building for $224 mn
A consortium of Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and Hana Asset Management Co. Ltd. are tapping domestic institutional investors to acquire ...
Jan 10, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea’s JB Asset to buy Comcast’s new office building in Denver for $72 mn
JB Asset Management Co. Ltd., a unit of a South Korean provincial bank, has been named as a preferred buyer of a new office building in Denver which C...
Jan 09, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Meritz Securities drops $500 mn Walmart store acquisition plan after US rate hike
South Korea’s Meritz Securities Co. Ltd. has abandoned plans to acquire about 40 stores of Walmart Stores Inc. in southern states of the U.S. for $500...
Jan 04, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea military fund mulls investing in PDF, NPL fund in 2017: report
The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), South Korea’s $8 billion savings fund, is studying investing in offshore private debt funds (PDFs) and non...
Dec 20, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea public officials’ fund sees 3-4 Europe property buys after $101 mn German deal
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...
Dec 20, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea teachers’ fund to invest $52 mn in Europe bank loans-buying fund
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...
Dec 16, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blackstone may inject $200 mn into Korea fund for 6~7 logistics center purchase
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...
Dec 15, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea teachers’ fund eyes CLOs, PEFs as market volatility seen up in 2017: report
Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU), the largest savings fund in South Korea, sets its eyes on offshore collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), priva...
Dec 15, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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KTB, Korea Investment launch $85 mn aircraft fund to buy Airbus A330
Two South Korean brokerage companies - KTB Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. – set up a $85 million ...
Dec 14, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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KKR’s securitized debt attracts $210 mn from Korea’s Lotte, Hana: report
South Korea’s Hana Asset Management Co. Ltd. will invest $110 million in principal-protected debt issued by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) & Co. on...
Nov 30, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chronology: Korea’s sprawling political scandal hits NPS over Samsung units’ merger
The following are key events in relation to Samsung C&T Corporation’s takeover of affiliate Cheil Industries Inc. in 2015, and prosecutors’ invest...
Nov 29, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Q&A: NPS embroiled in Korea’s political scandal over Samsung units’ merger
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...
Nov 29, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea Post awards $300 mn mandates to 3 private debt managers
Korea Post’s savings arm has awarded offshore private debt mandates worth a combined $300 million to Guggenheim Partners, Park Square Capital and Part...
Nov 18, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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GIC, NPS invest $136 mn each in Korea’s retail complex near Seoul
The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) and the National Pension Service (NPS) have bought equity stakes in a fund launched to buy a ...
Nov 17, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mizuho, Korea's Mertiz to launch $900 mn fund to buy 20 aircraft portfolio from GE
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...
Nov 07, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea scientists fund to put €25 mn into Europe infrastructure-investing FoF
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...
Oct 21, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea insurer buys shares in Lending Club, sees P2P loans as new alternative
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...
Oct 19, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Neuberger Berman sees $100 mn fundraising in Korea to buy stakes in US asset firms
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...
Oct 18, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Three US firms win $120 mn mezzanine fund mandates from Korea fund
The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has selected Crescent Capital Group, Falcon Private Equity and GoldPoint Partners to invest a total of...
Oct 17, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea public officials’ fund picks $40 mn cat bond managers
Three private equity firms – LGT Capital Management, Leadenhall Capital Partners and Nephila Capital – have been chosen as the preferred managers of t...
Oct 17, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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[Interview] Korea police fund eyes EM debt; keen on networks with foreign funds: CIO
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...
Oct 17, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea Post put 1 trillion won into offshore property in past 3 yrs
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...
Oct 14, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea savings fund to buy $51 mn equity in property funds: report
South Korea’s Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) will acquire 57 billion won ($51 million) worth of equity stakes in two domestic fund...
Oct 12, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea public officials’ fund to be anchor LP of PAG-led property debt 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 ...
Oct 10, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Starwood Energy to raise $200 mn from Korea to fund $760 mn US deal: report
(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 ...
Oct 07, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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KIC sues Volkswagen over emission scandal on behalf of S.Korea govt
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), South Korea’s sovereign wealth fund, has lodged a lawsuit against Volkswagen on behalf of the South Korean governm...
Oct 04, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Apollo secures $72 mn from Korean funds for German property refinancing
Apollo Global Management has attracted 80 billion won ($72 million) from a couple of South Korean pension funds to refinance part of bank loans it had...
Sep 27, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea police fund picks CIO from outside; gives $90 mn mandates to 6 firms
South Korea’s police savings fund has appointed a former fixed-income head of Samsung Asset Management as its first chief investment officer fro...
Sep 20, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)