S&P upgrades SK Innovation credit rating to BBB-

Global credit rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) announced on Friday that it upgraded SK Innovation Co.'s long-term credit rating from a ...

KB Asset Management to list Balhae Infrastructure Fund

South Korea's KB Asset Management Co. said on Friday it plans to list its KB Balhae Infrastructure Fund. Launched in 2006, KBIF focuses on so...

NPS commits $436 mn to Koramco, Hana Alternative for real estate lending

The National Pension Service (NPS), South Korea’s largest institutional investor, has selected Koramco Asset Management Co. and Hana Alternati...

Mastern Investment reshuffles organizations

Mastern Investment Management Co., South Korea's real estate investment firm, said an organizational restructuring on Friday.The firm streamlined it...

Korea’s POSCO, India’s JSW team up to build steel plant in Odisha

South Korea’s POSCO Group joined hands with India’s JSW Group to set up an integrated steel plant in the South Asian country with an est...

Korean LPs tighten due diligence on general partners

In the wake of COVID-19, South Korean pension funds and insurance companies have placed a greater focus on asset managers' capabilities for post-inv...

LG Energy Q3 profit more than doubles on higher sales; shares jump

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s third-largest battery maker, said its quarterly operating profit more than doubled from the previous thre...

Samsung Asset releases KODEX India ETF Investment Guide

South Korea's Samsung Asset Management said on Monday it released its KODEX India ETF Investment Pocket Guide.The guide provides information on the ...

Naver D2SF accelerates investments in Silicon Valley startups

South Korea's online giant Naver Corp.'s startup nurturing organization D2SF (D2 Startup Factory) said on Friday it started to discover and invest i...

South Korean VCs in search of better returns abroad

South Korean venture capitalists’ appetite for foreign entrepreneurs shows no sign of waning as they continue to look for better returns overs...

Korea Investment Management to list Global AI-based ASIC ETF

Korea Investment Management Co. said on Monday it will list the ACE Global AI ASIC exchange-traded fund (ETF) on October 22. The ETF will focus on ...

Koramco to open office next to NPS for property investment partnership

Koramco Asset Management Co. will open a liaison office next to South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) to bolster cooperation with the w...

LG Uplus to support AI startup creation

South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. said on Wednesday that it launched the startup support program Shift, which aims to discover and nurture startups, incl...

Hyundai Mobis to invest $257 mn in EV parts plants in Slovakia

Hyundai Mobis Co., the world’s fifth-largest auto parts maker, agreed to invest some 350 billion won ($256.9 million) in building electric veh...

KIC bets on AI-driven value creation: CEO

Sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) will aggressively explore early investment opportunities in sectors undergoing AI-driven in...

NPS bullish on real estate in low interest era: chairman

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) will raise exposure to residential housing and data centers to take advantage of lower interest r...

K Bank aims to turn into AI-based investment platform: CEO

K Bank, the digital banking unit of South Korean telecom giant KT Corp., aims to turn into an AI-based investment platform after going public later ...

Korea Investment lists structured warrants in Indonesia

Korea Investment & Securities Co. has become the first South Korean securities firm to list derivative warrants in Indonesia after issuing 11 st...

Microsoft, KT to invest $1.8 bn in Korea’s AI, infrastructure

Microsoft Corp. and KT Corp. plan to invest 2.4 trillion won ($1.8 billion) in South Korea’s artificial intelligence, cloud and infrastructure...

Alternative investment experts to gather Oct. 16-17 at ASK 2024

South Korea’s major institutional investors and global asset managers will gather at the ASK 2024 global alternative investment conference on ...

KIS hosts 2024 Stifel Research Forum in Seoul

Korea Investment & Securities announced on Tuesday that it hosted analysts from Stifel Financial Corp. at its headquarters in Yeouido, Seoul, fo...

Hanwha Securities buys 5.4% stake in Edinburgh Airport

Hanwha Investment & Securities said on Monday that it acquired a stake in Edinburgh Airport in Scotland.Edinburgh Airport is jointly owned by Gl...

AI startup MarqVision raises $16.5 mn to close Series A round

MarqVision Inc., a startup developing an artificial intelligence-powered intellectual property (IP) protection platform, raised 22 billion won ($16....

Korea’s KCC Glass to invest $525 mn more in Indonesian plant

KCC Glass Corp., a major South Korean construction materials manufacturer, is set to invest an additional 700 billion won ($524.8 million) in its In...

SK Pharmteco to invest $260 mn in new peptide factory in S. Korea

SK Pharmteco, the contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) of South Korea's SK Inc., said on Tuesday that it plans to invest $260 ...

S.Korea’s NPS investment arm suffers from chronic understaffing

South Korea’s largest institutional investor, the National Pension Service (NPS), managing 1,150 trillion won ($870.6 billion) in assets, stru...

Wealthy Koreans look to Indian equities as 'next China' investment

First, it was the US that attracted many South Korean investors looking for higher returns.And then came China, which ensnared Korean retail investo...

Korea Investment lowers price target for Samsung Electro-Mechanics

Korea Investment & Securities lowered the target price of Samsung Electro-Mechanics by 14.3% on Sunday, citing weaker-than-expected third-q...

LG to invest $762 mn in webOS to transform into platform-based tech giant

LG Electronics Inc., the leading global home appliance maker, plans to invest more than 1 trillion won ($762 million) in its multitasking operating ...

S.Korea to offer incentives to attract foreign scientists

South Korea will offer incentives including a 50% income tax cut to attract foreign scientists to develop new growth drivers such as artificial inte...