[Interview] Korean office building market set for further growth: Savills

South Korea’s office building market is poised to continue its record-breaking growth, buoyed by heavy money inflows from overseas investors and the c...

Korean brokerages provide $115 mn financing backed by rolling stock in Spain

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. and NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. have extended 99 million euros ($115 million) in a three-year loan to f...

Vietnam’s Vingroup raises $400 mn from new stock sale to Hanwha Asset

Vingroup JSC, Vietnam’s largest conglomerate, has issued convertible preferred shares to raise $400 million in a private placement to South Korea’s Ha...

Hana Financial buys US REIT’s preferred stocks for $125 mn

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. has bought new preferred shares issued by a US real estate investment trust company for $125 million, ahead of the ...

NPS to raise global stock portion by end-2022

The National Pension Service (NPS) will further increase the proportion of overseas investment with a higher share of global equities, according to it...

Veteran Korean real estate investor sees growth in Seoul office building market

Low foreign ownership, swelling assets at South Korean institutional investors and small office space per worker all point to growth potential for...

NPS’ global alternative head, global public market head offer to resign

Two key fund managers of South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) have offered to step down earlier this month, joining in 25 other employees ...

Korea teachers’ fund eyes CLOs, PEFs as market volatility seen up in 2017: report

Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU), the largest savings fund in South Korea, sets its eyes on offshore collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), priva...

Europe banks return to Korean brokerage market; target debt, alternative products

A growing asset size of South Korean institutional investors and soaring demand for overseas alternative assets have been prodding foreign banks, incl...

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...

NPS’ stock concentration in Samsung, top conglomerates deepens in H1, 2016

The units of the Samsung Group made up a quarter of the National Pension Service’s (NPS) Korean stock holdings in value in the first half of this year...

[RFP] Korea’s GEPS seeks $170 mn fund of funds managers of global stocks, bonds

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) posted a notification on July 1 to invite bids for a 100 billion won ($87 million) mandate f...

[Korean Money Going Abroad] NPS to slash net increase in Korean stock investment by 95% in 2017

South Korean investors, led by the National Pension Service (NPS), have been ramping up overseas investments while trimming domestic portfolios, a mov...

[Interview] Korea firemen’s fund eyes overseas structured bonds, office buildings in advanced markets

Korea Fire Officials Credit Union, managing $520 million in assets, will boost its exposure to structured bonds and alternative assets in developed ma...

[Interview] POBA CIO says keen on brownfield infrastructure in advanced markets; eying farmland and timberland

- Plans to allot 480 billion won ($410 million) to new alternative investments in 2016: alternative investments may top 50% of total AUM - Interest...

Graphene Square eyes global market with the next ‘wonder material'

Graphene is often called a “wonder material” because of the extraordinary properties that come from its nano-scale structure. It is an exc...

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...

Polarization in Korean IPO markets delays PEF exits

delaying PE firms' IPOsSimone...

K-pop stars earn huge capital gain from stock options

Executives and employees of top K-pop agencies such as SM Entertainment Co. and YG Entertainment Inc. are expected to earn huge capital gains from the...