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Korea Post’s insurance unit is planning to commit about $100 million each to two multi-strategy global funds of funds (FoFs) employing primary, second...

The Public Officials Benefit Association and the Korea Scientists and Engineers Mutual-aid Association have decided to invest $50 million and $30 mill...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has been recently named as a preferred buyer of an office complex in Brussels, Belgium, in a 130 billi...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) is screening investment proposals from overseas private equity fund managers to entrust a combined $30...

South Korea’s top financial regulator will cut reserve requirements by half for insurance firms’ cross-border infrastructure assets from as early as J...

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...

Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. has raised 141 billion won ($125 million) as planned from a domestic public fund launched to finance its $245 ...

The asset management units of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA), Prudential Financial Inc., and New York Life Insurance...

Aviation finance funds are expected to attract another billions of dollars from South Korean investors this year to a cumulative $3.9 billion, driven ...

CVC Capital Partners is interested in electronic commerce, healthcare and services sectors in South Korea because of their growth potential, and willi...

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

Korea Post’s insurance unit is preparing to pick global fund-of-hedge-fund managers using multi-strategy and will soon determine the amount of investm...

The National Pension Service’s (NPS) rejection last week of 200 billion won ($177 million) investment in ADT Korea, owned by the Carlyle Group, has ca...

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) will select two global private debt fund managers employing opportunistic strategies to inve...

About 300 firms from 20 countries, including the United States and China, will take part in the Cityscape Korea 2017, set for August 17 to 19, 2017 in...

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

South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) is most likely to select global asset managers to invest about $200 million on aggregate in ...

(Corrected: Numbers in the first and third paragraphs were corrected to $500 to $600 million, and $880 million, respectively) The Public Officials ...

An infrastructure fund managed by Australia-based AMP Capital is expected to attract about 87 billion won ($76 million) from South Korean investors, i...

NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and KEB Hana Bank have made $35 million senior loans each to two power generation facilities near Chicago, acc...

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...

South Korea’s Teachers’ Pension will acquire an office building in Brisbane, Australia which the Brisbane city government has signed a con...

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...

A consortium of Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and Hana Asset Management Co. Ltd. are tapping domestic institutional investors to acquire ...

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...

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...