NPS’ per employee AUM rises to $2.1 bn in 2016: report
Apr 21, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Each investment management staff at South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) oversaw 2.4 trillion won ($2.1 billion) in assets in 2016 on average, about the size of the country’s police savings fund’s total assets, as the pension scheme grappled with a flurry of senior manager departures amid soaring asset growth.
NPS’ total assets under management increased 9% to 558 trillion won at end-2016 from a year earlier. But the number of its internal fund management staff declined to 230, after about 30 employees left the NPS’ Investment Management department last year, Yonhap Infomax reported on April 20.
The pension fund’s AUM per employee is bigger than 1.5 trillion won at Korea Post where 70 in-house management employees oversaw 110 trillion won on aggregate, according to calculations by the news agency.
“Because the (NPS) Investment Management’s office is in Jeonju, it seems that many applicants want to have a brief stint there, like going to army, to boost their career,” Yonhap Infomax quoted an asset management industry source as saying. “It needs to work on helping employees at the Investment Management office work longer on a stable basis.”
For most of other major pension and retirement funds in South Korea, AUM per employee was between 100 billion won and 300 billion won.
Below are AUM details of major South Korean pension and savings funds at end-2016:
Pension/savings fund | AUM per employee (in Korean won) | AUM (in Korean won) | Asset management staff |
National Pension Service | 2.4 trillion | 558 trillion | 230 |
Korea Post | 1.5 trillion | 110 trillion | 70 |
Korean Teachers’ Credit Union | 300 billion | 22.4 trillion | 73 |
Teachers’ Pension | 300 billion | 14 trillion | 46 |
Government Employees Pension Service | 230 billion | 6.5 trillion | 28 |
Yellow Umbrella Mutual Aid | 300 billion | 5.3 trillion | 17 |
Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association | 320 billion | 3.2 trillion | 10 |
Public Officials Benefit Association | 200 billion | 9.4 trillion | 45 |
Korea Scientists & Engineers Mutual-aid Association | 180 billion | 4.2 trillion | 23 |
Military Mutual Aid Association | 90 billion | 9.8 trillion | N/A |
Police Mutual Aid Association | 60 billion | 2.3 trillion | 30~40 |
Source: Yonhap Infomax
Note: Per-employee AUM figures were rounded off.
Yeonhee Kim edited this article
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