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Chief executives of sovereign wealth funds, including China Investment Corp. and Singapore’s GIC, and leading financial institutions have discus...

Hanjin Group, parent of Korean Air Lines Co. Ltd., is considering selling three core businesses of the carrier -- in-flight meal service, mileage prog...

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), the Netherlands’ APG and China’s logistics property developer ESR have agreed to s...

Prudential Financial Inc. has decided to sell its South Korean insurance arm to KB Financial Group for about 2.3 trillion won ($1.9 billion) and will ...

Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd. has led a $23 million investment in Indian food delivery platform Swiggy by South Korean companies in their first investme...

South Korea’s real estate funds for outbound investment saw their first net capital outflows in four and a half years in March, hit by delays in...

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...

Pension schemes and savings funds in South Korea are busy responding to a flood of capital calls simultaneously from foreign investment firms which ar...

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...

About 48 trillion won ($39 billion) of outstanding equity-linked securities (ELS) issued by South Korean brokerage companies has put their sector lead...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) will commit $120 million to a US single-family housing development fund worth about 750 billion won ($...

The National Pension Service (NPS) takes the current financial market volatility caused by the COVID-19 outbreak as a grave threat and is operating it...

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...

eBay Inc. has decided to sell 100% of its South Korean operations which it valued at about 5 trillion won ($4 billion), the latest in a series of reor...

The Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) has appointed Wihwan Lee, a former investment head of Hanwha General Insurance CO. Ltd., as chi...

Biotech startup Bionetix easily surpassed what's known as the "10 billion won hurdle" by raising an additional 10 billion won in funding on Dec. 23. I...

Meritz Securities Co. Ltd. has provided 200 million euros ($218 million) in a senior loan to fund KKR & Co.’s $3.4 billion purchase in 2019 ...

KKR & Co. has sold a modern logistics facility it had developed in a South Korean port in a transaction estimated to be worth more than 200 billio...

NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and Shinhan Investment Corp. have underwritten about 250 billion won ($210 million) in equity to fund the 480 ...

South Korea’s $25 million biotechnology-themed fund, launched by Meritz Securities Co. Ltd., has earned triple-digit returns on its 2.7 billion ...

Taiwan’s Fubon Financial Holdings, KB Financial Group and three Seoul-based private equity firms have submitted letters of intent to acquire 100...

About halfway through their three-year terms, chief executives of National Pension Service (NPS), Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTUC) and Publi...

Shinhan Financial Group will raise $200 million for two KKR funds of funds (FoFs) tailor-made for the South Korean banking group, under a strategic pa...

Shinhan Alternative Investment Management Inc. (SAIM) has raised $330 million for the Carlyle Group’s newly launched revolving loan fund (CREV) ...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) will commit around 130 billion won ($111 million) to AXA Investment’s 1.4 billion euro ($1.6 bil...

Private equity firm TPG has acquired a small-sized South Korean dietary supplement manufacturer for around $250 million, in its first Korean buyout de...

The National Pension Service (NPS) has launched a 1 trillion won ($860 million) fund with SK Group to invest in Vietnamese companies, through which th...

Macquarie’s investment unit may attract Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC and other limited partners of its Asia infrastructure fund a...