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Samsung Group
Lee Kun-hee’s lavish art collection fuels debate on tax payment scheme
The late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee’s lavish art collection is driving South Korea’s art circle to pressure lawmakers to amend the cou...
Mar 04, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung mulls $17 billion Austin chip plant, seeks tax breaks
Samsung Electronics Co. is seeking tax breaks of $805.5 million from the US state of Texas in return for a new $17 billion chip plant, which the Sou...
Feb 05, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS divides global securities division into equity, fixed income
The National Pension Service has divided up its global public market division into Global Equity and Global Fixed Income divisions as part of a plan...
Jan 13, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung Group
Samsung heirs may face record-high $10 bn inheritance tax bill
The Samsung Group heirs, including Samsung Electronics Co.'s de facto leader Jay Y. Lee, may be looking at a record-high $9.9 billion inheritance ...
Dec 22, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Tax cuts, pandemic lift imported car sales in Korea
Imported car sales in South Korea are on track to post a record high this year, benefiting from consumption tax cuts aimed at stimulating personal s...
Dec 03, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
Korean govt urged to hike diesel tax, ban fossil fuel cars by 2035
South Korea should raise its tax on diesel to match the price of gasoline and phase out internal combustion engine cars by 2035 to tackle air pollutio...
Nov 24, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Interview
Construction workers' fund targets stable-income alternatives
South Korea’s Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association is chasing government-sponsored infrastructure and public private partnership (PPP) pr...
Nov 10, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Post Lee Kun-hee
Samsung heirs’ $9 bn tax bill may lead to share sale, weak control
The three children and the wife of Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee, who died on Oct. 25 at the age of 78, is expected to face inheritance taxes of ...
Oct 25, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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RFP
Korea Post plans $87 mn US fixed income investment
Korea Post’s insurance arm is planning to select two asset management companies for around 100 billion won ($87.4 million) in US fixed-income in...
Oct 15, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset allocation
NPS logs positive H1 return led by fixed incomes, alternatives
The National Pension Service eked out a 0.5% return on financial investments in the first half of this year, supported by solid gains from fixed-incom...
Aug 28, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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RFP
[RFP] POBA seeks two global fixed-income managers for $350 mn mandate
South Korea's Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) plans to allocate a combined $350 million to two global fixed-income investment companies, i...
Aug 20, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Patrizia
Europe’s residential property market to fare better than fixed income: Patrizia
Europe’s residential property market will likely continue to fare better than fixed-income assets on the prospect of interest rates remaining lo...
Aug 19, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension fund
NPS' 2019 investment return at 10-yr high on equities, fixed incomes
The National Pension Service (NPS) reported a preliminary 11% return on investments in 2019, its best annual result in a decade, supported by double-d...
Feb 12, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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NPS to double proportion of overseas fixed-income investment by 2024
The National Pension Service (NPS) will more than double the proportion of overseas fixed-income investment to around 10% by the end of 2024 by when g...
Jun 03, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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NPS appoints investment strategy head as new acting CIO
National Pension Service’s (NPS) investment strategy head Soo-Cheol Lee has assumed the role of acting chief investment officer of the $561 billion pe...
Jul 19, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
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NPS acting CIO offers to step down
National Pension Service’s acting chief investment officer In-Sik Cho tendered a resignation on July 4, according to an NPS source, which may leave fo...
Jul 04, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
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NPS in emergency system under acting CIO, global alternatives head
The National Pension Service (NPS) has begun running an emergency inspection system for its investment management department with the appointment of...
Jul 25, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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[RFP] Korea Post seeks overseas fixed-income managers for emerging sovereign bond fund
- On June 1, 2016, Korea Post’s insurance asset management bureau posts a request for proposal to invest in dollar-denominated sovereign bonds of emer...
Jun 03, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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[RFP] Korea Post seeks fixed-income managers for U.S. corporate bond investment
- Proposal submission due by June 7, 2016; final selection set for July 2016 - To pick 2 firms for publicly-offered funds with minimum $300 mln AUM...
May 26, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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