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

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. has purchased a $77 million mezzanine loan backed by a six-story space in the 101-story, 30 Hudson Yards, the third...

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...

The South Korean government is expected to push ahead with the plan to move Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) and other public agencies to provincial...

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 ...

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

Two real estate investment trusts (REITs) backed by office buildings in Belgium and France are planning to raise a combined $600 million through initi...

A consortium of KKR & Co. and two South Korean companies have closed the acquisition of a Seoul office tower from the National Pension Service (NP...

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...

Brookfield Asset Management Inc. has borrowed an additional 475 billion won ($402 million) on International Finance Center in Seoul (IFC Seoul) in a 2...

Hong Kong-based investment firm PAG has been named a preferred buyer of Grand Hyatt Seoul and its nearby residential land which are valued at abou...

Brookfield Asset Management Inc. is seeking to refinance 1.8 trillion won ($1.5 billion) of debts it borrowed on the International Finance Center in S...

PGIM Inc., the asset management arm of US-based Prudential Financial Inc., is set to pocket about 70 billion won ($60 million) in capital gains from i...

Alpha Investment Partners, part of Singapore-based Keppel Capital, is set to secure over $250 million from selling two Seoul office buildings for arou...

The South Korean unit of Singapore-based asset manager Keppel Capital was picked as the preferred buyer for three Seoul office buildings in a package ...

Paris-based private equity house Ardian has opened a Seoul office as its fourth Asian base, as South Korean institutional investors such as pension fu...

Singapore’s Ascendas Hospitality Trust has acquired a hotel in downtown Seoul for 77.5 billion won ($69 million) from a South Korean real estate fund ...

KB Asset Management Co. Ltd. and other units of South Korea’s top banking group KB Financial Group co-invested 90 million euros ($103 million) in a se...

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 ...

NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. was chosen as the preferred buyer for a landmark Seoul office building, according to the South Korean brokerag...

Singapore-based Alpha Investment Partners is in negotiations with Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. to sell a landmark office building across S...

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) will put a 14-story office building in Seoul up for sale, in a deal expected to fetch between 550 billion and 60...

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. has bought new preferred shares issued by a US real estate investment trust company for $125 million, ahead of the ...

Real Estate Blockchain Expo 2018 (RBE 2018), the world’s first real estate blockchain expo, will be held in Seoul this coming September. The exp...

M&G Real Estate of London-based Prudential Plc. will sign an agreement soon to buy new twin office towers in Seoul for around 1.1 trillion won ($1...

A consortium of KKR & Co. and South Korea’s IGIS Asset Management Co. Ltd. on March 30 was selected as a preferred buyer of twin office towers in ...

Twin office towers under construction in Seoul, worth an estimated 1.1 trillion won ($1 billion), have attracted Blackstone Group, Korea Post and five...

A fund led by a South Korean unit of China’s Anbang Life Insurance Co. Ltd. has bought a prime office building in Seoul for 240 billion won ($22...

Australia’s IFM Investors opened its eighth global office in Seoul on Nov. 30, at a time when key South Korean asset owners stressed the importance of...

Singapore’s Ascendas-Singbridge Group closed the acquisition of a newly-built office building in Seoul for S$124.3 million ($92.3 million) this week, ...