Korea public officials' fund sees $200 mn allocation to cat bonds, private debt funds in H2

South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) is most likely to select global asset managers to invest about $200 million on aggregate in ...

Korea public officials’ fund says interested in Australia infrastructure, offshore debt funds

(Corrected: Numbers in the first and third paragraphs were corrected to $500 to $600 million, and $880 million, respectively) The Public Officials ...

AMP Capital’s Australia infrastructure fund tipped to raise $76 mn from Korea

An infrastructure fund managed by Australia-based AMP Capital is expected to attract about 87 billion won ($76 million) from South Korean investors, i...

Korea to ease rules on insurers’ currency hedging of offshore investment

South Korea will loosen regulations in relation to the currency hedging of insurance companies’ cross-border investments, which have been blamed to in...

Korean institutions to invest $600 mn in two US gas power plants

The recently-closed financing for two US natural gas-fired power plants under construction have attracted a group of South Korean institutional invest...

Korea Teachers’ Pension to invest $75 mn in buying Australia’s office building

South Korea’s Teachers’ Pension will acquire an office building in Brisbane, Australia which the Brisbane city government has signed a con...

Korean institutions in scurry for Europe real estate away from US

South Korean institutional investors, one of aggressive cross-border buyers of US and European real estate in recent years, are quickly shifting towar...

Korea Post’s savings arm targets 2-3% medium-risk assets; keen on CMBS, CLO: report

Korea Post’s Savings Bureau has been shifting overseas investment focus into relatively low-risk assets such as fixed-income assets since last year to...

Korea Investment-led firms to buy EU parliament building for $224 mn

A consortium of Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and Hana Asset Management Co. Ltd. are tapping domestic institutional investors to acquire ...

Korea’s JB Asset to buy Comcast’s new office building in Denver for $72 mn

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...

Korea military fund mulls investing in PDF, NPL fund in 2017: report

The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), South Korea’s $8 billion savings fund, is studying investing in offshore private debt funds (PDFs) and non...

Korea public officials’ fund sees 3-4 Europe property buys after $101 mn German deal

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has signed a final agreement to acquire a 10-story office building in the southern part of Hamburg, Ge...

Korea teachers’ fund to invest $52 mn in Europe bank loans-buying fund

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...

Blackstone may inject $200 mn into Korea fund for 6~7 logistics center purchase

The Blackstone Group L.P. is understood to commit about $200 million to a South Korean fund to finance its 70 billion won ($59 million) acquisition of...

Korea teachers’ fund eyes CLOs, PEFs as market volatility seen up in 2017: report

Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU), the largest savings fund in South Korea, sets its eyes on offshore collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), priva...

KTB, Korea Investment launch $85 mn aircraft fund to buy Airbus A330

Two South Korean brokerage companies - KTB Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. – set up a $85 million ...

KKR’s securitized debt attracts $210 mn from Korea’s Lotte, Hana: report

South Korea’s Hana Asset Management Co. Ltd. will invest $110 million in principal-protected debt issued by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) & Co. on...

Chronology: Korea’s sprawling political scandal hits NPS over Samsung units’ merger

The following are key events in relation to Samsung C&T Corporation’s takeover of affiliate Cheil Industries Inc. in 2015, and prosecutors’ invest...

Q&A: NPS embroiled in Korea’s political scandal over Samsung units’ merger

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension scheme with $460 billion in assets under management, is engulfed in on...

Korea Post awards $300 mn mandates to 3 private debt managers

Korea Post’s savings arm has awarded offshore private debt mandates worth a combined $300 million to Guggenheim Partners, Park Square Capital and Part...

GIC, NPS invest $136 mn each in Korea’s retail complex near Seoul

The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) and the National Pension Service (NPS) have bought equity stakes in a fund launched to buy a ...

Mizuho, Korea's Mertiz to launch $900 mn fund to buy 20 aircraft portfolio from GE

Mizuho Securities Co. Ltd. and South Korea’s Meritz Securities Co. Ltd. will set up a fund of about $900 million to acquire a 20 aircraft portfolio fr...

Korean institutions to fund Qantas Airway’s aircraft lease with $20 mn mezzanine loan

A South Korean brokerage firm is raising $20 million in mezzanine debt from two to three domestic institutional investors to finance Australia’s Qanta...

Korea scientists fund to put €25 mn into Europe infrastructure-investing FoF

A South Korean asset management firm is raising a €100 million ($110 million) fund to invest in the Pan-European Infrastructure Fund (PEIF) II of a De...

Korea insurer buys shares in Lending Club, sees P2P loans as new alternative

South Korea’s Hanwha Life Insurance Co. Ltd. has bought a 4.1% stake in U.S. Lending Club Corp., the world’s largest peer-to-peer (P2P) lender, for ar...

Neuberger Berman sees $100 mn fundraising in Korea to buy stakes in US asset firms

The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) will commit $50 million to a blind-pool fund that Neuberger Berman is in the process of raising, and other So...

Three US firms win $120 mn mezzanine fund mandates from Korea fund

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has selected Crescent Capital Group, Falcon Private Equity and GoldPoint Partners to invest a total of...

Korea public officials’ fund picks $40 mn cat bond managers

Three private equity firms – LGT Capital Management, Leadenhall Capital Partners and Nephila Capital – have been chosen as the preferred managers of t...

[Interview] Korea police fund eyes EM debt; keen on networks with foreign funds: CIO

South Korea’s Police Mutual Aid Association (PMAA), a $2 billion savings fund, is interested in sovereign debt of emerging economies, and will put eff...

Korea Post put 1 trillion won into offshore property in past 3 yrs

Korea Post has invested a total of 998.6 billion won ($888 million) in overseas commercial buildings since 2013, the vast majority of which involved e...