88% of Korean LPs want speedy capital deployment

Asset managers' track record and risk management are the most important factors for South Korean major limited partners when considering new partnersh...

Stockbridge names former NPS real estate expert as its MD

Stockbridge Capital Group LLC, a US real estate investment firm, announced on Feb. 10 that David Park has joined the firm as a managing director. ...

Korea’s record trade deficit stirs capital outflow fears

South Korea reported the largest trade deficit on surging raw material prices in January, string worries that capital outflows from Asia’s fou...

LG Energy: Will joining indices rescue stock from its plunge?

  LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s No. 2 battery maker, will gain quick entry to two MSCI indices in mid-February as well as join Ko...

Bain Capital seals 3rd beauty M&A deal in S.Korea

Bain Capital on Thursday agreed to buy a majority stake in South Korea's medical aesthetic device manufacturer Classys Inc. for 670 billion won ($56...

Hyundai to offer auto finance in France to boost Europe vehicle sales

Hyundai Capital Services Inc., a financial services subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Group, and CGI Finance, a unit of Societe Generale Group, have launc...

MBK sells 10% stake to Dyal Capital for around $1 bn

North Asia-focused MBK Partners has agreed to sell a roughly 13% stake to Dyal Capital Partners for about $1 billion, according to a Bloomberg repor...

LG Energy sets new IPO record with $9.65 trillion investor demand

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest battery maker, has set a new record for an initial public offering with demand for its sha...

Howard Marks says should stay in the market now

NEW YORK -- US stock markets remain high but their prices seem reasonable at the current level of interest rates near historic lows, said Oaktree Ca...

Coupang's No. 2 shareholder unloads over $1 bn shares

Coupang Inc.'s second-largest shareholder Geenox Capital sold about 1.6 trillion won ($1.4 billion) worth of shares in the South Korean e-commerce p...

Korea’s Ants dump single-day record $2.7 bn shares, turn eyes overseas

South Korea’s retail investors on Tuesday dumped 3.16 trillion won ($2.7 billion) worth of shares on the country’s two main stock market...

E-Mart in exclusive talks to buy US food company

South Korea's largest supermarket chain E-Mart Inc. has spent nearly $4 billion on acquisition deals so far this year, including the $3 billion purc...

Hyundai Investments buys office building in Brussels

South Korean asset manager Hyundai Investments Co., fully owned by Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co., has said it acquired a Brussels-based ...

Will LG Energy’s IPO overcharge?

The world’s second-largest electric-vehicle battery maker, LG Chem-owned LG Energy, is hoping a separate listing will give the ...

KTB Network to list at bottom of price range

KTB Network Co., South Korea's first-generation venture capital firm, priced its public offering price at the bottom of the guidance range as the re...

NPS picks Hillhouse Capital for private equity investment in Q3

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) selected private equity giant Hillhouse Capital Group in the third quarter of this year for its...

US activist fund to face off with IMM PE over Hanssem

Teton Capital Partners, a US-based activist fund, has taken legal action to block IMM Private Equity from exercising its management rights over Hans...

HealthQuest picks Korea’s Lunit for first investment in Asia

HealthQuest Capital, a major US healthcare-focused venture growth fund, made its first investment in Asia along with other venture capitalists by pu...

MBK sells Japan golf club to SoftBank's Fortress for $3.5 bn

MBK Partners has sold Japan's largest golf course operator Accordia Next Golf to SoftBank's Fortress Investment Group for 400 billion yen ($3.5 bill...

Doosan near completing self-rescue plan with E&C sale

South Korea's Doosan Group is near finalizing a deal to sell Doosan Engineering & Construction Co. (Doosan E&C) to a consortium led by Seoul...

NPS selects four Korean VCs to invest 150 bn won

The National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea said on Nov. 9 it has selected the venture capital firms that will entrust the pension fund&rsqu...

[ASK 2021] Blending US Core & Non-Core Investments to Capitalize on the High Conviction Industrial Sector

Blending Core & Non-Core Investments to Capitalize on the High Conviction Industrial Sector What is the current outlook and wh...

AI human developer MINDs Lab aims for November IPO

South Korea’s top artificial intelligence (AI) developer MINDs Lab Inc. is aiming to list on the Kosdaq market within this month. While the ...

Specialty coffee brand Terarosa raises $60 mn from Unison Capital

The operator of Terarosa, known as the Blue Bottle Coffee of South Korea, has received around 70 billion won ($60 million) in funding from Unison Ca...

K-pop stars see huge capital gains from stock options

Executives and employees of top K-pop agencies such as SM Entertainment Co. and YG Entertainment Inc. are expected to earn huge capital gains from...

Are Korean battery materials stocks too expensive?

South Korean battery materials shares have rallied with their market capitalization nearly doubling since early January thanks to strong growth in t...

Korean P2P lending platform 8Percent raises near $40 mn

South Korea-based online peer-to-peer lending platform 8Percent has secured 43.5 billion won ($38.3 million) in an investment round led by the Silic...

Giving away patents not in line with capitalist society

WASHINGTON D.C. -- US-based biotechnology company Moderna Inc. wasn’t a household name until the beginning of last year, when its fate changed...

KIC advised to invest in Europe's residential market

Europe's residential real estate market has stronger growth potential than the US housing facilities, given the growing preference among millennials...

Monroe Capital opens first Asian outpost in Seoul

The US private credit markets-focused Monroe Capital LLC has made its foray into Asia by opening an office in South Korea, where the National Pensio...