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Affinity Equity, Baring PEA tipped to invest $1 bn in Shinhan Financial

Affinity Equity, Baring PEA tipped to invest $1 bn in Shinhan Financial

Affinity Equity Partners and Baring Private Equity Asia will likely invest a combined 1.2 trillion won ($1 billion) in new shares of Shinhan Financial...

NPS adds six global alternative investment managers in Q2

NPS adds six global alternative investment managers in Q2

The National Pension Service has added three real estate investment firms, two infrastructure managers and one private equity and debt investment hous...

Online portal Naver steps up Europe startup investment against US, China

Online portal Naver steps up Europe startup investment against US, China

South Korea’s largest internet portal Naver Corp. has committed 110.4 billion won ($93 million) to two Europe-focused startup funds since late l...

Global alternatives boost KTCU’s H1 investment returns

Global alternatives boost KTCU’s H1 investment returns

Alternative investments became the best-performing asset class for the Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) in the first half of this year, retu...

KKR to expand Korea waste management portfolio to sewage treatment

KKR to expand Korea waste management portfolio to sewage treatment

KKR & Co. is set to acquire a non-controlling stake in a South Korean sewage management company in a deal worth up to 200 billion won ($170 millio...

Korea's largest tiremaker mired in family feud over management control

Korea's largest tiremaker mired in family feud over management control

South Korea’s largest tire manufacturer Hankook Tire & Technology Co. is in the crosshairs as the family feud over management control o...

KKR wraps up $739 mn purchase of Korean waste management firms

KKR wraps up $739 mn purchase of Korean waste management firms

KKR & Co. of the US has finalized the 875 billion won ($739 million) purchase of two South Korean waste treatment companies after completing its f...

[RFP] POBA seeks two global fixed-income managers for $350 mn mandate

[RFP] POBA seeks two global fixed-income managers for $350 mn mandate

South Korea's Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) plans to allocate a combined $350 million to two global fixed-income investment companies, i...

FKI calls for further easing of new CVC rules to spur investment

FKI calls for further easing of new CVC rules to spur investment

The South Korean government, which recently decided to allow holding companies of conglomerates to run corporate venture capital (CVC) units, needs to...

Hanon Systems eyes top spot in world’s car thermal management system market

Hanon Systems eyes top spot in world’s car thermal management system market

Hanon Systems Corp., a South Korean auto parts maker, said on Wednesday it aims to become the world’s top supplier of automotive thermal and ene...

India’s Mahindra willing to give up management rights in Ssangyong Motor

India’s Mahindra willing to give up management rights in Ssangyong Motor

India’s Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd., with a 75% stake in South Korea’s Ssangyong Motor Co. Ltd., has expressed its intention to give up man...

SK to invest $300 million in ChinData Group by joining in pre-IPO share sale

SK to invest $300 million in ChinData Group by joining in pre-IPO share sale

SK Corp. is investing $300 million (360 billion won) in Chinese data center operator ChinData Group as the South Korean company seeks to benefit from ...

NH Investment beats Korean rival in a bold bet on $400 mn Aussie-NZ infra portfolio

NH Investment beats Korean rival in a bold bet on $400 mn Aussie-NZ infra portfolio

A consortium led by NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. has been named as a preferred buyer for infrastructure assets worth $400 million in Austra...

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

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...

NPS creates active management team for overseas traditional assets

NPS creates active management team for overseas traditional assets

The National Pension Service will set up teams in its overseas offices to directly handle active investments in traditional assets such as equiti...

NPS to add 200 global investment staff to cut fees, emulating CPPIB

NPS to add 200 global investment staff to cut fees, emulating CPPIB

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 NPS chief investment officer's tenure raises eyebrows within the financial community

Silence over NPS chief investment officer's tenure raises eyebrows within the financial community

Silence over the tenure of incumbent chief investment officer (CIO) at the National Pension Service is stirring up talk within the global asset manage...

[RFP] Korea Post plans to invest $200 mn in real estate mezzanine debt

[RFP] Korea Post plans to invest $200 mn in real estate mezzanine debt

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...

Korean investors jointly set up a $770 million SPC to invest in KKR funds

Local institutional investors have injected $500 million (600 billion won) into a special purpose company to invest in diverse funds managed by privat...

Naver likely to invest near $83.5 million into SM Entertainment to secure K-pop content

Naver likely to invest near $83.5 million into SM Entertainment to secure K-pop content

Korea’s platform giant Naver is in talks with SM Entertainment, Korea’s largest entertainment company, to acquire shares worth approximate...

Shinhan Financial in search to acquire traditional asset manager

Shinhan Financial in search to acquire traditional asset manager

Shinhan Financial Group, one of Korea's largest financial holding firms, has reached out to asset management companies that are well-versed ...

Korean pension funds relax due diligence to restart alternative investment

Korean pension funds relax due diligence to restart alternative investment

South Korean pension schemes and sovereign wealth fund KIC have recently restarted overseas alternative investments that had been suspended due to the...

Ardian looking to expand Asia private equity investment

Ardian looking to expand Asia private equity investment

Paris-based Ardian is looking to increase private equity investments in Asia, setting its sight on technology, media, online service and healthcare se...

KIC forms $400 mn joint venture with NongHyup for private equity co-investment

KIC forms $400 mn joint venture with NongHyup for private equity co-investment

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has announced a $400 million joint venture with NongHyup, or the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, to...

Tiger Alternative raises $100 million to invest in US structured fund

Tiger Alternative raises $100 million to invest in US structured fund

South Korea's Tiger Alternative Investors Co. Ltd has raised about $100 million from domestic retirement funds and insurance firms to invest in senior...

NPS ramps up alternative investment in Jan-April despite Covid-19

The National Pension Fund has significantly increased alternative investments in the first four months to April from a year earlier, which industry so...

KIC promotes private equity head to lead alternative investment

KIC promotes private equity head to lead alternative investment

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has appointed private equity head James Jongho Kim as alternative investment group head and deputy chief investment...

NH Investment joins in $10.1 bn Abu Dhabi deal for $1.3 bn stake

NH Investment joins in $10.1 bn Abu Dhabi deal for $1.3 bn stake

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...

Carlyle to invest $415 mn in KB Financial, betting on share rebound

Carlyle to invest $415 mn in KB Financial, betting on share rebound

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...

NPS boosts private debt and venture capital investment in Q1

NPS boosts private debt and venture capital investment in Q1

The National Pension Service (NPS) has beefed up investments in private debt and venture capital funds by adding Antares Capital Advisers and Insight ...

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