Blackstone, Korea Post among bidders for $1 bn new office tower in Seoul

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

CVC-Brookfield-GIC consortium sole bidder for Korea’s ADT Caps

A consortium of CVC Capital Partners, Brookfield Asset Management and Singapore’s GIC was the sole bidder for South Korea’s No.2 security services fir...

Antares Capital raising $200 mn from Korea for private debt fund

Antares Capital LP, a leading US middle-market lender, is raising $200 million from South Korean institutional investors for a private debt fund to wh...

Brookfield, GIC join CVC-led group in final bidding for Korea’s ADT Caps

CVC Capital Partners has formed a consortium with Brookfield Asset Management and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC to make a final bid for South ...

[RFP] Korea construction workers’ fund seeks $40 mn US PDF manager

The Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) plans to allocate about $40 million to a US blind-pool fund house of direct lending and senior-...

Aberdeen Standard wins $120 mn SMA mandate of Korea scientists fund

Korea Scientists and Engineers Mutual-aid Association (SEMA) has selected Aberdeen Standard Investments to manage its first separately managed account...

Korea scientists fund to commit $34 mn to BlueBay Asset’s Europe debt fund

Korea Scientists and Engineers Mutual-aid Association (SEMA) has committed €28 million ($34 million) to a European mid-market private debt fund of Blu...

Dalmore Capital to raise $200 mn from Korea for infrastructure fund

Dalmore Capital Limited, a UK-focused infrastructure investment firm, is set to raise £150 million ($203 million) from four to five South Korean insti...

Korea Post invests $60 mn in senior debt on US gas power plants: report

Korea Post has invested $60 million in a seven-year private debt fund to provide a senior loan secured on four US gas-fired power plants, but the inve...

Korea Investment buys China Airlines-leased aircraft for $165 mn

Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. has acquired a Boeing aircraft leased by Taiwan-based China Airlines for around 180 billion won ($165 milli...

LaSalle develops its first logistics facility in Korea; sees more land purchases

LaSalle Investment Management has built a four-story logistics warehouse near Seoul, its first development of a storage facility in South Korea, and...

Korea Investment to buy US government-leased building for $185 mn

Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. will acquire a mid-sized office building in Washington D.C. for around 200 billion won ($185 million) next ...

KKR, POBA plan to sell commercial buildings in Korea for $1 bn

Private equity firm KKR & Co. and the Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) have put two commercial buildings in South Korea up for sale sep...

Carlyle offers $1.7 bn pre-arranged financing to sell ADT Korea

The Carlyle Group has offered 1.9 trillion won ($1.7 billion) in pre-arranged debt financing to potential bidders of its wholly-owned ADT Korea, in a ...

Gaw Capital raising half of $360 mn US value-add fund from Korea

Hong Kong-based real estate investment firm Gaw Capital Partners is on track to raising 200 billion won ($180 million) for its 400 billion won ($360 m...

[ASK 2017 SUMMIT Panel Talks] KIC, Korea Post see no target return cuts

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) and Korea Post are not considering lowering targeted returns of their global real estate and infrastructure portfol...

[RFP] Korea scientists fund to pick $120 mn multi-asset SMA manager

Korea Scientists and Engineers Mutual-aid Association (SEMA) is planning to allocate around $120 million to a separately managed account (SMA) of mult...

Korea Post buys $600 mn US building jointly with California pension fund

Korea Post has signed a 680 billion won ($602 million) agreement to buy a Silicon Valley office campus used by a leading cybersecurity company in join...

Golub and Ares win $60 mn private debt mandates from Korea scientists fund

Korea Scientists and Engineers Mutual-aid Association (SEMA) has decided to make its first allocation to global private debt funds by committing $...

Mirova infrastructure fund may raise $266 mn from Korea: report

Mirova, part of France’s Natixis Asset Management, is likely to collect 200 billion won to 300 billion won ($177 million to $266 million) from South K...

Goldman and KKR mezzanine funds seen to raise up to $1.14 bn from Korea

Goldman Sachs’s new mezzanine fund, which aims to raise $10 billion, is expected to gather an aggregate $800 million to $1 billion from South Korean i...

KIC head to move to Korea Export-Import Bank as CEO

Sung-soo Eun, the chief executive of Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), was nominated as head of the Export-Import Bank of Korea, about one and a...

US Golub Capital’s $2 bn debt fund may raise over $40 mn from Korea

South Korean brokerage firm Shinhan Investment Corp. and a retirement savings fund have decided to commit $20 million each to a $2 billion private deb...

Goldman taps retirement funds to resell $178 mn loan to Korea e-commerce firm

Goldman Sachs’ Special Situations Group (SSG), which invests in and lends to distressed companies, is in talks with South Korean retirement savings fu...

Korea Post names ex-regulatory official as insurance unit head

Korea Post has appointed a former regulator of the Financial Services Commission (FSC) to lead its insurance bureau which manages $44 billion in asset...

South Korea seen to spend $1.4 tn on infrastructure by 2040: report

South Korea is expected to largely meet its infrastructure investment needs by 2040, spending $1.4 trillion on infrastructure by the year, according t...

[RFP] Korea Post seeks six global equity fund houses

Korea Post’s savings unit plans to select two global stock managers for exchange-traded fund (ETF) investment around the end of September, and four ot...

Korea police fund allocates $60 mn to AMP's infrastructure, LGT's ILS funds

The Police Mutual Aid Association (PMAA) has decided to commit $30 million each to an Australian infrastructure fund of AMP Capital and an insurance-l...

Carlyle to consolidate Seoul office, putting ADT Korea back up for sale

The Carlyle Group will consolidate its South Korean operations divided into buyout and growth capital units by combining them, after the three-men gro...

UBS, Mesirow, AXA on Korea Post’s hedge fund manager shortlist

UBS, Mesirow Financial and AXA are on the shortlist for Korea Post’s global hedge fund investment mandates for which the state agency is to allocate a...