[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...

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...

Korean military fund to pick new CIO from within for first time

South Korea’s Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) will find a successor of the retiring Chief Investment Officer, Sang-ho Lee, inside its organizat...

Hyundai Marine to be anchor investor of Allianz’s new Berlin office tower: report

South Korea’s Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co. Ltd. will commit around 60 billion won and 70 billion won ($50~58 million) to a domestic real es...

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...

Carlyle seeks new strategic partner to bid for McDonald’s Korean unit

The Carlyle Group has been left as the sole bidder for the South Korean operations of McDonald’s, after a local dairy which had teamed up with the U.S...

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...

Competition for NPS investment division’s new hires at its lowest

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has drawn slightly over 200 applicants for about 30 positions opened at its fund management division, hit...

Cerberus’ new Europe property fund may attract over $370 mn from Korean investors

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

Korea Post names new insurance asset head from within; 3rd replacement in 1 year

Korea Post has appointed a long-serving senior government official as the new head of its insurance asset investments who will also take a quasi-chief...

[Editor's Note] Moves: KIC greets new CIO; NPS lets three senior managers go, ahead of office relocation

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), South Korea’s sovereign wealth fund managing $96 billion foreign exchange reserves, has recently named Kang Shin-w...

[Interview] World Bank’s new investment head calls for review of investment period, risk limit

Incoming World Bank’s director of the investment management division, Heung-sik Choo, said that the international financial institution, which man...

KIC names former local asset management head as new CIO

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has named the former head of Hanwha Asset Management as its new chief investment officer to run the sovereign wealt...

[RFP] Korea Post Savings seeks new single offshore hedge fund managers

- Proposed fund size at minimum $300 mln; proposal submissions due by June 7, 2016 - Funds currently in Korea Post Savings’ hedge fund pool not el...

AI and other Internet new techs reach every corner of our lives (edited)

Metaverse, artificial intelligence (AI) and other Internet new technologies are gradually taking root in the daily lives of our citizens. In the cas...

Samsung SDS showcases new supply chain management solution in the US

Samsung SDS introduced a supplier relationship management (SRM) solution at the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium 2024 in Orlando, Florida, the com...

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