pension fund asset management

Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) of South Korea has named Huh Jang, former head of investment at DB Insurance Co. as its new chief inve...

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has increased its stake in South Korea's leading gaming company NCSoft Corp. to become its fourth-...

Korean individual investors injected 9.5 billion won ($7.9 million) in TIGER KEDI Innovator ESG30 ETF on Feb 8, an exchange-traded fund (ETF) trac...

Korea Post will increase its alternative investment from 13.6 trillion won ($11.3 billion) at the end-2021 to 16.7 trillion won ($13.9 billion) in 2...

Online shopping platform Queenit recently received 36 billion won ($30 million) from Kakao Ventures Corp., SoftBank Ventures Korea Corp. and more,...

South Koreans are continuing their rush to safer assets with the balance of bank deposits, money market funds (MMFs) and cash management accounts (C...

  Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund Public Investment Fund (PIF) has bought a 5% stake in online game developer Nexon Co., the gaming...

Korea Teachers’ Pension (KTP) has said the rate of return from its investment management in 2021 reached 12%, the highest ever since its inc...

South Korean AI solutions provider OnePredict is set to begin a 30 billion won ($25 million) funding round. The Seoul-based startup provides in...

Korea’s ABL Life Insurance Co. has participated in Everbright Overseas Infrastructure Investment Fund LP, a $460 million fund managed by Hon...

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., the two automaking units of Hyundai Motor Group, saw their combined auto sales in the US rise to their highest leve...

Daewoo Engineering & Construction Co. has said it signed a contract on Jan. 26. to develop the H1HH1 block in Starlake, a new urban town in no...

The pandemic has brought logistical real estate and infrastructure into the spotlight driven by long-term underlying e-commerce trends. It is advant...

Global infrastructure investment firm Antin Infrastructure Partners SA said on Jan. 25 it has appointed Michelle (Min Kyung) Maeng as its new Invest...

ICONIQ Capital, a US family office backed by Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has invested 50 billion won ($42 million) in Smartscore, a South ...

Ahead of the 20th presidential election slated for March 9, candidates from both parties have vowed to legislate and systemize digital assets if ele...

Plant-based food company Organica Corp. has attracted investment from China’s alternative investment firm CITIC Capital Holdings Ltd. This mar...

Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction Co., South Korea's power plant components supplier, signed a preliminary agreement on Wednesday to build Sa...

Stonebridge Ventures Inc., South Korea’s most profitable venture capital firm, plans to establish a fresh fund of $168 million, the largest in...

Mirae Asset Financial Group, South Korea’s capital market giant, is set to enter the digital asset business, starting with a digital asset cus...

Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) has named its former Financial Investment Department head Park Man-soo as its new chief investment officer,...

 Hana Alternative Assets Management Co. and a US asset manager acquired a tower of luxury multifamily housing assets in Seaport Boulevard, Bost...

The European Commission’s rejection of Hyundai Heavy Industries Co.'s proposed merger with crosstown rival Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine En...

Mirae Asset Global Investments Co.’s global equity-traded funds (ETFs) topped the 100 trillion won mark, for the first time in the South Korea...

WeMade Co., a South Korean video game developer, has come under criticism for the massive unnoticed selling of its cryptocurrency WEMIX, allegedly i...

The combined total assets of real estate investment trusts (REITs) in Korea surpassed 70 trillion won ($58.4 billion) as of the end-2021, 20 years a...

SK Pharmteco, a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for pharmaceuticals, is slated to raise 400 billion ($332.2 million) to 6...

CICC Capital, a private equity firm of China's largest investment bank China International Capital Corporation (CICC), will create funds with a comb...

Ssangyong Engineering & Construction Co. has raised 62.1 billion won ($51.6 million) in a rights issue from its largest shareholder Investment C...

EONE-DIAGNOMICS Genome Center Co. ( EDGC ) announced this week it would participate in AI Human Metaverse Project consortium – along with seven ...