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Korea Investment, Samsung SRA to buy Manhattan building for $500 mn

Korea Investment, Samsung SRA to buy Manhattan building for $500 mn

Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and Samsung SRA Asset Management Co. Ltd. have teamed up to buy an office tower in Manhattan from JPMorgan&...

[RFP] Korea Post plans $200 mn global housing investment

Korea Post’s savings arm plans to select two global real estate managers to invest $200 million, or 200 million euros, in the housing market in the US...

KKR hires Macquarie Korea’s exec for infrastructure business

KKR hires Macquarie Korea’s exec for infrastructure business

KKR & Co. has hired a key investment manager of Macquarie Korea in a new hire of senior staff to expand Asia infrastructure business. Keith Kim, ...

Teachers’ Pension picks as CIO ex-Ascendas-Singbridge Korea head

Teachers’ Pension picks as CIO ex-Ascendas-Singbridge Korea head

South Korea’s Teachers Pension said on Sept. 5 that it has chosen as chief investment officer Kyuhong Lee, ex-CEO of Ascendas-Singbridge Korea, a Sing...

US gas stations deal secures $130 mn debt from Korea: report

US gas stations deal secures $130 mn debt from Korea: report

Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. committed $130 million to a subordinated debt on a portfolio of 190 gas stations in the US Midwest last wee...

Nuveen Real Estate buys Korea’s last-mile logistics facility

Nuveen Real Estate buys Korea’s last-mile logistics facility

Nuveen Real Estate, the investment arm of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America, has acquired a last-mile logistics center near Se...

Korea, China banks offer $120 mn loan on Chile LNG terminal stake deal

Korea, China banks offer $120 mn loan on Chile LNG terminal stake deal

The Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) and two Chinese banks have extended a syndicated loan of $120 million to fund a stake purchase in a liquefied natur...

KIC appoints ex-Korea Teachers’ investment chief as CIO

KIC appoints ex-Korea Teachers’ investment chief as CIO

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has appointed as chief investment officer ex-CIO of the Teachers’ Pension Dae-yang Park, the sovereign wealth fund ...

CVC to buy Korea’s No.2 hotel booking app in $300 mn deal

CVC to buy Korea’s No.2 hotel booking app in $300 mn deal

CVC Capital Partners is set to buy a controlling stake in South Korea’s No. 2 accommodation booking app operator and in separate talks with minority s...

Carlyle’s new credit fund draws $200 mn from Korea

Ten South Korean institutional investors have committed about $200 million to the Carlyle Group’s first credit opportunities fund which recently raise...

Hana Fin, CIC to set up $1 bn Korea-China cooperation fund

Hana Fin, CIC to set up $1 bn Korea-China cooperation fund

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...

Korea’s 1st logistics public fund unveiled for Amazon’s Europe facilities

Korea’s 1st logistics public fund unveiled for Amazon’s Europe facilities

IGIS Asset Management Co. Ltd. has launched South Korea’s first public fund investing in logistics centers, targeting to raise up to 245 billion won (...

Blackstone, Principal Asset win Korea Post’s $150 mn mandates

Korea Post has awarded two real estate debt investment mandates worth $150 million to the Blackstone Group and Principal Asset Management, its savings...

Korea Investment to buy 99-yr ownership of Brussels building

Korea Investment to buy 99-yr ownership of Brussels building

Korea Investment Management Co. will acquire a 99-year ownership of an office building in Brussels for 146 million euros ($165 million) in its second ...

Korea scientists fund appoints new CIO for two-year term

Korea scientists fund appoints new CIO for two-year term

The Korea Scientists and Engineers Mutual-aid Association (SEMA) has appointed Sungmoo Huh, a former alternative investment and strategy head of Seoul...

[RFP] Korea Post plans to invest $300 mn in real estate mezzanine debts

Korea Post’s savings arm plans to invest around $300 million in mezzanine tranches on commercial properties in the US and other developed countries in...

[RFP] Korea Post seeks direct lending debt managers for $200 mn mandate

Korea Post’s insurance unit plans to select two global private debt managers to invest $200 million in direct loans, it announced on April 15. Qualif...

Cosmetics firm tops list of Korea’s profitable PE deals

Cosmetics firm tops list of Korea’s profitable PE deals

The 300-billion-won ($263 million) equity investment in a South Korean cosmetics firm by a consortium of Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs in 2016 was th...

[RFP] Korea Post plans to invest $200 mn in PE secondary funds

Korea Post’s savings arm will select two global private equity funds to invest around $200 million in private equity secondary markets, according to i...

Corsair Infrastructure funds raise $231 mn from South Korea

Corsair Infrastructure funds raise $231 mn from South Korea

Corsair Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has raised a total of 263 billion won ($231 million) from South Korean institutional investors in new funds laun...

Brookfield raises $147 mn from Korea for US office portfolio: report

Brookfield raises $147 mn from Korea for US office portfolio: report

Brookfield Asset Management Inc. has secured $147.2 million in a mezzanine tranche from South Korea’s Kiwoom Asset Management Co. Ltd. on a US office ...

KIC, Korea Post to boost cooperation in global investment

KIC, Korea Post to boost cooperation in global investment

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has reached a tentative agreement with Korea Post to strengthen cooperation in global investment as the sovereign w...

[RFP] Korea Post plans to commit $200 mn to two distressed debt funds

Korea Post plans to allocate $200 million to two distressed commingled funds for target returns of 8% or above, according to its request for proposal ...

Korea Investment launches $50 mn retail fund for Milan office purchase

Korea Investment launches $50 mn retail fund for Milan office purchase

Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. is seeking to raise 55 billion won ($49 million) from individual investors to fund its 124 billion won ($11...

Blackstone to buy stake in Korea’s largest shopping mall

Blackstone to buy stake in Korea’s largest shopping mall

The Blackstone Group has agreed to buy a 31.85% stake in South Korea’s largest shopping mall from the US developer Taubman Centers Inc. which is selli...

[RFP] Korea Post Savings seeks infra fund houses for $200 mn mandates

Korea Post’s savings unit plans to select two blind-pool infrastructure funds with focus on developed countries to invest up to $200 million, accordin...

Invesco to build $186 mn modern logistics center in Korea

Invesco to build $186 mn modern logistics center in Korea

Invesco will put 208 billion won ($186 million) into a modern logistics center development near Seoul, betting on the fast-growing online delivery mar...

Korea Post to commit $50 mn to Adams Street’s VC fund: report

Korea Post to commit $50 mn to Adams Street’s VC fund: report

Korea Post’s insurance arm will commit $50 million to Chicago-based Adams Street Partners LLC for its first overseas venture capital investment,...

Morgan Stanley tops 2018 Korea’s M&A advisory firm list

Morgan Stanley tops 2018 Korea’s M&A advisory firm list

Morgan Stanley led South Korea’s merger advisory services market in 2018, accounting for 8.6 trillion won ($7.7 billion) worth of takeover deals, ...

Korea Investment to commit $18 mn from short-term debt to Blackstone

Korea Investment to commit $18 mn from short-term debt to Blackstone

Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd., one of aggressive cross-border institutional investors in South Korea, will commit 20 billion won ($18 mil...

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