alternative assets

The Bank of Korea paid the second-highest amount of tax revenue in the country last year, trailing only Samsung Electronics Co., after the South Kor...

South Korea’s leading credit rating and business valuation services provider, Korea Ratings, has stepped into the online due diligence service...

South Korea's top financial regulator has been taking longer than the usual three months to review applications of offshore funds, dealing a heavy b...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has begun a process to initiate multi-asset investment as part of an effort to create higher retu...

The National Pension Service (NPS) signed new contracts worth around 23 trillion won ($20.1 billion) abroad in alternative investments last year, de...

South Korea’s 36 insurance companies have invested a combined 70 trillion won ($63 billion) in overseas alternative investments as of the end ...

South Korean banks have offered a combined $540 million in syndicated loans to fund overseas alternative investments, in which Korea Investment Corp...

South Korea’s Hana Alternative Assets Management Co. has acquired an office building in Charlotte, North Carolina, for $201 million. Wells Far...

With an aim to bolster its alternative portfolio, the National Pension Service has taken bold new steps over the past few years, including launching...

Canada-based Brookfield was chosen as the best global asset manager for both real estate and infrastructure investments by South Korea’s pension...

South Korea’s Meritz Alternative Investment Management Co. has committed $150 million to a new US multifamily residential fund managed by Fair...

South Korea’s 22 brokerage firms have classified a combined 7.5 trillion won ($6.9 billion), or 15.7%, of their cumulative overseas alternat...

Korea Investment Corporation has appointed new heads of alternative investment strategy and private equity in a senior management reshuffle carried ...

South Korea’s IGIS Asset Management Co. and Hana Financial Investment Co. have jointly acquired three pre-completed logistics centers in the U...

Shinhan Alternative Investment Management Inc. has committed 200 million euros ($245 million) to a multifamily housing fund in Europe managed by Pat...

The National Pension Service has teamed up with the US-based Stockbridge Capital Group to acquire a $2 billion portfolio of logistics facilities in ...

SK Holdings Co., the holding company of South Korean conglomerate SK Group, aims to be at the forefront of the country's hydrogen ecosystem as part ...

Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. will be able to recover a $580 million deposit it paid to Anbang Insurance Group for a $5.8 billion deal to buy 1...

South Korea's biopharmaceutical firm Celltrion Inc. has completed the $278 million acquisition of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd's primary care a...

The National Pension Service has added KKR and Sydney-based Scape Australia Management to its pool of 54 global real estate investment managers in...

SINGAPORE -- Global investors are returning to emerging market debt, including Korean won bonds, as they hunt for higher yields amid stronger local ...

South Korean brokerage firms' alternative investments worth over $50 billion will come under tight control, after reckless investment in overseas real...

South Korea’s platform giant Naver Corp., alongside Mirae Asset Daewoo Co., has been increasing investments into promising startups in Southeast...

South Korea’s Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association is chasing government-sponsored infrastructure and public private partnership (PPP) pr...

Aberdeen Standard Investments is dedicated to helping investors around the world reach their investment goals and broaden their financial horizo...

South Korea’s institutional investors, including pension funds, mutual aid associations and insurers, plan to increase the private debt portion ...

South Korea's insurers along with Shinhan Alternative Investment Management Inc. have committed $130 million in the real estate stabilized credit (RES...

Alternative asset values have risen to burdensome levels due to strong demand, but the Teachers’ Pension in South Korea will continue to increas...

LG Chem Ltd. has developed the world's first 100% biodegradable material that can replace plastic as the company moves to take the lead in the global ...

The Korea Economic Daily (KED) is hosting its global alternative investment conference ASK 2020 in Seoul on Oct. 28 for Korean institutional investo...