KIC’s 2016 investment return swings to positive

Korea Investment Corporation’s (KIC) investment return swung to a positive 4.35% in 2016, helped by solid returns from stock and bond portfolios. In ...

Korea scientists’ fund in push for co-investments in overseas assets: report

Korea Scientists and Engineers Mutual-aid Association (SEMA) will commit about 20 billion won ($18 million) to a fund of Morgan Stanley Energy Partner...

Teachers’ Pension announces new overseas alternative investment head

The Korea Teachers’ Pension on April 24 named its domestic alternative investment head Young-sin Jeong as new head of overseas alternative investments...

NPS to invest $100 mn in BBAM’s blind-pool aircraft fund

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) will make its first investment in a blind-pool aircraft fund by committing $100 million to a $1 billion f...

Heungkuk Asset raises $114 mn to invest in senior debt of Emirates Airline’s aircraft

Heungkuk Asset Management Co. Ltd. , a unit of South Korea’s textile, financial services and media group, closed a 130 billion won ($114 million) fund...

NH Investment set to buy Tokyo office building for $308 mn

The brokerage arm of South Korea’s national agricultural cooperative has decided to acquire a 23-story skyscraper in Tokyo, for about 350 billion won ...

Hyundai Investments seeks to raise up to €200 million for BC Partners’ buyout fund

Hyundai Investments Co. Ltd., wholly owned by Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co. Ltd., is seeking to raise between €100 million ($107 million) an...

Mirae Asset poised to buy German building for €300 mn: report

Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. was recently named as a preferred buyer of an office tower in Frankfurt’s banking district, Taunusanlage 8 (T8...

Hana Asset raises €44.2 million in FoF to invest in CVC private debt fund

The investment firm of South Korea’s Hana Financial Group has raised €44.2 million ($47 million) mostly from domestic life insurers through a private ...

NH Investment drops talks to buy L’Oréal building near Paris

NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. has pulled out of negotiations to buy an office building under construction in a suburb of Paris after a due d...

Korean insurers invest $102 mn in senior debts of Manhattan building

Three South Korean insurance firms have invested 115 billion won ($102 million) in senior secured debts of a building in Manhattan, New York which is ...

[Interview] Shinhan Life eyes low-volatility investments ahead of new accounting rule

The life insurance arm of South Korea’s Shinhan Financial Group will allocate more than 90% of its assets under management to loans and bonds to...

HI Investment sets up leasing firm to buy Boeing aircraft jointly for $209 mn

HI Investment & Securities Co. Ltd., an affiliate of South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., has established an offshore aircr...

[Interview] ING Life Korea seeks equity investments in US, Europe core real estate

ING Life Insurance Korea Ltd. sees core office buildings and infrastructure in the US and Europe remaining as attractive targets even in the periods o...

Hanwha Investment steps in with $54 mn to keep Europe building deal afloat

Hanwha Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. has decided to commit 60 billion won ($54 million) to a South Korean consortium which was named as a prefe...

Korean firms invest $87 mn in mezzanine debt for Amazon office building in Seattle

Kyobo Life Insurance Co. Ltd. and other South Korean institutions have invested 100 billion won ($87 million) in mezzanine debts backed by an Amazon-o...

Korean institutions to invest $83 mn in mezzanine debt for Apple’s office campus

Four South Korean institutional investors, including KDB Life Insurance Co. Ltd. and Allianz Life Insurance Co. Ltd., will invest $83 million in m...

NH Investment seeks to buy L’Oreal’s Paris office building from ADIA

NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd., a brokerage arm of South Korea’s agricultural cooperative, is in the early stages of negotiations with th...

Samsung property fund invests $100 mn in mezzanine debt of US building

A $270 million real estate fund of Samsung SRA Asset Management Co. Ltd. has invested $100 million in mezzanine debts backed by a prime office build...

[RFP] Korea Post seeks to invest about $90 mn in offshore insurance-linked securities

Korea Post’s savings unit has decided to commit about 100 billion won ($87 mn) to investment firms managing or marketing offshore insurance-linked sec...

NPS in hunt for new global alternative investment head from outside

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has decided to select a new global alternative investment head from outside the $480 billion pension fund...

Mirae Asset Daewoo likely to buy Vodafone Campus in Germany for $303 mn

South Korea’s brokerage firm Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd. was selected as a preferred buyer of the office tower of Vodafone Group in Dusseldorf, German...

Korea’s GEPS hires ex-NPS’ NY office head to lead global investment division

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) has named a former senior investment manager of the National Pension Service (NPS), who had ...

Korean institutions to invest in Partners Group’s infra fund; POBA commits €40 mn

Partners Group, a Switzerland-based investment firm, is looking to raise a further €655 million ($689 million) in March for the final close of it...

NPS to bump up senior investment staff's pay, create deputy CIO posts

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) will almost double the basic salary of its investment division heads by stages to 324 million won ($286,7...

NPS’ 2016 overseas alternative investment return drops to 12.34%

Overseas alternative investments remained the best-performing segment for South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) for the third consecutive year ...

[Interview] NongHyup Life eyes hedge fund, private equity secondary investments

NongHyup Life Insurance Co. Ltd., a unit of South Korea’s agricultural cooperative, will commit an additional 700 billion won ($620 mn) to overseas al...

Korean banks flex muscles for alternative assets; Kookmin, Shinhan may invest in KKR’s fund

South Korea’s Kookmin Bank and Shinhan Bank are consdering investing 30 billion won ($26 million) each to a private equity buyout fund which KKR &...

[Interview] Hyundai Marine sees one or two more buyout fund investments in 2017

Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co. Ltd., South Korea’s second-largest non-life insurer by assets, is considering investing in one or two addition...

Korean firms to buy stake in UK gas business for $356 mn in secondary investment

Hanwha Life Insurance Co Ltd., Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co. Ltd. and other South Korean institutional investors will jointly acquire a 4.7%...