Construction workers’ fund names ex-Hanwha General investment head as CIO

The Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) has appointed Wihwan Lee, a former investment head of Hanwha General Insurance CO. Ltd., as chi...
The Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) has appointed Wihwan Lee, a former investment head of Hanwha General Insurance CO. Ltd., as chi...
Meritz Securities Co. Ltd. has provided 200 million euros ($218 million) in a senior loan to fund KKR & Co.’s $3.4 billion purchase in 2019 ...
KKR & Co. has sold a modern logistics facility it had developed in a South Korean port in a transaction estimated to be worth more than 200 billio...
NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and Shinhan Investment Corp. have underwritten about 250 billion won ($210 million) in equity to fund the 480 ...
South Korea’s $25 million biotechnology-themed fund, launched by Meritz Securities Co. Ltd., has earned triple-digit returns on its 2.7 billion ...
About halfway through their three-year terms, chief executives of National Pension Service (NPS), Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTUC) and Publi...
Shinhan Financial Group will raise $200 million for two KKR funds of funds (FoFs) tailor-made for the South Korean banking group, under a strategic pa...
Shinhan Alternative Investment Management Inc. (SAIM) has raised $330 million for the Carlyle Group’s newly launched revolving loan fund (CREV) ...
The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) will commit around 130 billion won ($111 million) to AXA Investment’s 1.4 billion euro ($1.6 bil...
The National Pension Service (NPS) has launched a 1 trillion won ($860 million) fund with SK Group to invest in Vietnamese companies, through which th...
Yellow Umbrella Mutual Aid Fund, a savings arm for South Korea’s small-sized business owners, has committed $540 million to overseas debt funds ...
MG Korean Federation of Community Credit Cooperatives (KFCC) will allocate a total of 7 trillion won ($6 billion) to alternative investment blind-pool...
SK Group will set up a 1 trillion won ($850 million) fund with China’s private equity firm Hillhouse Capital Group to invest in Chinese start-up...
The Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) plans to commit $25 million to a global infrastructure blind-pool fund investing in senior or m...
Twenty-four South Korean institutional investors, including the National Pension Service, the Korean Teachers’ Credit Union and the Public Offic...
Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. will provide $425 million in equity and debt financing for the acquisition of a desalination plant in San Dieg...
South Korean institutional investors, including the National Pension Service, have put on hold new alternative investments in Japan due to soured rela...
Three South Korean brokerage firms, including Samsung Securities Co. Ltd., underwrote around 250 billion won ($208 million) of a subordinated debt on ...
The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) will launch a joint fund worth about 900 billion won ($753 million) with a Danish pension fund to inve...
The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) will set up a $1 billion joint fund with South Korea’s SK Holdings Co. Ltd. to make cross-border investme...
The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) plans to commit $250 million to five private debt funds focusing on mid-cap companies in North America...
IGIS Asset Management Co. Ltd. has collected C$560 million ($423 million) from South Korean financial institutions to lend for The One building, a mix...
Samsung Securities Co. Ltd. has signed a preliminary agreement with Canadian pension scheme La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) to cooper...
Korea Midland Power Co. Ltd., a unit of South Korea’s utility giant KEPCO, has acquired a wind power project in Sweden in a consortium with a German p...
Kiwoom Asset Management Co. Ltd. plans to raise 50.7 million euros ($56.2 million) from individual investors in South Korea in August to buy an of...
A number of wealthy South Koreans have committed 5.5 million euros ($6.1 million) to Germany’s Earlybird Venture Capital, in the first direct investme...
Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. and Lotte Non-life Insurance Co. Ltd. have lent $85 million in a mezzanine loan on Salt Creek Midstream LLC in Texa...
KB Investment Co. Ltd., the venture capital arm of KB Financial Group, has invested $10 million in a Swiss biotech start-up firm which recently raised...
Ten South Korean institutional investors have committed about $200 million to the Carlyle Group’s first credit opportunities fund which recently raise...
Hana Financial Group will set up a joint fund with China Investment Corp. (CIC) to invest in companies seeking to penetrate each other’s markets, with...