National Pension Service

National Pension Service (NPS) is South Korea’s public pension scheme, with 777 trillion won ($685 billion) in assets under management as of the end of July 2020. It is the world’s third-largest pension fund after Japan’s GPIF and Norway’s GPFG. NPS allocates 91.3 trillion won to alternative assets, or 11% of its portfolio, with overseas alternatives making up 55.7 trillion won, or 8%. NPS’ assets are forecast to increase to 1,000 trillion won by 2024, by when alternative assets are expected to expand to 14%.