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Profile and Biography

Lee Kyu-hong

Lee Kyu-hong Chief Investment Officer ,Teachers' Pension

He resigned from CIO in September 2023 Lee started his financial career by taking both sell-side and buy-side analyst roles. He has held multiple CIO roles at numerous asset management firms, during which he has accumulated broad experience in the traditional investment sectors such as stocks, bonds, quant trading (e.g. smart beta), multi-asset investing, as well as alternative sectors including real estate, infrastructure, PE and VC. Lee has been the CIO at Teachers’ Pension since October 2019. "The US will account for 60% of our new overseas alternative investments. There will be plenty of investment opportunities in the infrastructure and real estate sectors in the US and other developed countries," he said in an interview with The Korea Economic Daily in November 2021. The pension fund aims to increase the overseas alternative asset proportion to 21% of its AUM by the end-2025.

Education

Education
School Major Class
New York University MBA
Yonsei University BA in Business Administration

Experience

Experience
Organization Final title Period
Teachers' Pension CIO 2019 - Present
Ascendas Asset Management CEO 2018 - 2018
NH-Amundi Asset Management CIO 2013 - 2018
Eastspring Investments Korea CIO 2004 - 2013
DB Asset Management Head of Research 2002 - 2004
SG Securities Analyst 2001 - 2002
CLSA Analyst 1999 - 2001
Samsung Asset Management Analyst 1996 - 1999
Sunkyong Ltd. Marketing Associate 1991 - 1993

Major Investments

Investment experiences at NPS
Project name Asset class Region Closing date
Times Square Office Building Real Estate Seoul, Korea 2016
Parc 1 Tower Development Equity (Subordinated) Seoul, Korea 2016
Yuanta Securities Building Real Estate Seoul, Korea 2017
Sinansan Rail Line Development Equity (Senior & Subordinated) Seoul, Korea 2019