global equity

The National Pension Service (NPS) will further increase the proportion of overseas investment with a higher share of global equities, according to it...

Jae-Sang Kim, who had worked with National Pension Service’s (NPS) Chief Investment Officer Myoun-Wook Kang in asset management firms for several ye...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has picked seven global private equity fund houses to invest $300 million in five different strategies...

Korea Post's savings unit announced a plan on May 17 to invest up to $300 million in overseas private debt funds focusing on mezzanine and distresse...

Korea Post’s insurance unit on May 8 posted a request for proposals of multi-strategy funds of hedge funds. It will receive proposals by 5 pm, May 19...

The Military Mutual Aid Association’s (MMAA) former equity head Jae Dong Kim was installed this month as its first chief investment officer chosen fro...

Korea Post’s insurance unit is planning to commit about $100 million each to two multi-strategy global funds of funds (FoFs) employing primary, second...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has introduced new requirements to foreign bond managers that they have South Korean subsidiaries which will not be...

The Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) has awarded overseas private debt fund mandates for opportunistic strategies to Apollo Global Manageme...

ING Life Insurance Korea Ltd. sees core office buildings and infrastructure in the US and Europe remaining as attractive targets even in the periods o...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has decided to select a new global alternative investment head from outside the $480 billion pension fund...

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) has named a former senior investment manager of the National Pension Service (NPS), who had ...

NongHyup Life Insurance Co. Ltd., a unit of South Korea’s agricultural cooperative, will commit an additional 700 billion won ($620 mn) to overseas al...

Two key fund managers of South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) have offered to step down earlier this month, joining in 25 other employees ...

Samsung Asset Management Co. Ltd. will launch a $500 million blind-pool fund investing in infrastructure-backed debt in developed countries, and joint...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) will chase equity stakes in foreign companies running power, harbor and road projects, as it is seeking t...

South Korea’s Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) will acquire 57 billion won ($51 million) worth of equity stakes in two domestic fund...

Keymen of major South Korean institutional investors, including the National Pension Service (NPS), Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) and Korea Post,...

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) has selected Daishin Asset Management and Shinhan BNP Paribas Asset Management as general pa...

A former investment strategy head of the National Pension Service (NPS), Yoon-pyo Lee, will move to South Korea’s Truston Asset Management Co. Ltd. ne...

The Yellow Umbrella Mutual Aid is looking for stock management firms to invest a total of about 100 billion won ($88 million) and pick up to four fund...

The National Pension Service (NPS) appointed its domestic alternative division head, Sang-Hyun Yoo, as the new head of the global alternative division...

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) posted a notification on July 1 to invite bids for a 100 billion won ($87 million) mandate f...

The National Pension Service’s (NPS) investment return dipped to 4.57% in 2015, but its performance outstripped those of other top five pension funds ...

Korea Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU), which manages 22 trillion won (about $18 billion) of assets, is considering an equity investment in holding compa...

South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA), a savings fund for local public officials, plans to select two offshore infrastructure inve...

- Deadline to submit proposal is May 30, 2016; Final selection set for July 1, 2016 Korea Post announced a request for proposal on May 23 for its u...

Korea Post will focus on post-sales management capability of domestic placement agents when it assesses proposals from global general partners (GPs) f...

- GEPS to make 2nd commitment to global secondary PEF since 2014; investment size to triple - To pick 2 GPs by mid-June to commit $50 million, resp...

- Overseas portfolios seen to climb to over 35% by 2021 vs. 24.3% at end-2015 - Domestic portfolios seen to drop to 65% or below vs. 75.7% at end-2...