Veteran Korean real estate investor sees growth in Seoul office building market

Low foreign ownership, swelling assets at South Korean institutional investors and small office space per worker all point to growth potential for...
Low foreign ownership, swelling assets at South Korean institutional investors and small office space per worker all point to growth potential for...
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 Korea’s Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. has been picked as the preferred buyer of a 12-story office building in Canberra, which is entir...
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...
The National Pension Service (NPS) has announced a plan to give its foreign offices more authority so that they can propose investment ideas directly ...
A real estate fund of South Korea’s Samsung SRA Asset Management Co. Ltd. has secured 100 billion won ($84 million) in capital gains from the sale of ...
South Korea’s Teachers’ Pension will acquire an office building in Brisbane, Australia which the Brisbane city government has signed a con...
Blackstone Group has attracted New York State Teachers’ Retirement System (NYSTRS), US insurer MIRAS and a South Korean government employees’ fund to ...
South Korea’s Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co. Ltd. will commit around 60 billion won and 70 billion won ($50~58 million) to a domestic real es...
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...
South Korea’s Vestas Investment Management Co. Ltd. was selected as a preferred buyer of an office building of L’Oréal near Paris late last month, and...
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) appointed Soo-Cheol Lee, who leads domestic alternative investments, as the new head of the pension fund’...
South Korean insurance firms have invested about 120 billion won ($100 million) in senior loans secured by an office tower in Silicon Valley leased to...
The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), South Korea’s $8 billion savings fund, is studying investing in offshore private debt funds (PDFs) and non...
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 National Pension Service’s (NPS) investment strategy head, Young-Sig Yang, has recently tendered a resignation and was appointed as the private eq...
Two South Korean brokerage companies - KTB Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. – set up a $85 million ...
Two South Korean savings funds are set to invest 100 billion won ($85 million) in junior mezzanine debt secured by a Manhattan office building leased ...
A South Korean handbag maker’s fund management unit has invested $61.5 million in mezzanine debt of a prime office building in Los Angeles, jointly wi...
PGIM Inc. a unit of U.S. Prudential Financial Inc., will acquire an office building in central Seoul for 184 billion won ($157 million) from a South K...
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) and the country's Local Finance Association will invest a total of 153 billion won ($130 million) in U.S. mezzanine...
A small-sized South Korean asset management firm, Hyundai Investments Co. Ltd., has raised a real estate fund to invest 93 billion won ($79 million) i...