KKR’s securitized debt attracts $210 mn from Korea’s Lotte, Hana: report

South Korea’s Hana Asset Management Co. Ltd. will invest $110 million in principal-protected debt issued by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) & Co. on...

Chronology: Korea’s sprawling political scandal hits NPS over Samsung units’ merger

The following are key events in relation to Samsung C&T Corporation’s takeover of affiliate Cheil Industries Inc. in 2015, and prosecutors’ invest...

Q&A: NPS embroiled in Korea’s political scandal over Samsung units’ merger

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension scheme with $460 billion in assets under management, is engulfed in on...

Korea Post awards $300 mn mandates to 3 private debt managers

Korea Post’s savings arm has awarded offshore private debt mandates worth a combined $300 million to Guggenheim Partners, Park Square Capital and Part...

GIC, NPS invest $136 mn each in Korea’s retail complex near Seoul

The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) and the National Pension Service (NPS) have bought equity stakes in a fund launched to buy a ...

Mizuho, Korea's Mertiz to launch $900 mn fund to buy 20 aircraft portfolio from GE

Mizuho Securities Co. Ltd. and South Korea’s Meritz Securities Co. Ltd. will set up a fund of about $900 million to acquire a 20 aircraft portfolio fr...

Korea scientists fund to put €25 mn into Europe infrastructure-investing FoF

A South Korean asset management firm is raising a €100 million ($110 million) fund to invest in the Pan-European Infrastructure Fund (PEIF) II of a De...

Korea insurer buys shares in Lending Club, sees P2P loans as new alternative

South Korea’s Hanwha Life Insurance Co. Ltd. has bought a 4.1% stake in U.S. Lending Club Corp., the world’s largest peer-to-peer (P2P) lender, for ar...

Neuberger Berman sees $100 mn fundraising in Korea to buy stakes in US asset firms

The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) will commit $50 million to a blind-pool fund that Neuberger Berman is in the process of raising, and other So...

Three US firms win $120 mn mezzanine fund mandates from Korea fund

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has selected Crescent Capital Group, Falcon Private Equity and GoldPoint Partners to invest a total of...

Korea public officials’ fund picks $40 mn cat bond managers

Three private equity firms – LGT Capital Management, Leadenhall Capital Partners and Nephila Capital – have been chosen as the preferred managers of t...

[Interview] Korea police fund eyes EM debt; keen on networks with foreign funds: CIO

South Korea’s Police Mutual Aid Association (PMAA), a $2 billion savings fund, is interested in sovereign debt of emerging economies, and will put eff...

Korea Post put 1 trillion won into offshore property in past 3 yrs

Korea Post has invested a total of 998.6 billion won ($888 million) in overseas commercial buildings since 2013, the vast majority of which involved e...

Korea savings fund to buy $51 mn equity in property funds: report

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

Korea public officials’ fund to be anchor LP of PAG-led property debt fund

Asia-based alternative investment firm Pacific Alliance Group (PAG) is teaming up with a South Korean brokerage company to launch about a 200 billion ...

Starwood Energy to raise $200 mn from Korea to fund $760 mn US deal: report

(Updated to clarify the fund-raising is still underway, based on a comment from a source with knowledge on the matter) KB Asset Management, a unit ...

KIC sues Volkswagen over emission scandal on behalf of S.Korea govt

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), South Korea’s sovereign wealth fund, has lodged a lawsuit against Volkswagen on behalf of the South Korean governm...

Korea police fund picks CIO from outside; gives $90 mn mandates to 6 firms

South Korea’s police savings fund has appointed a former fixed-income head of Samsung Asset Management as its first chief investment officer fro...

Brookfield may raise $90 mn from Korea for property mezzanine fund

A real estate mezzanine fund of Brookfield Asset Management, for which the private investment firm is aiming to raise $2 billion globally, is expected...

Korea Post set to buy Natixis office building in Paris for $206 mn

Korea Post’s savings arm has been chosen as the preferred buyer of the headquarters building of France’s Natixis in Paris, in a deal worth 230 billion...

Korea Teachers’ Pension to invest $100 mn in Crescent Capital mezzanine fund

The Teachers’ Pension of South Korea will commit $100 million to a North America-focused, blind mezzanine fund to be launched by U.S.-based Crescent C...

Blackstone’s property loan fund raises $900 mn in Korea, beating funding target

Blackstone, the world’s largest real estate investment firm, has attracted 1 trillion won ($900 million) from South Korean institutional investors for...

TPG picks son of ex-Samsung vice chairman to lead Korea investment

TPG named Sanghoon Lee, an ex-Morgan Stanley executive and elder son of a former Samsung Electronics vice chairman and CEO, as the head of its South K...

Carlyle joins bids for Korea’ No.4 parcel delivery firm – sources

The Carlyle Group has recently embarked on due diligence of South Korea’s Logen Co. Ltd. for a possible acquisition, following another private equity ...

[RFP] Korea Post invites bids for $450 mn US first mortgage co-investment

Korea Post’s savings unit is seeking three global real estate fund managers to make joint investments in first mortgages of U.S. commercial assets for...

Korea military fund to put €40 mn into Macquarie’s Europe infrastructure fund

South Korea’s Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) will invest €40 million in Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 5 (MEIF5) that is aiming to rai...

[RFP] Korea Post seeks 3 management firms for overseas CLO investment

Korea Post’s savings unit announced a request for proposal on August 17 to select three asset management houses that will be in charge of setting up s...

Korea civil servants’ pension fund picks local firms for global stock, bond mandates

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

ABCP issues backed by Chinese bank deposits seen to top corporate bond sales in Korea

South Korean pension and savings funds are piling into short-term notes backed by time deposits at Chinese banks, lured by higher deposit rates from C...

Korea’s public pension funds to explore joint overseas, alternative investment – fin ministry

South Korea’s public pension funds, including the National Pension Service (NPS) and pension schemes for government officials and military personnel, ...