equity allocation

The National Pension Service is planning to build an investment portfolio with a longer-term perspective for a period of at least 10 years, shifting...

South Korean companies have posted their best-ever quarterly sales and operating profits, emerging from a year-long slump caused by the global COVID...

Kakao Corp.’s Japanese unit is set to secure 600 billion won ($530 million) from South Korea-based private equity firm Anchor Equity Partners....

CVC Capital Partners has appointed Chris Rhee, a former partner of Affinity Equity Partners, as its Seoul office head and global partner, according ...

A Twosome Place is poised to be South Korea's first listed coffee chain as its owner Anchor Equity Partners has kicked off the process of its initia...

Seoul-based IMM Private Equity will acquire a 40% stake in South Korea’s SK Lubricants Co., wholly owned by SK Innovation Co., for about one t...

The National Pension Service has bowed to pressure from retail investors to raise the upper limit for domestic stock purchases, after it was blamed ...

Kakao Corp.’s Japanese unit, which operates Japan’s largest webtoon platform Piccoma, is in talks to attract as much as 500 billion won ...

Affinity Equity Partners, a global private equity firm, is set to acquire the entire stake of South Korea’s top recruitment portal JobKorea &n...

The Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has named new heads of its private equity and absolute return groups this week, following the replacement of ...

Local and foreign private equity firms are among the final bidders for the entire stake of South Korea’s top recruitment portal JobKorea &ndas...

The National Pension Service has divided up its global public market division into Global Equity and Global Fixed Income divisions as part of a plan...

CVC Capital Partners, TPG Capital and Affinity Equity Partners are among 10 preliminary bidders for the entire stake of South Korea’s largest ...

This is the first in our bi-weekly Deal briefs series, covering the latest M&A deals and key events in South Korea’s capital markets. We w...

Hong Kong-based Anchor Equity Partners has agreed to invest 250 billion won ($226 million) to buy new shares in South Korea’s KakaoBank, shortly...

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

Tikehau Capital is an asset management and investment group with €25.7 billion of assets under management and shareholder equity of €2...

The following is the full transcript of The Korea Economic Daily's interview with Korean Teachers’ Credit Union’s (KTCU) Chief Investment ...

The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU), a $29 billion savings fund, will increase its exposure to equities markets and M&A financing deals...

South Korea’s pension funds including the National Pension Service sold off a net 3.12 trillion won ($2.6 billion) worth of domestic equities fr...

Affinity Equity Partners and Baring Private Equity Asia will likely invest a combined 1.2 trillion won ($1 billion) in new shares of Shinhan Financial...

Korean Air Lines Co. Ltd. signed a definitive agreement on August 25 to sell its in-flight duty-free and meal service business to South Korea’s ...

Paris-based Ardian is looking to increase private equity investments in Asia, setting its sight on technology, media, online service and healthcare se...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has announced a $400 million joint venture with NongHyup, or the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, to...

One Equity Partners (OEP), a New York based private equity firm, unloaded its remaining shares in Celltrion Healthcare valued at approximately 31...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has appointed private equity head James Jongho Kim as alternative investment group head and deputy chief investment...

New York-based Select Equity Group joined the roster of the National Pension Service’s (NPS) global alternative investment companies as a single...

The National Pension Service (NPS) will continue to raise exposure to global equities over the next five years, despite concerns about the impact of t...

A number of South Korean pension funds are looking to hunt for bargains in the battered equity and bond markets, while postponing investment in infras...

About 48 trillion won ($39 billion) of outstanding equity-linked securities (ELS) issued by South Korean brokerage companies has put their sector lead...