Police fund, 4 other Korean firms to put $100 mn in Emirates aircraft fund

The Police Mutual Aid Association and four other South Korean institutional investors will underwrite $100 million of mezzanine tranches in an aircraf...

Korean asset firm raises $79 mn to invest in Blackstone-owned Las Vegas hotel

A small-sized South Korean asset management firm, Hyundai Investments Co. Ltd., has raised a real estate fund to invest 93 billion won ($79 million) i...

Korean firm holds off on buying NASA building after Trump election shock

A South Korean asset manager has temporarily put on hold an acquisition of the NASA headquarters building in Washington D.C., after rising interest ra...

[Interview] NPS eyes equity stakes in foreign infrastructure firms: CIO

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...

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...

Korean VC firms invest in UK drug developer, first after Brexit

Celleron Therapeutics Ltd., a cancer treatment developer founded by Oxford University professors, is poised to attract $26 million from South Korean a...

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...

Korean brokerage firm to buy Novartis campus in Paris for $454 mn: report

Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. is set to buy an office building of Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis under construction in Paris for 5...

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...

Samsung’s investment firm to set up $270 mn US property mezzanine fund

A property investment arm of the Samsung Group will raise 300 billion won ($270 million) from South Korean insurance companies and pension funds in a ...

CVC set to buy Korean parcel delivery firm for about $300 mn

Baring Private Equity Asia has named CVC Capital Partners as the preferred buyer of South Korea’s No.4 parcel delivery company, which the Carlyle Grou...

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 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...

Korean firms complete $320 mn financing for Newark Energy Center of US

South Korean insurance firms and other institutions have committed a total of $250 million to a local fund set up to provide senior loans to Newark En...

Korean public officials’ fund picks mezzanine fund firms in closed bids

South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has preliminarily chosen three U.S.-based asset management firms of mezzanine funds in limit...

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...

Ex-NPS investment strategy head to lead non-equity portfolios of Korean asset firm

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...

[RFP] Korea fund for small firm owners solicits bids for $88 mn equity mandates

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...

Baring PEA in talks with CVC, Affinity to sell Korean parcel delivery firm

Baring Private Equity Asia (PEA) has resumed the sale process of South Korea’s No. 4 package delivery company, and authorized two private equity firms...

Korea firms hold off UK property deals; demand seen reviving after price drops – reports

Three to four South Korean institutions, including asset management firm Hyundai Investments, have put on hold a planned joint purchase of an office b...

Korean firms to raise $350 mn mezzanine fund for 10 Hudson Yards NYC - report

Two South Korean asset management firms will start to raise about 400 billion won ($346 million) in a mezzanine fund from this week to invest in 10 Hu...

Baring Asia’s Korean parcel delivery firm fails to draw final bidder; UPS walks away

The planned sale of a South Korean parcel delivery firm by Baring Private Equity Asia to a strategic buyer has fallen through, after the last shortlis...

[Interview] Korea teachers’ fund CIO: interested in equity stake in asset managers’ holding firms

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

POBA to pick 2 global infrastructure fund firms in June for $85 mln investment – report

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

NPS shortlists fund of hedge fund GPs for $1 bln mandate; to pick final 2 firms in Q3

- BlackRock, Blackstone, Grosvenor & UBS are on the shortlist - Hedge funds with big market share & established systems to be chosen prefer...

Game maker's holding firms renews bets on pet food market

NXC Corp., the holding company of South Korea's game developer Nexon Co., has acquired an Italian pet food maker for 27.8 billion won ($ ) CerereAgras...

NO EDIT, NO PUBLISHING. Trump-driven energy boom spurs Korean firms to hike US gas investments

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