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Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) will continue to expand alternative investments while strengthening its asset management skills by increasing d...

The Korea Economic Daily will host ASK 2022, or Alternative Investment Summit Korea 2022, at the Conrad Seoul hotel on May 18. More than 800 alterna...

Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) of South Korea posted a 8.61% rate of return in 2021, the pension fund announced on March 15. It has ear...

New York-based Morgan Stanley Private Equity is slated to sell its entire stake in Jeonju Paper Corp., South Korea's top newsprint producer, and its...

KKR was chosen as the best private equity firm by South Korean institutional investors, a survey shows. Blackstone, Macquarie Asset Management and Are...

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea posted a 10.86% rate of return in 2021, according to a preliminary data report by its investment man...

Korea Post will increase its alternative investment from 13.6 trillion won ($11.3 billion) at the end-2021 to 16.7 trillion won ($13.9 billion) in 2...

Korea Teachers’ Pension (KTP) has said the rate of return from its investment management in 2021 reached 12%, the highest ever since its inc...

 Hana Alternative Assets Management Co. and a US asset manager acquired a tower of luxury multifamily housing assets in Seaport Boulevard, Bost...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) aims to increase alternative investment to 25% of its total investment by 2025 as well as rank among the world's ...

Hana Alternative Assets Management Co. is looking for a buyer of Two Independence Square in Washington D.C., the NASA headquarters. Hana has selecte...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) posted a 7.6% rate of return as of October 2021, according to a preliminary data report by its in...

MG Korean Federation of Community Credit Cooperatives (KFCC) will gradually increase its alternative investment proportion from the current early 30...

South Korea’s Tiger Alternative Investors Co. has liquidated its structured fund backed by shares of US-based business development companies...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) saw as many as 10 professionals of its alternative investment division resign from the South Korean sovereign wea...

South Korea's largest insurance company Samsung Life Insurance Co. and state-run postal savings and insurance agency Korea Post’s insurance ...

“Music becomes Cashcow” is the slogan for Korea’s hottest startup of the year, Musicow, Inc., and cash cow it has been. Indus...

“The South Korean stock markets have barely risen since early this year, while the markets in Japan and Taiwan are hitting highs. I believe Ko...

The chief investment officers of 10 South Korean major limited partners (LPs), including pension funds, mutual aid associations and life insurance c...

South Korea’s major food company Pulmuone. Co. is slated to expand sales of its in-house developed meat alternatives in the US market. The foo...

SEOUL—Alphabet Inc.’s Google plans to continue charging South Korean app developers a service fee for in-app purchases, even as users fo...

The Teachers' Pension in South Korea has started direct investment in overseas stock markets this year and will further increase direct management t...

The Growing Opportunity of Sports, Media and Entertainment in Alternatives  Why is this industry attractive and where are you...

A number of clear trends will play out for alternatives in the future, notably digitization, customization, and values-based investing, Goldman Sach...

Korea Investment Corp. (KIC) plans to increase alternative investments to a quarter of its portfolio by 2027 from the current 16%, its CEO Jin Seoun...

The strong performance of traditional assets such as equities has resulted in a decrease in the proportion of alternative assets at Korea Investment...

The Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) will step up venture capital investments in North America to lift its long-term returns, the sovereign wealth...

Korea Post's savings arm earned an 8.45% return on investments in the first half of this year, broadly in line with the average rate of return repor...

SK Inc., the investment arm of South Korean conglomerate SK Group, and private equity firm STIC Investment Inc., have invested a combined 65 billion...

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top automaker, plans to develop alternative elements to automotive chips in preparation for a prolonged suppl...