Korean startup acceleration

Apollo Global Management has attracted 80 billion won ($72 million) from a couple of South Korean pension funds to refinance part of bank loans it had...

Baring Private Equity Asia has named CVC Capital Partners as the preferred buyer of South Korea’s No.4 parcel delivery company, which the Carlyle Grou...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has decided to withdraw $70 million from a U.S. real estate fund that makes bets on property price ris...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA), a savings fund for South Korean public officials, will select about two management firms to commit $4...

The Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) will commit $50 million to U.S.-based HPS Investment Partners and Crescent Capital Group each for over...

The Carlyle Group has joined forces with a local dairy to bid for the South Korean operations of McDonald’s in a deal reportedly worth 600 billion won...

South Korean institutional investors are gearing up to raise exposure to U.S. bank loans, collateralized loan obligation (CLO) and commercial mortgage...

South Korean insurance firms and other institutions have committed a total of $250 million to a local fund set up to provide senior loans to Newark En...

ING Life Insurance, fisheries cooperatives and a college fund in South Korea will put a total of $80 million into a fund run by USAA Real Estate Compa...

National Pension Service (NPS), Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) and a South Korean insurer are considering putting a combined $370 million into a r...

South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has preliminarily chosen three U.S.-based asset management firms of mezzanine funds in limit...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) of South Korea has decided to commit 60 million Australian dollars to a Macquarie infrastructure fund ...

A former investment strategy head of the National Pension Service (NPS), Yoon-pyo Lee, will move to South Korea’s Truston Asset Management Co. Ltd. ne...

The National Pension Service (NPS) has kicked off its first investment in hedge funds by choosing two fund of funds managers to entrust a total of $1 ...

Baring Private Equity Asia (PEA) has resumed the sale process of South Korea’s No. 4 package delivery company, and authorized two private equity firms...

Sang-Hyun Yoo, the new global alternative division head of the National Pension Service (NPS) and senior managers of other top South Korean instit...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has recently asked the finance ministry to revise part of regulations governing the sovereign wealth fund in order ...

The National Pension Service, the world’s 3rd largest pension scheme, has just finished its “beauty contest” to select general partners to manage dome...

Two South Korean asset management firms will start to raise about 400 billion won ($346 million) in a mezzanine fund from this week to invest in 10 Hu...

A consortium of South Korea-based Glenwood Private Equity and NH PE have sent teaser letters to potential buyers of Tong Yang Magic, in a shift from i...

The planned sale of a South Korean parcel delivery firm by Baring Private Equity Asia to a strategic buyer has fallen through, after the last shortlis...

The Police Mutual Aid Association (PMAA) has become the latest savings fund in South Korea in shaving the interest rate applied to long-term contribut...

South Korean insurance companies have been raising investments in overseas investments by more than 50% since the start of this year and also consider...

South Korean investors, led by the National Pension Service (NPS), have been ramping up overseas investments while trimming domestic portfolios, a mov...

Asset management firm Brookfield has raised a combined $700 million from major South Korean institutional investors, including the Teachers’ Pension, ...

It was February, 2013 when Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer surprised Silicon Valley and business world by forbidding Yahoo staff from working remotely from ho...

“Only free lunch in finance is diversification.”Korean institutional investors, who have seen their assets under management (AUM) snowball...

delaying PE firms' IPOsSimone...

A series of South Korean entertainment companies' public listings will likely create windfalls of up to tens of million dollars for Korean TV stars, i...

 South Korea’s three major shipbuilders have swept global orders for LNG carriers, more profitable than oil tankers and container ships, am...