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[Exclusive]NPS invests $300 mn in TeamHealth as co-investor with Blackstone
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has agreed to buy a 10% stake in TeamHealth Holdings Inc. for about $300 million, in a joint investment i...
Feb 06, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean investors mull investing in Ares Management’s $2.5 bn US private debt fund
South Korean institutional investors, including the Korean Scientists and Engineers Mutual-aid Association, Nonghyup Life Insurance Co. Ltd. and Lotte...
Jan 30, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea to ease rules on insurers’ currency hedging of offshore investment
South Korea will loosen regulations in relation to the currency hedging of insurance companies’ cross-border investments, which have been blamed to in...
Jan 25, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hana becomes first Korean debt arranger for US power plant
Hana Financial Investment’s participation in the recent $1 billion debt financing for a US gas-fired power facility as a lead arranger has made it...
Jan 24, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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TIAA-CREF, Korean teachers’ savings fund to form $1 bn US real estate debt JV
The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) will set up a $1 billion joint venture with the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America - Colle...
Jan 24, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean institutions to invest $600 mn in two US gas power plants
The recently-closed financing for two US natural gas-fired power plants under construction have attracted a group of South Korean institutional invest...
Jan 23, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea Teachers’ Pension to invest $75 mn in buying Australia’s office building
South Korea’s Teachers’ Pension will acquire an office building in Brisbane, Australia which the Brisbane city government has signed a con...
Jan 19, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blackstone in $1 bn mezzanine debt fundraising; Korean govt officials’ fund to invest $50 mn
Blackstone Group has attracted New York State Teachers’ Retirement System (NYSTRS), US insurer MIRAS and a South Korean government employees’ fund to ...
Jan 16, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean institutions in scurry for Europe real estate away from US
South Korean institutional investors, one of aggressive cross-border buyers of US and European real estate in recent years, are quickly shifting towar...
Jan 16, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean brokerages to unveil public funds for US, Europe property deals
South Korean brokerage firms, on the buying spree of US and European real estate, will roll out public real estate funds in the coming months to sell ...
Jan 13, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea Investment-led firms to buy EU parliament building for $224 mn
A consortium of Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and Hana Asset Management Co. Ltd. are tapping domestic institutional investors to acquire ...
Jan 10, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Meritz Securities drops $500 mn Walmart store acquisition plan after US rate hike
South Korea’s Meritz Securities Co. Ltd. has abandoned plans to acquire about 40 stores of Walmart Stores Inc. in southern states of the U.S. for $500...
Jan 04, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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NPS promotes domestic alternative head to lead investment strategy
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) appointed Soo-Cheol Lee, who leads domestic alternative investments, as the new head of the pension fund’...
Jan 02, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean insurers invest $100 mn in Google-leased Silicon Valley building
South Korean insurance firms have invested about 120 billion won ($100 million) in senior loans secured by an office tower in Silicon Valley leased to...
Dec 26, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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US gas power projects lure Korean private loan investors: report
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 ...
Dec 23, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea military fund mulls investing in PDF, NPL fund in 2017: report
The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), South Korea’s $8 billion savings fund, is studying investing in offshore private debt funds (PDFs) and non...
Dec 20, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mirae Asset in bidding for $300 mn Charles Schwab’s US building: report
Mirae Asset Financial Group has recently submitted a letter of intent to buy a prime office building worth $300 million in San Francisco which financi...
Dec 16, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea teachers’ fund to invest $52 mn in Europe bank loans-buying fund
Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) has decided to commit €50 million ($52.4 million) to a $1.5 billion~$2 billion fund which will take over senior s...
Dec 16, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blackstone may inject $200 mn into Korea fund for 6~7 logistics center purchase
The Blackstone Group L.P. is understood to commit about $200 million to a South Korean fund to finance its 70 billion won ($59 million) acquisition of...
Dec 15, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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NPS fund division's 2nd in command offers to quit; tapped as NH Investment’s PE head
The National Pension Service’s (NPS) investment strategy head, Young-Sig Yang, has recently tendered a resignation and was appointed as the private eq...
Dec 14, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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KTB, Korea Investment launch $85 mn aircraft fund to buy Airbus A330
Two South Korean brokerage companies - KTB Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. – set up a $85 million ...
Dec 14, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean funds, NH insurers to invest $215 mn in mezzanine debt of Google NY building
Two South Korean savings funds are set to invest 100 billion won ($85 million) in junior mezzanine debt secured by a Manhattan office building leased ...
Dec 13, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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US Prudential unit to buy Seoul office building for $157 mn amid vacancy concerns
PGIM Inc. a unit of U.S. Prudential Financial Inc., will acquire an office building in central Seoul for 184 billion won ($157 million) from a South K...
Dec 02, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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KIC, Korean fund to invest $130 mn in US hotels-backed mezzanine debt: report
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) and the country's Local Finance Association will invest a total of 153 billion won ($130 million) in U.S. mezzanine...
Nov 29, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean asset firm raises $79 mn to invest in Blackstone-owned Las Vegas hotel
A small-sized South Korean asset management firm, Hyundai Investments Co. Ltd., has raised a real estate fund to invest 93 billion won ($79 million) i...
Nov 25, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean funds to invest $295 mn in Asian warehouse developer e-Shang: report
South Korean institutional investors will buy about 350 billion won ($295 million) worth of senior loans secured by distribution centers of Warburg Pi...
Nov 21, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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GIC, NPS invest $136 mn each in Korea’s retail complex near Seoul
The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) and the National Pension Service (NPS) have bought equity stakes in a fund launched to buy a ...
Nov 17, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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KIC, Teachers’ Pension to invest in US warehouse fund, first since joint work agreement
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) and the Teachers’ Pension will invest in a U.S. warehouse portfolio fund for an undisclosed sum, in their first joi...
Nov 09, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean insurers to invest $240 mn in senior loans for US FBI building
South Korean life and non-life insurance firms will provide about $240 million worth of senior financing for a historic 10-story office building in Wa...
Nov 03, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea scientists fund to put €25 mn into Europe infrastructure-investing FoF
A South Korean asset management firm is raising a €100 million ($110 million) fund to invest in the Pan-European Infrastructure Fund (PEIF) II of a De...
Oct 21, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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