![[ASK 2016 SUMMIT] NPS Slows Offshore Property Purchase; Calls For Customized Proposal From GPs](http://www.koreaninvestors.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Sang-Hyun-Yoo-NPS.jpg)
The global alternative investment head of the National Pension Service (NPS), Sang-Hyun Yoo, cautioned about the heightened competition and price spike in the global property market, and said that the…
A South Korean asset management firm is raising a €100 million ($110 million) fund to invest in the Pan-European Infrastructure Fund (PEIF) II of a Deutsche Bank’s unit, and the…
South Korea’s Hanwha Life Insurance Co. Ltd. has bought a 4.1% stake in U.S. Lending Club Corp., the world’s largest peer-to-peer (P2P) lender, for around 75 billion won ($67 million)…
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 South Korean institutions may participate…
Celleron Therapeutics Ltd., a cancer treatment developer founded by Oxford University professors, is poised to attract $26 million from South Korean and Chinese investors to fund phase II clinical trial…
The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has selected Crescent Capital Group, Falcon Private Equity and GoldPoint Partners to invest a total of $120 million in U.S. mezzanine funds, which are…
Three private equity firms – LGT Capital Management, Leadenhall Capital Partners and Nephila Capital – have been chosen as the preferred managers of the Public Officials Benefit Association’s (POBA) first…
![[Interview] Korea Police Fund Eyes EM Debt; Keen On Networks With Foreign Funds: CIO](http://www.koreaninvestors.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Doyoon-Lee-PMAA-CIO.jpg)
South Korea’s Police Mutual Aid Association (PMAA), a $2 billion savings fund, is interested in sovereign debt of emerging economies, and will put efforts to build networks with foreign institutional…
Korea Post has invested a total of 998.6 billion won ($888 million) in overseas commercial buildings since 2013, the vast majority of which involved equity purchases made jointly with other…
South Korea’s Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) will acquire 57 billion won ($51 million) worth of equity stakes in two domestic funds that snapped up overseas commercial buildings this…
