Naver inks $83.8 million investment deal in SM Entertainment to boost streaming platform

Naver, a Korean online platform giant, has invested 100 billion won ($83.8 million) in SM Entertainment's subsidiaries SMEJ Plus and Mystic Story in a...
Naver, a Korean online platform giant, has invested 100 billion won ($83.8 million) in SM Entertainment's subsidiaries SMEJ Plus and Mystic Story in a...
The National Pension Service plans to carry out about a fivefold increase in overseas staffing by 2024 which will help to reduce external management f...
Silence over the tenure of incumbent chief investment officer (CIO) at the National Pension Service is stirring up talk within the global asset manage...
Korea Post’s insurance arm is looking for one or two real estate debt managers to invest $200 million in mezzanine debt, for which it is plannin...
Local institutional investors have injected $500 million (600 billion won) into a special purpose company to invest in diverse funds managed by privat...
Korea’s platform giant Naver is in talks with SM Entertainment, Korea’s largest entertainment company, to acquire shares worth approximate...
South Korean pension schemes and sovereign wealth fund KIC have recently restarted overseas alternative investments that had been suspended due to the...
Paris-based Ardian is looking to increase private equity investments in Asia, setting its sight on technology, media, online service and healthcare se...
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has announced a $400 million joint venture with NongHyup, or the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, to...
South Korea's Tiger Alternative Investors Co. Ltd has raised about $100 million from domestic retirement funds and insurance firms to invest in senior...
The National Pension Fund has significantly increased alternative investments in the first four months to April from a year earlier, which industry so...
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has appointed private equity head James Jongho Kim as alternative investment group head and deputy chief investment...
NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. will invest about 1.6 trillion won ($1.3 billion) in Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s (ADNOC) gas pipeli...
The Carlyle Group has tentatively agreed to buy $200 million worth of bonds exchangeable into shares in KB Financial Group and the US private equity f...
The National Pension Service (NPS) has beefed up investments in private debt and venture capital funds by adding Antares Capital Advisers and Insight ...
The National Pension Service (NPS) reported a negative 6.08% return on investment in the first three months of this year, weighed down by double-digit...
South Korea’s Teachers’ Pension will chase infrastructure facilities and industrial park properties in developed countries for overseas al...
The Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) plans to abandon its principle of hedging currency exposure from investing in overseas alternatives, a...
The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) is shifting away from a defensive stance to put its increased cash to work as the asset price declines...
ST Unitas, known for English test and civil service exam preparation classes in South Korea, will receive around 150 billion won ($123 million) in inv...
The National Pension Service has invested at least one billion dollars in aggregate in a Portuguese toll road operator and a property redevelopment pr...
IMM Investment Corp. has acquired a minority stake in China’s private water supplier for $40 million, in the first investment by a South Korean ...
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), the Netherlands’ APG and China’s logistics property developer ESR have agreed to s...
Sequoia Capital, Hillhouse Capital and DST Global have invested a combined $150 million in South Korea’s online grocery delivery startup Kurly I...
The National Pension Service committed about 1 trillion won ($810 million) to four global hedge fund houses in 2019, in its first investment in single...
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has been excluded from the National Pension Service’s 49-strong group of global real estate ...
The Teachers’ Pension has named former senior education ministry official Myung-hyun Ju as its chief executive officer for a three-year term sta...
A number of South Korean pension funds are looking to hunt for bargains in the battered equity and bond markets, while postponing investment in infras...
Pension funds, insurance companies and asset managers in South Korea have indefinitely halted new investments in North America’s midstream asset...
Anchor Equity Partners has invested 209.8 billion won ($170 million) in South Korea’s content and entertainment company Kakao M Corp., just afte...