Korean LPs commit over $94 mn to LaSalle’s $513 mn debt fund

Korean LPs commit over $94 mn to LaSalle’s $513 mn debt fund

South Korean pension and savings funds, including the Yellow Umbrella Mutual Aid Fund and the Korea Scientists and Engineers Mutual-aid Association (S...

BTS label Big Hit’s caginess upsets investors ahead of IPO bookbuilding

BTS label Big Hit’s caginess upsets investors ahead of IPO bookbuilding

Big Hit Entertainment Co., home to the seven-member boy band BTS, is set to hold its first official IPO-related conference for South Korean institutio...

S. Korea’s big companies rattled by retail investors’ growing influence

S. Korea’s big companies rattled by retail investors’ growing influence

South Korea’s big companies such as Samsung, LG and Hyundai often make shareholder-friendly moves to accommodate institutional investors, who fl...

Korean Air to lend $950 mn to US hotel unit for debt repayment

Korean Air to lend $950 mn to US hotel unit for debt repayment

Korean Air Lines Co. will provide $950 million in loans to its fully owned US hotel operator which has $900 million in debt maturing this month, the c...

Korea’s big data companies eye IPOs as investors flush with cash

Korea’s big data companies eye IPOs as investors flush with cash

Tech investors are set to be deluged with initial public offerings as South Korea’s big data companies are pushing to list their shares amid a d...

Hana Financial to fund Australia solar power project with $146 mn senior debts

Hana Financial to fund Australia solar power project with $146 mn senior debts

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. has secured A$200 million ($146 million) in senior loans to finance A$320 million solar power project in Australia ...

BOK to buy $4.2 bn in state bonds by year-end to stabilize debt market

BOK to buy $4.2 bn in state bonds by year-end to stabilize debt market

The Bank of Korea will buy state bonds worth 5 trillion won ($4.2 billion) directly from the market by the end of this year to stabilize the local deb...

Doosan Heavy shares rally as investors look beyond financial woes

Doosan Heavy shares rally as investors look beyond financial woes

Shares of Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co. Ltd., a South Korean power plant builder, jumped to their highest level in more than two year...

Longer-dated govt bond yields creep up as investors foresee more treasury sales

Longer-dated govt bond yields creep up as investors foresee more treasury sales

South Korea’s government bond yields are heading north despite the gloomy business outlook as institutional investors expect more government-iss...

Korean retail investors attracted to US growth stocks, now 10th Tesla owners

Korean retail investors attracted to US growth stocks, now 10th Tesla owners

South Korean retail investors, who turn their eyes overseas for higher returns, are heavily buying into US growth stocks amid growing fears of tech st...

Korean govt extends ban on short selling to appease retail investors

Korean govt extends ban on short selling to appease retail investors

The South Korean government has decided to extend the ban on short selling for another six months -- from September 16 to March 15, 2021 -- promp...

Korean Air seals $835 mn in-flight business sale to private equity firm

Korean Air seals $835 mn in-flight business sale to private equity firm

Korean Air Lines Co. Ltd. signed a definitive agreement on August 25 to sell its in-flight duty-free and meal service business to South Korea’s ...

Record-high Q2 Korean household debt heats up property, stock markets

Record-high Q2 Korean household debt heats up property, stock markets

South Korea’s household debt surged to the highest level in its history in the second quarter of the year, led by soaring mortgage loans and sec...

Korean retail investors' offshore stock purchases hit record high in July

Korean retail investors' offshore stock purchases hit record high in July

South Korean individuals purchased a record amount of shares in overseas markets last month as they looked beyond the local bourse for bigger returns....

[Updated RFP] Korea Post seeks two global debt fund houses for $170 mn mandate

[Updated RFP] Korea Post seeks two global debt fund houses for $170 mn mandate

(On August 25, Korea Post extended the deadline for submitting proposals for its global debt investment mandate to August 31, 2020 from August 19, 202...

[RFP] Korea Post plans to invest $200 mn in real estate mezzanine debt

[RFP] Korea Post plans to invest $200 mn in real estate mezzanine debt

Korea Post’s insurance arm is looking for one or two real estate debt managers to invest $200 million in mezzanine debt, for which it is plannin...

Korean investors jointly set up a $770 million SPC to invest in KKR funds

Local institutional investors have injected $500 million (600 billion won) into a special purpose company to invest in diverse funds managed by privat...

Debt-laden Doosan Group puts Doosan Infracore up for sale to secure cash

Debt-laden Doosan Group puts Doosan Infracore up for sale to secure cash

Doosan Group kicked off the sale process for Doosan Infracore, the group’s construction equipment builder, with the sale manager ...

[Survey] Korean investors upbeat on infrastructure, aircraft leasing in 2017

[Survey] Korean investors upbeat on infrastructure, aircraft leasing in 2017

Major South Korean pension funds and insurers are planning to expand offshore infrastructure portfolios next year, and zooming in on aircraft finance ...

Ardian looking to expand Asia private equity investment

Ardian looking to expand Asia private equity investment

Paris-based Ardian is looking to increase private equity investments in Asia, setting its sight on technology, media, online service and healthcare se...

KIC forms $400 mn joint venture with NongHyup for private equity co-investment

KIC forms $400 mn joint venture with NongHyup for private equity co-investment

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has announced a $400 million joint venture with NongHyup, or the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, to...

Korean investors quickest to jump into new TALF fund: EMP Belstar

Korean investors quickest to jump into new TALF fund: EMP Belstar

South Korean institutional investors have become the world's first group of investors in a fund related to the Federal Reserve's new Term Asset-B...

KIC promotes private equity head to lead alternative investment

KIC promotes private equity head to lead alternative investment

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has appointed private equity head James Jongho Kim as alternative investment group head and deputy chief investment...

South Korean investors to put $580 mn in TALF fund

South Korean investors to put $580 mn in TALF fund

Hyundai Investments Co. Ltd. has collected $580 million from South Korean institutional investors to invest in a fund that buys securities with borrow...

NPS boosts private debt and venture capital investment in Q1

NPS boosts private debt and venture capital investment in Q1

The National Pension Service (NPS) has beefed up investments in private debt and venture capital funds by adding Antares Capital Advisers and Insight ...

Foreign investors’ holding of South Korean bonds at record high of $115 bn

Foreign investors’ holding of South Korean bonds at record high of $115 bn

Foreign investors continued to buy South Korean bonds such as treasuries and monetary stabilization bonds for a fourth consecutive month in April, wit...

Mirae Asset to sell up to $600 mn global debt for investment

Mirae Asset to sell up to $600 mn global debt for investment

Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd. plans to issue a global bond worth $500 million to $600 million as early as April for the third year of offshore debt sale...

Macquarie seeks co-investors for over $2 bn Korean gas firm purchase

Macquarie seeks co-investors for over $2 bn Korean gas firm purchase

Macquarie’s investment unit may attract Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC and other limited partners of its Asia infrastructure fund a...

Yellow Umbrella Mutual commits $540 mn to overseas debt funds

Yellow Umbrella Mutual commits $540 mn to overseas debt funds

Yellow Umbrella Mutual Aid Fund, a savings arm for South Korea’s small-sized business owners, has committed $540 million to overseas debt funds ...

[RFP] Construction workers’ fund to commit $25 mn to global infra debt fund

The Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) plans to commit $25 million to a global infrastructure blind-pool fund investing in senior or m...

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