Military Mutual Aid Association
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Corporate bonds
S.Korea's Jan. bond issues on track for record $6 bn
South Korean companies are ramping up their local bond issuances to finance expansion into low-carbon and contactless platform businesses, with stro...
Jan 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean SMEs
Kosdaq Listed Companies Association announces top Kosdaq blue chips
The Kosdaq Listed Companies Association of South Korea announced its top Kosdaq blue chips during its 13th annual award conference held on Dec. 16...
Dec 21, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
BTS becomes first Asian act to win top AMA honor
The world’s No. 1 boy band BTS became the first Asian act to take the prize for artist of the year at the American Music Awards, one of the to...
Nov 23, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
KDB opens VC in US to aid Korean startups' US entry
South Korea’s state-run bank Korea Development Bank (KDB) launched its venture capital (VC) operations in California's Silicon Valley on Nov...
Nov 17, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Hyundai-led autonomous industry association to launch in October
South Korea’s leading mobility company Hyundai Mobis Co. will be heading the country’s new industry association of autonomous driving ma...
Oct 12, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chief Executives
Korean military fund targets medium-risk global assets
The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), a South Korean retirement fund, is chasing medium-risk, medium-return assets in developed markets with a...
Sep 27, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Ruling party calls for BOK's active role to aid COVID victims
South Korea's ruling Democratic Party has called on the Bank of Korea (BOK) to take a more active role to aid pandemic-hit small business operators ...
Sep 09, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Advertising & Marketing
Hyundai-sponsored archers reign supreme with 9th-straight gold in Tokyo
Chung Euisun, Hyundai Motor Group Chairman and chair of the Korea Archery Association (KAA), was captured on TV July 25, watching the women’s ...
Jul 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Insurance
Kakao enters insurance sector for synergy with its online platforms
Kakao Corp.’s ambition to become an insurer is gradually becoming a reality. The platform giant’s application to start an insurance busi...
Jun 11, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
In the crosswinds of coal’s clean transition
The recent announcement by President Moon Jae-in that South Korea will stop funding coal-powered plants overseas and expand its decision to phase out ...
May 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Investors
Military Mutual picks ex-Lotte Non-Life CIO as investment chief
The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), an $11 billion savings fund for South Korean military officers and personnel, said on Monday it has name...
May 17, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chief Investment Officers
Ex-police fund CIO picked to lead Yellow Umbrella Mutual
Lee Do-yoon, a former chief investment officer of South Korea's Police Mutual Aid Association (PMAA), has been named as CIO of the Yellow Umbrella M...
May 04, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Korean military fund to double average investment size
South Korea’s Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) intends to nearly double its average investment size to 100 billion won ($88 million) as ...
Mar 30, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Korea’s military fund looking for new financial division chief
South Korea’s Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) is looking for the successor of its financial division chief Kim Jae-dong, whose extended...
Mar 04, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investments
Yellow Umbrella Mutual to deploy $135 mn to blind pool funds in 2021
South Korea's Yellow Umbrella Mutual Aid Fund will commit about 120 billion to 150 billion won ($108 million-$135 million) to blind pool funds of ve...
Feb 23, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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RFPs
Yellow Umbrella Mutual seeks Korea's bond managers for $550 mn mandate
The Yellow Umbrella Mutual Aid Fund, a $12 billion savings arm for South Korea’s small business owners, is looking to mandate four domestic fi...
Jan 08, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai, KTCU, Kamco launch $273 mn fund to aid auto parts makers
Hyundai Commercial Inc. and several local financial companies have set up a blind fund worth 300 billion won ($273 million) to provide liquidity to ...
Dec 18, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Interview
Yellow Umbrella Mutual Aid to bolster global PE, VC portfolios
The Yellow Umbrella Mutual Aid Fund, a $12 billion savings arm for South Korea’s small business owners, will diversify its fixed income-heavy po...
Nov 05, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
BTS may be allowed to delay military service to age 30
South Korea is likely to allow the seven members of boy band BTS to postpone their mandatory national military service by two years until the age of 3...
Oct 13, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Multi asset funds
Yellow Umbrella Mutual to invest $500 mn in global multi-asset funds
The Yellow Umbrella Mutual Aid Fund, a $12 billion savings arm for South Korea’s small business owners, has entrusted two Korean asset managers ...
Oct 05, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
[Interview] Real estate funds may bear brunt of Covid 19 in Q4: military fund
The coronavirus impact will likely spill over to the commercial real estate market around the fourth quarter of this year, with a spike in office vaca...
May 27, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investment
Military Mutual Aid extends financial division CIO’s term by one year
The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) has extended its financial division head’s term for another year to focus on the risk management asso...
Mar 27, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private debt
Yellow Umbrella Mutual commits $540 mn to overseas debt funds
Yellow Umbrella Mutual Aid Fund, a savings arm for South Korea’s small-sized business owners, has committed $540 million to overseas debt funds ...
Dec 07, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean military fund invests in UK motorway service chain
The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) has invested 40 billion won ($34 million) to buy a minority stake in Welcome Break, the UK’s second biggest...
Jun 12, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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[Interview] Korea military fund aims to cash in $700 mn bad assets within 3 yrs
The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) will liquidate half of its 1.6 trillion won ($1.4 billion) worth of non-performing assets by early 2021 and...
Oct 09, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean military fund to focus on stability in real estate investment
The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), with $9 billion in assets under management, will focus real estate investments on stability by pursuing fu...
Aug 02, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean military fund to commit $30 mn to two US venture capital FoFs
The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) will commit $30 million in aggregate to two US venture capital funds of funds in its first investment in a ...
Jun 02, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean military fund names equity head as financial division CIO
The Military Mutual Aid Association’s (MMAA) former equity head Jae Dong Kim was installed this month as its first chief investment officer chosen fro...
Apr 11, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean military fund to pick new CIO from within for first time
South Korea’s Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) will find a successor of the retiring Chief Investment Officer, Sang-ho Lee, inside its organizat...
Mar 05, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea military fund mulls investing in PDF, NPL fund in 2017: report
The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), South Korea’s $8 billion savings fund, is studying investing in offshore private debt funds (PDFs) and non...
Dec 20, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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