GEPS growth funds

The sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) will make co-investments worth up to 1 trillion won ($900 million) alongside the Hyunda...

South Korean tech giant Kakao’s unlisted subsidiaries have posted record-high growth figures for the previous financial year. According to Kak...

The Korea Venture Investment Corp. (KVIC), which manages funds of venture capital funding vehicles, will pick offshore VC funds to commit around 75 ...

South Korea’s SK Holdings Co. and China’s leading carmaker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. have launched a $300 million joint fund...

South Korea's Police Mutual Aid Association (PMAA) has been looking for a new chief investment officer for a half year, while the sovereign wealth f...

The National Pension Service has committed $500 million to Blackstone's new life science real estate fund that is expected to raise over $12 billion...

South Korea's e-commerce giant Coupang Corp. had a successful trading debut in New York on Thursday as its shares soared by 41% in their first sessi...

South Korean platform giant Naver Corp. is seeking growth opportunities abroad to avoid regulatory constraints that hinder its operations at home. T...

LG Electronics Inc. is aggressively expanding its automobile components business in the North American market – a move that is expected to hel...

South Korea's top financial regulator has been taking longer than the usual three months to review applications of offshore funds, dealing a heavy b...

South Korea’s Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) is looking for the successor of its financial division chief Kim Jae-dong, whose extended...

MBK Partners and two leading South Korean conglomerates – SK and CJ groups – have chalked up hefty returns from investments in Chinese l...

The National Pension Service boosted investments in private equity deals involving high-growth internet and software companies last year, while dive...

US-based hedge fund Whitebox Advisors LLC plans to vote against the proposed spin-off of South Korea’s LG Corp. at the upcoming general meetin...

South Korea's Yellow Umbrella Mutual Aid Fund will commit about 120 billion to 150 billion won ($108 million-$135 million) to blind pool funds of ve...

South Korea's Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) is planning to commit a combined 150 billion won ($135 million) to three global infrastr...

The National Pension Service has committed $150 million to London-based Stafford Capital Partners in its first investment in timberland, land availa...

Mirroring the other fast-growing economies in Southeast Asia, Vietnam is rapidly transitioning into a cashless society, with financial transactions ...

Optrontec Inc., a small South Korean manufacturer and provider of optical filters, lenses and three-dimensional sensing technology, has been ramping...

South Korean banks have offered a combined $540 million in syndicated loans to fund overseas alternative investments, in which Korea Investment Corp...

The National Pension Service and other South Korean pension funds have offloaded a net 9.9 trillion won ($8.9 billion) worth of shares on the countr...

The ruling Democratic Party’s push to hand out "a substantial amount" of new relief money has rattled the South Korean debt market, sending lo...

Hyundai Motor Group and Korea Development Bank have decided to create a 74.5 billion won ($67 million) fund to invest in startups that offer future ...

Danggeun Market Inc., South Korea’s largest online flea market operator, is poised to raise up to 200 billion won ($180 million) in fresh fund...

With an aim to bolster its alternative portfolio, the National Pension Service has taken bold new steps over the past few years, including launching...

South Korea’s SK Holdings Co. and China’s Geely Auto Group are looking to set up a joint fund designed to invest in hydrogen and other e...

The National Pension Service has decided to invest in a $20 billion technology fund that Silicon Valley-based Silver Lake Partners recently closed, ...

South Korea’s Meritz Alternative Investment Management Co. has committed $150 million to a new US multifamily residential fund managed by Fair...

South Korea-based Kumho Petrochemical Co. stunned the market last year with a positive earnings surprise in the third quarter of 2020. The company...

South Korean institutional investors, including the National Pension Service, have committed around $400 million to KKR’s Asia real estate f...