The Police Mutual Aid Association (PMAA) has become the latest savings fund in South Korea in shaving the interest rate applied to long-term contributions from its members, after its board…
The Police Mutual Aid Association of South Korea will post a public notice of a request for proposals this week to commit 100 billion won ($87 million) to blind funds,…
China Minsheng Investment Group, China's largest private-sector investment firm, is mulling an investment of 1.3 trillion won (US$1.13 billion) in Korea's SK Planet, the operating company of online shopping mall…
South Korean insurance companies have been raising investments in overseas investments by more than 50% since the start of this year and also considering buying foreign asset managers, as they…
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South Korean investors, led by the National Pension Service (NPS), have been ramping up overseas investments while trimming domestic portfolios, a move that prodded domestic brokerage firms to bolster overseas…
The Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) in South Korea is looking to overseas alternative assets to invest as much as 200 billion won ($173 million) this year, as the…
Asset management firm Brookfield has raised a combined $700 million from major South Korean institutional investors, including the Teachers’ Pension, for its upcoming $14 billion infrastructure fund, a local newspaper…
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), South Korea’s sovereign wealth fund managing $96 billion foreign exchange reserves, has recently named Kang Shin-woo, the former head of Hanwha Asset Management as its new…
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Incoming World Bank’s director of the investment management division, Heung-sik Choo, said that the international financial institution, which manages $130 billion of assets, needs to review its current investment horizon…
A consortium of South Korean institutional investors, led by Mirae Asset Global Investments, has recently closed a deal worth about $245 million to buy the headquarters building of online retail…
