NPS alternative investments

South Koreans parked a record 350 trillion won ($259 billion) in cash-equivalents such as money market funds (MMFs) as they failed to find investmen...

Cho Man Chul, managing director and head of investment banking at Deutsche Bank in Korea, has resigned, according to people with knowledge of the ma...

South Korea’s household lending growth hit a five-month high in April as mortgage loans increased amid signs of a recovery in the property mar...

MedInTech Inc., South Korea's medical smart endoscopes startup, announced on Monday that it attracted a series B investment of 20 billion won ($14.6...

Korea Zinc Inc., South Korea’s and the world’s No. 1 lead and zinc smelter, will build its second research and development center, which...

Macquarie Group has named two executives at its Seoul-based real asset investment unit, which manages the main Kospi-listed Macquarie Korea Infrastr...

CJ Olive Young Corp., South Korea’s largest beauty store chain, will set up a subsidiary in Japan in the first half of this year to mark its f...

South Korean steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc. and banking conglomerate Shinhan Financial Group have invested a combined US$20 million in Australian g...

DeepX, South Korea's homegrown neural network and AI chip developer, announced on Friday that it finalized attracting an investment of 110 billion w...

South Korea will launch the country’s first alternative stock exchange Nextrade Co. in the first half of next year to enable stock trading for...

South Korean asset manager DSC Investment has formed the country’s largest-ever fund for venture capital secondaries to explore opportunities ...

South Korea's top online portal Naver Corp. announced on Wednesday that its startup nurturing organization D2SF (D2 Startup Factory) invested in the...

Korea Investment & Securities Co. enjoyed a record quarterly net profit on the course to become the country's most profitable brokerage house ...

Coupang Inc., South Korea’s No. 1 e-commerce platform facing fierce competition from Chinese rivals, dipped into the red in the first quarter,...

The United Arab Emirates is set to invest a maximum of $1 billion in South Korean startups via a joint venture, as a part of its mid- to long-term p...

Samsung Life Science Fund, managed by Samsung Group’s venture investment arm, has invested in US biotechnology firm Latus Bio Inc. during the ...

Woori Financial Group Inc., South Korea’s fourth-largest financial services group, has acquired Korea Foss Securities Co., paving the way for ...

Hyundai Motor Group, the world’s third-largest automaker, is set to spend nearly $1 billion on Motional, its loss-making self-driving joint ve...

The National Pension Service (NPS), South Korea’s state-run pension fund, is introducing a new simplified asset allocation guideline under whi...

Lotte Card Co., South Korea’s No. 5 credit card issuer, has injected $68 million into its Vietnamese unit to expand its business in the Southe...

South Korea’s SK Geo Centric Co. is reconsidering how much it will invest in a planned $1.3 billion waste plastic recycling complex project in...

Creditors to Taeyoung Engineering & Construction Co. (Taeyoung E&C) gave the go-ahead to a debt workout program for the cash-strapped South ...

There is potential distress in the U.S. multifamily housing sector today.  we believe there is a window of opportunity over the next 12-18 mont...

Seoul-based private equity firm STIC Investments is set to sell Coop Marketing, South Korea’s largest mobile coupon platform company that oper...

South Korea’s factory activity weakened in March on a fall in manufacturing output, stoking concerns about Asia’s fourth-largest economy...

South Korea's integrated IT solution consulting company Etech System attracted an investment of 180 billion won ($130 million) from private equity f...

SARAWAK, Malaysia – OCI Group, South Korea’s leading chemical and green energy conglomerate, is expanding its polysilicon facility in Ma...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) will select domestic general partners (GPs) to manage about 1.5 trillion won ($1.1 billion) worth...

Late last year, when the Korean won traded at 1,288 per dollar, most market analysts and economists predicted that the Korean currency would regai...

Hyundai Glovis Co. expects an improvement in earnings this year from last year after reporting better-than-expected sales and operating profit in th...