Korean Investors
[RFP] Korea scientists fund to pick $120 mn multi-asset SMA manager
Korea Scientists and Engineers Mutual-aid Association (SEMA) is planning to allocate around $120 million to a separately managed account (SMA) of multi-asset strategy, according to its request for proposal announced on Oct. 23. For the allocation ai
Oct 25, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung, Kyobo Life to buy $129 mn debt of US toll road from IFM Investors
Two of South Korea’s top three life insurers – Samsung and Kyobo – will buy $129 million debt backed by revenues of the Indiana Toll Road Concession C...
Oct 24, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Deutsche Bank resells $60 mn Transtelco debt to Korean credit cooperative
Deutsche Bank has resold $60 million in senior secured debt of Transtelco Inc., a fiber optic services provider in the US and Mexico, to MG Korean Fed...
Oct 23, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean investors buy $75 mn debt of Warburg Pincus-backed Hanoi hotel
A pool of South Korean pension and retirement funds have invested around 85 billion won ($75 million) in debt of a Warburg Pincus-backed, five-star ...
Oct 20, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean institutions to invest $53 mn to buy Tesco-leased UK warehouse
A consortium of South Korea’s Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMAA) and MG Non-Life Insurance Co. Ltd. will invest 60 billion won ($53...
Oct 20, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Dongbu insurance arms to commit $40 mn to farmland/timberland fund
Two insurance units of South Korea’s Dongbu Group will commit 45 billion won ($40 million) to a timberland and farmland fund managed by Boston-based...
Oct 19, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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NPS’ $600 mn RFP for local PE/VC funds receives tepid response
National Pension Service’s (NPS) recent invitation for investment proposals to domestic private equity and venture capital funds, which amounts to 650...
Oct 16, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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KIC CIO to speak in global real estate, infrastructure summit in Seoul
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) Chief Investment Officer Shinwoo Kang will give a keynote speech in a global real estate and infrastructure summit ...
Oct 12, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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PAG buys Seoul office building from POBA-led fund for $270 mn
Asia-based investment firm Pacific Alliance Group (PAG) has bought an office building in southern Seoul from a fund led by the Public Officials Bene...
Oct 10, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Three Korean investors to buy $87 mn debt backed by US resorts: report
Three South Korean institutional investors will buy 100 billion won ($87 million) worth of mezzanine debt secured on a portfolio of 15 water park reso...
Oct 02, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Macquarie may resell Endeavour Energy stake to Korean investors for $176 mn
Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) is reselling part of stakes in Endeavour Energy, one of Australia’s biggest public energy compan...
Sep 27, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea Post buys $600 mn US building jointly with California pension fund
Korea Post has signed a 680 billion won ($602 million) agreement to buy a Silicon Valley office campus used by a leading cybersecurity company in join...
Sep 25, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung Sec debuts in US solar farm debt deal with $67 mn underwriting
Samsung Securities Co. Ltd., a top South Korean brokerage company, has underwritten $66.7 million in senior debt to fund a solar power plant acquisiti...
Sep 25, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mirae Asset buys $48 mn mezzanine debt backed by FedEx-leased warehouses
Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. invested 54 billion won ($48 million) last week in mezzanine debt secured on two warehouses leased to FedEx Co...
Sep 22, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hana Financial to buy Japanese retail property for individual resale
Hana Financial Group, the parent company of KEB Hana Bank, will acquire a shopping center building and its surrounding land in a small Japanese city...
Sep 20, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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KEB Hana Bank arranges $300 mn aircraft portfolio finance for Avolon
KEB Hana Bank, a leading South Korean lender, has arranged $300 million lease financing for an aircraft portfolio of Avolon, in the first financing ar...
Sep 19, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Golub and Ares win $60 mn private debt mandates from Korea scientists fund
Korea Scientists and Engineers Mutual-aid Association (SEMA) has decided to make its first allocation to global private debt funds by committing $...
Sep 14, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Scientists fund, other Korean investors in $665 mn Japan solar power plant deal
Korea Scientists and Engineers Mutual-aid Association (SEMA) and other South Korean institutional investors will invest an aggregate 150 billion won (...
Sep 14, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean investors fund half of HNA’s $700 mn debt financing for Gategroup deal
Shinhan Investment Corp. and a South Korean private equity firm have provided $350 million in bridge loans to finance Chinese HNA Group’s $1.5 billion...
Sep 13, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean investors to provide $440 mn financing in their largest US power plant investment
Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. and NH Bank of South Korea’s national agricultural cooperative will underwrite an aggregate $400 million of debt ...
Sep 12, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mirova infrastructure fund may raise $266 mn from Korea: report
Mirova, part of France’s Natixis Asset Management, is likely to collect 200 billion won to 300 billion won ($177 million to $266 million) from South K...
Sep 11, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Goldman and KKR mezzanine funds seen to raise up to $1.14 bn from Korea
Goldman Sachs’s new mezzanine fund, which aims to raise $10 billion, is expected to gather an aggregate $800 million to $1 billion from South Korean i...
Sep 10, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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KIC head to move to Korea Export-Import Bank as CEO
Sung-soo Eun, the chief executive of Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), was nominated as head of the Export-Import Bank of Korea, about one and a...
Sep 07, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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KTB Asset’s real estate senior debt fund raises $106 mn from three Korean firms
KTB Asset Management Co. Ltd. has raised 120 billion won ($106 million) from three South Korean financial services firms for a blind-pool fund to inve...
Sep 07, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean insurers invest $118 mn in US power generation portfolio debt
Five South Korean insurance companies have invested $118 million in senior debt of a portfolio of six US thermal power facilities, which are expected ...
Sep 05, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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US Golub Capital’s $2 bn debt fund may raise over $40 mn from Korea
South Korean brokerage firm Shinhan Investment Corp. and a retirement savings fund have decided to commit $20 million each to a $2 billion private deb...
Sep 04, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Goldman taps retirement funds to resell $178 mn loan to Korea e-commerce firm
Goldman Sachs’ Special Situations Group (SSG), which invests in and lends to distressed companies, is in talks with South Korean retirement savings fu...
Sep 01, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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KIC to allocate $300 mn to ESG fund; to adopt stewardship code in January
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) will allocate around $300 million to an environment, social and governance (ESG) integrated fund and embrace stewar...
Aug 31, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean investors may own half of UK high-speed railway after UK firms’ resale
After the National Pension Service (NPS) agreed to buy a 30% stake in Britain’s High Speed 1 (HS1) for around 400 billion won ($355 million) in July, ...
Aug 29, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean insurers invest $160 mn in debt of Facebook-leased NY property
A group of South Korean insurance firms have invested 180 billion won ($160 million) in mezzanine debt secured on two interconnected buildings in New ...
Aug 28, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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