[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...

[Survey] Direct lending, mezzanine at top of Korean LPs’ private debt strategies

South Korea’s leading asset owners are planning to expand private debt investment this year in pursuit of medium risks and medium returns, setti...

[ASK 2017 SUMMIT Panel Talks] KIC may pick small hedge fund managers

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is looking at small and medium-sized hedge fund managers to take a bigger chunk of a deal, and the sovereign wealth...

[ASK 2017 SUMMIT Panel Talks] Korean insurers seek co-investment, top-tier GPs

South Korean insurance companies are looking for co-investment in overseas alternatives with general partners, and leaning towards larger GPs in the i...

Korea construction workers’ fund to pick two debt fund managers for $70 mn

(Corrected: The CWMA source on April 13 corrected the timetable of the planned debt manager selection to “soon”, and added that it has already begun t...

KIC picks $400 mn global bond managers among firms with Korean subsidiaries

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has introduced new requirements to foreign bond managers that they have South Korean subsidiaries which will not be...

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...

NPS picks Albourne Partners to review hedge fund risks

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has selected London-based consultancy, Albourne Partners Ltd., as an advisor to undertake operational due...

Korea public officials’ fund picks $40 mn cat bond managers

Three private equity firms – LGT Capital Management, Leadenhall Capital Partners and Nephila Capital – have been chosen as the preferred managers of t...

Korea police fund picks CIO from outside; gives $90 mn mandates to 6 firms

South Korea’s police savings fund has appointed a former fixed-income head of Samsung Asset Management as its first chief investment officer fro...

TPG picks son of ex-Samsung vice chairman to lead Korea investment

TPG named Sanghoon Lee, an ex-Morgan Stanley executive and elder son of a former Samsung Electronics vice chairman and CEO, as the head of its South K...

Korean public officials’ fund picks mezzanine fund firms in closed bids

South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has preliminarily chosen three U.S.-based asset management firms of mezzanine funds in limit...

Korea civil servants’ pension fund picks local firms for global stock, bond mandates

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) has selected Daishin Asset Management and Shinhan BNP Paribas Asset Management as general pa...

ABCP issues backed by Chinese bank deposits seen to top corporate bond sales in Korea

South Korean pension and savings funds are piling into short-term notes backed by time deposits at Chinese banks, lured by higher deposit rates from C...

Top Korean investors to meet UK asset managers in London on July 22

Sang-Hyun Yoo, the new global alternative division head of the National Pension Service (NPS) and senior managers of other top South Korean instit...

NPS’ stock concentration in Samsung, top conglomerates deepens in H1, 2016

The units of the Samsung Group made up a quarter of the National Pension Service’s (NPS) Korean stock holdings in value in the first half of this year...

BlackRock, Grosvenor picked as NPS’ fund of hedge fund managers

The National Pension Service (NPS) finally selected BlackRock Alternative Advisors and Grosvenor Capital Management on July 11 as the general partners...

KIC completes senior officials reshuffle with 2 steering committee member picks

(Updated on July 12, 2016 to clarify a previous business title of Chun-woong Park, a new steering committee member, as the head of the Korean arm of E...

[Editor's Note]Top Korean investors' views on Brexit

The National Pension Service, the world’s 3rd largest pension scheme, has just finished its “beauty contest” to select general partners to manage dome...

Korea PEF picked as preferred buyer of Outback Steakhouse Korea

South Korea’s private equity firm SkyLake Investment, which won an about $220 million mandate from the National Pension Service (NPS) this week, has b...

Blackstone picked as preferred buyer of S.Korea’s $400 mln office building – report

Blackstone has been chosen as the preferred bidder of a prime office building in downtown Seoul, in a deal estimated to fetch 460 billion~480 billion ...

POBA to pick 2 global infrastructure fund firms in June for $85 mln investment – report

South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA), a savings fund for local public officials, plans to select two offshore infrastructure inve...

NPS shortlists fund of hedge fund GPs for $1 bln mandate; to pick final 2 firms in Q3

- BlackRock, Blackstone, Grosvenor & UBS are on the shortlist - Hedge funds with big market share & established systems to be chosen prefer...

KIC aims to pick domestic GPs to manage $2 billion overseas infrastructure fund

- To select 2~3 local asset managers or securities firms as GPs - If fails to bring in local GPs, it will open the door to foreign asset managers ...

K-pop stars earn huge capital gain from stock options

Executives and employees of top K-pop agencies such as SM Entertainment Co. and YG Entertainment Inc. are expected to earn huge capital gains from the...

TEST Robots, AI replace human workers at Kia’s EV6 manufacturing factory

Electric vehiclesHyundaiMotor, Kia, TechKia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, has unveiled the automated manufacturing process at...