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South Korean shares rallied for a second consecutive session on Wednesday, ending at the highest level in nearly two years, as individual investors sn...

Korea-based IGIS Asset Management has announced plans to drop its renovation project of an 11-story apartment, an unwilling decision triggered by...

South Korea's exports have plunged 16.6% during the second quarter, hitting the lowest record in 56 years since the fourth quarter of 1963 when it fel...

Institutional investors are becoming wary of investing in Korean corporate bonds due to uncertainties caused by the coronavirus. As of July 20, t...

The National Pension Service (NPS) will continue to raise exposure to global equities over the next five years, despite concerns about the impact of t...

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...

The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) has extended its financial division head’s term for another year to focus on the risk management asso...

Pension funds, insurance companies and asset managers in South Korea have indefinitely halted new investments in North America’s midstream asset...

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. has underwritten a luxury hotel development in New York with a $145 million loan, saving the project from bankruptc...

Korea Midland Power Co. Ltd., a unit of South Korea’s utility giant KEPCO, has acquired a wind power project in Sweden in a consortium with a German p...

Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd. and Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. have provided a combined $434 million debt on the construction of Heathrow ...

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. and Lotte Non-life Insurance Co. Ltd. have lent $85 million in a mezzanine loan on Salt Creek Midstream LLC in Texa...

A consortium of private equity firms led by the US-based Advent International Corp. has exited its investment in The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf for a ...

Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. is set to exit from an office building in Frankfurt with handsome gains, just two years after acquiring the 17...

The Korea Scientists and Engineers Mutual-aid Association (SEMA) has appointed Sungmoo Huh, a former alternative investment and strategy head of Seoul...

A joint venture between the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) and the Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has provided a ...

Hana Alternative Asset Management Co. Ltd. has arranged a $50 million loan investment in the largest residential development under construction in Bos...

Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd., the brokerage arm of a leading South Korean asset manager, will underwrite a $300 million debt on a US shale oil pipeline...

Korea Post is planning to select about two energy infrastructure funds within the year as it is seeking to raise exposure to global infrastructure a...

Private equity firm KKR & Co and South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) will make an equity investment of 800 billion won ($704 million) in ...

Ares Management LP has raised a total of $300 million in credit facilities from South Korean institutional investors, including Hana Financial Investm...

Energy projects and debt refinancing and secondary market deals are expected to create new investment opportunities in Europe, said an executive of Au...

The Police Mutual Aid Association (PMAA), a $2 billion retirement fund for South Korea’ polices officers, will ramp up investment in loan funds and in...

Former South Korean lawmaker Sung-joo Kim, named as chief executive and chairman of the National Pension Service (NPS) on Nov. 2, stressed the publi...

Korea Development Bank (KDB), Shinhan Bank and Woori Bank are likely to provide $200 million in syndicated loans for the Hudson Yards project in their...

The asset management units of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA), Prudential Financial Inc., and New York Life Insurance...

Gas-fired power plants in the pipeline in northeast U.S. states are expected to attract South Korean institutional investors in search of 5~6% annual ...

Korea Post’s savings arm has awarded offshore private debt mandates worth a combined $300 million to Guggenheim Partners, Park Square Capital and Part...

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...

South Korea’s two local private equity firms, VIG Partners and SkyLake Investment, received 250 billion won ($216 million) mandates from the National ...